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Making tortillas, Salvador, C.A. – Vintage Print

Making tortillas, Salvador, C.A., c1905. — historic photograph
Making tortillas, Salvador, C.A., c1905.. 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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Hand-making tortillas is the subject here, with the caption placing the scene in Salvador, Central America. Tortillas were, and remain, a daily staple of Salvadoran cooking, usually shaped by hand from ground maize dough and cooked on a flat griddle.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 20503. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 807 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152711

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