Unloading Bananas, Mobile, Alabama, circa 1906
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Artifact Overview
Bananas arrived on grocery store shelves via a transportation system controlled by competing fruit companies and their government allies. Refrigerated railcars moved the crop from Central American plantations to ships bound for U.S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico. This photograph shows dockworkers in Mobile, Alabama, unloading bunches of bananas -- each weighing around 86 pounds -- from a ship's hold and moving them to a warehouse.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1906
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
37.102.P.030981
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Sepia (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 4.875 in
Width: 7.5 in
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