Bridgetown, Barbadoes, (sugar mill) – 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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Step back in time with Bridgetown, Barbadoes, (sugar mill), a historic photograph rich in period 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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Bridgetown, Barbadoes, (sugar mill)
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Few places in the British Caribbean were shaped by sugar as strongly as Barbados, and this glass negative from the Bain News Service shows a sugar mill in the island's capital and main port, Bridgetown. Sugar dominated Barbadian land and labor from the seventeenth century into the modern era, first through enslaved workers until emancipation in 1834 and then through wage and indentured labor. The Bain News Service, a New York agency active in the early 1900s, supplied news photographs to newspapers, but this record gives no date, and its location label is unverified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,816 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24000 |
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