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Fruit transportation. Tela Railroad Company. Picking up another car of fruit, Honduras – Antique Print

Fruit transportation. Tela Railroad Company. Picking up another car of fruit, Honduras, 1948 Oct. — historic photograph
Fruit transportation. Tela Railroad Company. Picking up another car of fruit, Honduras, 1948 Oct.. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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The Tela Railroad Company is shown picking up another car of fruit in Honduras, a detail that sets this view apart from general scenes of freight trains. The Tela Railroad was a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company, and its line carried fruit from plantations on the northern coast to the port at Tela for shipment abroad. Published in the company's magazine, Unifruitco, in October 1948, the photograph shows how the firm chose to present its everyday shipping work to its own readers.

Created / published1948 Oct.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesNo. 1092F. Published in: Unifruitco, Oct. 1948, p. 18.
SubjectsTela Railroad Company. Railroad freight cars--Honduras--1940-1950. Shipping--Honduras--1940-1950. Fruit industry--Honduras--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181898

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