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Porto [i.e., Puerto] Rico, West Indies, 328: Ox cart passing Manati River – Historic Photo Reproduction

Porto [i.e., Puerto] Rico, West Indies, 328: Ox cart passing Manati River, [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Porto [i.e., Puerto] Rico, West Indies, 328: Ox cart passing Manati River, [between 1910 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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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Few photographs in this collection capture daily rural life as plainly as this one, which shows an ox cart on the road near the Manatí River in Puerto Rico. The National Photo Company, a Washington firm that produced and sold views of American places and possessions in the early twentieth century, made thousands of such scenes, and this glass negative is dated to roughly 1910 to 1920, a period when the island had been under United States control for little more than a decade. Ox carts, known locally as carretas, were the traditional way to haul sugar cane, coffee, and other goods across the island's countryside, so the picture records a working tradition as much as a landscape.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. A. Moscioni, Photo Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,836 × 5,329 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-260186

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