Farming with oxen
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 |
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