On the beach at Mayagues Porto Rico – 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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This rare historic photograph captures On the beach at Mayagues Porto Rico in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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On the beach at Mayagues Porto Rico
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A stereograph card from 1900 places viewers on the beach at Mayagüez, the port city on Puerto Rico's western coast, with palms framing the shoreline. The card's copyright note names John Rogers, the American sculptor known for his popular plaster figure groups, who held the copyright claim on the image. Stereographs like this were viewed through a hand-held stereoscope, which fused two slightly offset photographs into a single three-dimensional scene. The island had recently come under United States control after the Spanish-American War, and cards such as this one gave mainland American audiences a glimpse of newly acquired territory.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | 2477 U.S. Copyright Office. · Rogers John 1829-1904 sculptor copyright claimant. |
| Subjects | Palms--Puerto Rico--Mayagüez--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271602 |
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