Gathering Cacao Pods in Costa Rica.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
86 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.6
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting The Gathering of cacao pods 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: - . 6448- Gathering Cacao Pods - One of Costa Rica most valuable products - Near Port Limon 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 A long description of salmon fishing which does not relate to the image, title written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish 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