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- Stevedore Pay Day, Banana Docks, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1905 -
- circa 1905
- Collections - Artifact
Stevedore Pay Day, Banana Docks, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1905
- Unloading Bananas, Mobile, Alabama, 1895-1910 - 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 plantations in Central America to ports in the Gulf of Mexico. Steam vessels, supplemented with sails, transported bananas across the Gulf to U.S. ports. This photograph shows dockworkers in Mobile, Alabama, unloading the precious cargo.
- 1895-1910
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Unloading Bananas, Mobile, Alabama, 1895-1910
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 plantations in Central America to ports in the Gulf of Mexico. Steam vessels, supplemented with sails, transported bananas across the Gulf to U.S. ports. This photograph shows dockworkers in Mobile, Alabama, unloading the precious cargo.
- Unloading a Banana Steamer, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1905 -
- circa 1905
- Collections - Artifact
Unloading a Banana Steamer, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1905
- Loading a River Packet during High Water, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 23, 1903 -
- March 23, 1903
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Loading a River Packet during High Water, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 23, 1903
- A Mississippi Steamboat Landing, 1900-1906 -
- 1900-1906
- Collections - Artifact
A Mississippi Steamboat Landing, 1900-1906
- Postcard, "Mobile, Ala. Unloading Bananas," 1905 -
- March 09, 1908
- Collections - Artifact
Postcard, "Mobile, Ala. Unloading Bananas," 1905
- A Mississippi River Landing, Memphis, Tennessee, July 1906 - African-American workers carry cargo from horse-drawn wagons onto waiting steamboats. This 1906 photograph was taken at Memphis, Tennessee, along the Mississippi River. Steamboats were still an important freight and travel option into the early 20th century.
- July 01, 1906
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A Mississippi River Landing, Memphis, Tennessee, July 1906
African-American workers carry cargo from horse-drawn wagons onto waiting steamboats. This 1906 photograph was taken at Memphis, Tennessee, along the Mississippi River. Steamboats were still an important freight and travel option into the early 20th century.