Aibonita Heights from the Military Road Puerto Rico – Antique Photo Print
(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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of Aibonita Heights from the Military Road Puerto Rico. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Aibonita Heights from the Military Road Puerto Rico
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Aibonita Heights, seen from the Military Road, shows a mountain town in central Puerto Rico and the rugged highland route that climbed past it. The Military Road, built under Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century, was an important link across the island's interior between its northern and southern coasts. The card dates to 1900, two years after the United States took control of the island following the Spanish-American War, and was made by R.Y. Young, who registered it for copyright. Its paired images were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a sense of depth, and the riders on horseback in the scene reflect how much travel in these hills still depended on animals.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | D9921 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.Y. Young. · Greenough Horatio 1805-1852. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--Puerto Rico--Aibonita--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,295 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271697 |
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