Faga Togo, Samoa -- Dredge at new wharf – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Faga Togo, Samoa -- Dredge at new wharf. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Faga Togo, Samoa -- Dredge at new wharf
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Fagatogo, the village on the south shore of Tutuila in American Samoa, is the setting for this view of a dredge working at a new wharf. The United States Navy administered the islands from the early 1900s, and harbor work such as dredging and wharf building was central to making Pago Pago a coaling and supply station for ships crossing the Pacific. The photograph comes from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency whose glass negatives record a wide range of news and events. The place name and date come from unverified caption information, so the exact year of the work is uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,710 × 4,097 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24503 |
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