Title	Farming with oxen
Contributor	Keystone View Company
Note	Printed on front: "Keystone View Company, Manufacturers, Publishers, Copyrighted, Made in U.S.A.; Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England. 9072 A farm scene, Cuba." Printed on verso: "This farm scene is typical of most of Cuba outside of the sugar plantations. Oxen are more widely used for farm animals than horses, because they can stand the climate better. To what kind of plow are the oxen hitched? These plows are not seen so much as formerly, but in many rural districts they are still used. Notice the two-wheeled cart at the left. This is the type used generally for hauling all kinds of products. It is even utilized on some of the sugar plantations for hauling sugar cane to the 'central'. In such rude thatched huts as these, a large proportion of the country and village people live. Even on many of the plantations, the laborers live in a village of thatched huts. The ordinary agricultural laborer is paid from thirty to forty cents a day. The farmer who does not work on a sugar plantation raises corn, and sweet potatoes and other vegetables for his family. Any surplus is taken to the nearest village or city market. Along the roads, people may be seen taking vegetables and fruits to market in carts or baskets on the backs of donkeys. The great majority of the people are very poor; they barely make a living on their little farms."
Subject	Farms Oxen Country life Farm life Dwellings -- Cuba
Genre	Stereographs Photographs
Coverage Temporal	1890-1899
Coverage Spatial	Cuba
Physical Description	1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)
Language	eng
Repository	University of Miami. Library. Cuban Heritage Collection
Collection Title	Cuban Photograph Album Collection
Collection No.	CHC0337
Container	Box No. 18 Folder No. 3
Rights	This material is in the public domain in the United States. For additional information, please visit: http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/copyright.html
Standardized Rights Statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Digital ID	chc03370000460017001
Type	Still Image
Format	image/tiff
Archive	chc03370000460017001.tif

Farming with oxen

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