Title:
Cuba - Province of Camaguey - Vanero: Harvest on a sugar plantation in the rich lands in the south-central part of the city
of Camaguey and about the same distance from Central Vertientes (the Vertientes sugar mill). This crop will go to that "central"
for processing - Central Vertientes, American owned and operated, is probably the largest of all Cuba's 161 "centrals". Cuban
sugar fields are seldom if ever burned over to strip the leaves from the cane stalks before cutting. Much of the harvest occurs
during the very dry season of Cuba when brisk winds blow which could quickly send the flames out of control. so the cutters
have a double job -- first cut the entire stalk, then strip the leaves which fall to the ground, tossing the cane to one side
where the sugar carts will later gather it up for the first stage of its journey to the central. the carts go to a near by
railroad transfer station where their contents is scooped up by a machine crane and loaded into open freight cars which shortly
take the crop on to the central for processing.
Creator:
James C. Sawders
Food industry
Sugar industry
Plantations
Sugar plantations
Laborers
Agricultural laborers
Threshing
Harvesting
Description:
Cuba - Province of Camaguey - Vanero: Harvest on a sugar plantation in the rich lands in the south-central part of the city
of Camaguey and about the same distance from Central Vertientes (the Vertientes sugar mill). This crop will go to that "central"
for processing - Central Vertientes, American owned and operated, is probably the largest of all Cuba's 161 "centrals". Cuban
sugar fields are seldom if ever burned over to strip the leaves from the cane stalks before cutting. Much of the harvest occurs
during the very dry season of Cuba when brisk winds blow which could quickly send the flames out of control. so the cutters
have a double job -- first cut the entire stalk, then strip the leaves which fall to the ground, tossing the cane to one side
where the sugar carts will later gather it up for the first stage of its journey to the central. the carts go to a near by
railroad transfer station where their contents is scooped up by a machine crane and loaded into open freight cars which shortly
take the crop on to the central for processing.
Publisher:
Keystone View Company
Contributor:
Gifford M. Mast
Date:
1948
Type:
Photography
Format:
Keystone photo print 7.18 in. x 4.18 in.
Identifier:
1996.0009.KU104083.SS
Language:
eng
Coverage:
North and Central America
Cuba
Camagüey
Latitude: 21 30 N
Longitude: 080 00 W
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Cuba - Province of Camaguey - Vanero: Harvest on a sugar plantation in the rich lands in the south-central part of the city
of Camaguey and about the same distance from Central Vertientes (the Vertientes sugar mill). This crop will go to that "central"
for processing - Central Vertientes, American owned and operated, is probably the largest of all Cuba's 161 "centrals". Cuban
sugar fields are seldom if ever burned over to strip the leaves from the cane stalks before cutting. Much of the harvest occurs
during the very dry season of Cuba when brisk winds blow which could quickly send the flames out of control. so the cutters
have a double job -- first cut the entire stalk, then strip the leaves which fall to the ground, tossing the cane to one side
where the sugar carts will later gather it up for the first stage of its journey to the central. the carts go to a near by
railroad transfer station where their contents is scooped up by a machine crane and loaded into open freight cars which shortly
take the crop on to the central for processing.