Bread fruit – Historic Print
![Bread fruit, [between 1850 and 1900(?)] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/df/df84004a265a-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Bread fruit in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Few fruits on a 19th-century collecting card carry as much history as the breadfruit, a starchy tropical fruit native to the Pacific that was carried to the Caribbean in the late 1700s as a food crop. This color lithograph pairs the fruit with Black children, a combination common in the period's trade and advertising cards, which often relied on racial stereotypes. The card is dated only approximately, between 1850 and 1900, and its imagery reflects the attitudes of its era rather than the lives of the people shown.
| Created / published | [between 1850 and 1900(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Collecting cards 1850-1900.Lithographs Color 1850-1900. |
| Subjects | Fruit--1850-1900. Blacks--Children--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,151 × 1,463 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216558 |
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