Irrigating the fields for sugar-cane growing, Peru, South America.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.29
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting farm workers irrigating a furrowed field in Peru. 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: (13) 9235 Irrigating plains otherwise sterile and planting sugar-cane on a farm in Santa Clara, Peru . 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 printed in black ink: On the top margin written in English; (1) Andean Region (School Position) . Below that is the title of the picture: 9235 Irrigating the fields for sugar-cane growing, Peru, S.A. . 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, photographer and publisher