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[United Fruit Co. activities, 1948]: New Orleans office building of Unifruitco – Vintage Photo Print

[United Fruit Co. activities, 1948]: New Orleans office building of Unifruitco — historic photograph
[United Fruit Co. activities, 1948]: New Orleans office building of Unifruitco. Historic photograph from the New Orleans collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[United Fruit Co. activities, 1948]: New Orleans office building of Unifruitco comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[United Fruit Co. activities, 1948]: New Orleans office building of Unifruitco

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The record identifies this 1948 photograph as the New Orleans office building of the United Fruit Company, listed under the firm's shorthand "Unifruitco." New Orleans was one of the busiest gateways for the fruit trade, where ships carried bananas north from Central American plantations and railroads moved them inland. The caption card's tags mention Honduras, shipping and fruit transportation, which match the company's operations, though the card is old and its details are unverified. Office views like this one show the business side of an enterprise that shaped port cities across the Gulf and Caribbean.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1948]
SubjectsPhoto by United Fruit Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads--Foreign; Shipping; Honduras--S- J- J-; Fruit--Transportation; United Fruit Company; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,216 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135908

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