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Filipino farmers preparing fields for rice, near Manila, Philippines – Antique Wall Art

Filipino farmers preparing fields for rice, near Manila, Philippines, Meadville, Pa. : Standard Scenic Company, c1906. — historic photograph
Filipino farmers preparing fields for rice, near Manila, Philippines, Meadville, Pa. : Standard Scenic Company, c1906.. 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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A window into the past: Filipino farmers preparing fields for rice, near Manila, Philippines, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Filipino farmers preparing fields for rice, near Manila, Philippines

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Rice fields outside Manila make the subject here, and the stereograph's double image gives the scene an unusual depth for its time. The card was issued by the Standard Scenic Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, around 1906, part of a large commercial trade in stereoviews that carried views of distant lands into American parlors. Such cards were viewed through a hand stereoscope, and the pair of photographs fused into a single three-dimensional scene. Worth noticing is the work itself: farmers readying wet paddies by hand, a labor-intensive routine that the card presents as a picture of everyday life in the Philippines during the early American colonial period.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. : Standard Scenic Company, c1906.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 779 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157914

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