Comerio – Vintage Print
![Comerio, [ca. 191-] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/81/81bd4c90c9e4-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Comerio, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Comerio is a hill town in the interior of Puerto Rico, far from the coastal cities that usually appear in early photographs of the island. The caption card dates the picture only to around the 191- decade, which places it in the years after the United States took control of Puerto Rico in 1898, when American officials and photographers documented the island's towns, roads, and people. Interior communities like Comerio relied on coffee, sugar, and small-scale farming, and the surrounding hills shaped how their settlements grew. Because the date is uncertain, the scene is best read as a general view of rural Puerto Rico in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | [ca. 191-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: P.R.--Comerio--ca. 191-; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,097 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151946 |
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