Argentina - Buneos Aires – Vintage Print
![Argentina - Buneos Aires, [between 1890 and 1923] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a539100eac96-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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This rare historic photograph captures Argentina - Buneos Aires in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Argentina - Buneos Aires
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The caption card's geography note points to the docks at Buenos Aires, the port on the Río de la Plata. In these decades the city was expanding its harbor to handle a fast-growing trade in grain, wool and chilled and frozen beef, much of it bound for Europe, and much of the investment and engineering behind the work came from Britain. Frank and Frances Carpenter, a husband-and-wife team who traveled widely and lectured on foreign lands, gathered photographs like this one to document commerce abroad. Views of working waterfronts such as this were meant to show how a rising South American economy moved its goods to world markets.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1923] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1930. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Argentina. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geog.; Docks. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,199 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158748 |
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