Gathering bananas at the famous Cedar Grove plantation - under the sunny skies of Jamaica
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.14
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting gathering bananas at the famous Cedar Grove plantation - under the sunny skies of Jamaica. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: 8138 - Gathering bananas at the famous Cedar Grove plantation - under the sunny skies of Jamaica Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood U-88631 In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso is a description of growing & harvesting bananas (from notes of Travel No37 Copyright 1906 Underwood & Underwood. Gathering bananas on a large plantation in Jamaica - in English French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Provenance
The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999 part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenon's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-86
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher