Cultivated Bamboo - a Plantation at Nanking, China – Vintage 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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This historic photograph of Cultivated Bamboo - a Plantation at Nanking, China brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cultivated Bamboo - a Plantation at Nanking, China
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Bamboo grown in managed rows, rather than wild stands, is the subject here, with the caption placing it near Nanking, the city on the Yangtze that was once a capital of the Ming dynasty. Underwood & Underwood, the American firm that issued this stereograph around 1900, sold views like this to households that peered at them through hand stereoscopes, offering armchair travel to distant places. Bamboo was a versatile crop in southern China, used for scaffolding, building frames, paper, and household goods, so a plantation like this would have been a working landscape rather than a scenic oddity. The record's details come from an old caption card and are unverified, so the exact location and date should be treated with some caution.
| Created / published | c1900 Oct. 26. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | D20582 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bamboo; China--Nanking; China--Misc.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,407 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130570 |
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