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Sugar mill, St. Croix, West Indies – Historic Reproduction

Sugar mill, St. Croix, West Indies, c1905. — historic photograph
Sugar mill, St. Croix, West Indies, 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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This rare historic photograph captures Sugar mill, St. Croix, West Indies in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Sugar mill, St. Croix, West Indies

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This stereograph shows a sugar mill on St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, at a time when sugar still shaped the island's economy and landscape. The card was published by the Keystone View Company, a major American maker of stereoscopic views, and was meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave the mill buildings and surrounding ground a sense of depth. St. Croix was then a Danish colony, and it did not pass to the United States until 1917. The record's caption data is unverified, so the exact estate and date should be treated with some caution.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 6247. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 742 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159475

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