Title	Workers picking bananas in a Cuban plantation
Creator	Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd)
Note	Written on front: "9980 - Laborers on a banana plantation, Cuba"; Written on verso: "This picture represents laborers handling fruit. We see a tropical splendor in the vegetation that is fascinating to a northern eye. The banana grows best on the lowlands near the sea and along the river banks. The preparation of a banana farm is an interesting sight. The forest is first cleared away, and the cuttings planted. In six months the rows are cleaned out, and in twelve months the first crop is obtained. The tree reaches a height of ten or fifteen feet, while the leaves are ten feet long and two feet wide. Some of the branches grow to an enormous size, a single cluster frequently weighing eighty pounds. To the owner, the shipment of his fruit is the most interesting part of the work. The productiveness of the banana is wonderful. Within a few years the increase of the industry of shipping bananas into the United States has been enormous"
Subject	Workers Banana Crops Plantations -- Cuba Cuba
Genre	Stereographs
Publisher	Keystone View Company
Date	1900
Coverage Temporal	1900-1910
Coverage Spatial	Cuba
Physical description	1 b&w photograph; 9 x 18 cm
Language	eng
Repository	University of Miami Libraries. Cuban Heritage Collection.
Collection Title	Ramiro A. Fernández Collection
Collection No.	CHC5260
Container	Box No. 4; Folder No. 1; Folder Title: Stereographs: Keystone View Company; Folder Date: 1890s
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Digital ID	chc52600003630001001
Date created	2012-04-05