Breadfruit trees, in a grove, near Port Limon, Costa Rica
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.16
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting Breadfruit trees, in a grove near Port Limon, Costa Rica 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: Breadfruit trees, in a grove near Port Limon, Costa Rica Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. 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 Breadfruit and processing it for food. 6449 (from notes of Travel No40 Copyright 1907 Underwood & Underwood.) Breadfruit trees, in a grove near Port Limon, Costa Rica - 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