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[A Sugar cane plantation, Oahu] – Historic Reproduction

[A Sugar cane plantation, Oahu], [betweem 1906 and 1916] — historic photograph
[A Sugar cane plantation, Oahu], [betweem 1906 and 1916]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with [A Sugar cane plantation, Oahu], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A sugar cane plantation on Oahu, with its fields and harvest work, is the subject here, which places the picture in Hawaii's plantation economy at the start of the twentieth century. By the 1900s, sugar was the dominant industry on the islands, and large plantations relied on a workforce recruited from Japan, China, Portugal, the Philippines and elsewhere, while cane was cut by hand and hauled to nearby mills. The record dates the print to between 1906 and 1916 and gives no photographer's name, so it is best read as a document of the labor and landscape of that period. Cane fields and harvesting crews are a recurring theme in photographs of the era, and this view adds to that record of agricultural work.

Created / published[betweem 1906 and 1916]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1920.
SubjectsSugar plantations--Hawaii--Oahu--1900-1920. Harvesting--Hawaii--Oahu--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169615

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