Harvesting the Cocoanuts, Florida, U.S.A.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.27
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting the harvesting of coconuts in Florida, USA. showing an African-American man standing next to some coconut palm trees. The man wears a brimmed hat, a white shirt, trousers and braces and holds a shovel over his shoulder.The ground is covered with coconuts. 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: 5701 - Harvesting the Cocoanuts, Florida, U.S.A. Copyright 1891 by George Barker. 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 printed in black ink: Harvesting the Cocoanuts; Florida.' in English French German Italian Swedish Spanish and Russian
Provenance
Part of 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 Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, publisher