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COLLECTION Identifier: Mss:1 1891-1962 U860

United Fruit Company Photograph Collection

Guatemala Digital

Scope and Contents

Subjects depicted include Bananera, Barrios, Lake Atitlan, Huehuetenango, Antigua, Guatemala City, Tiquisate, and abaca planting.

Tela (Honduras) Digital

Scope and Contents

Subjects depicted include buildings, construction of new hospital, La Lima (1949, )Herman Wimmer’s trip (1946), companion photos of 1920s, Tela Hospital (1923), schools (1921), labor camps (1924), and Tela & Tela R.R. Co. (1921).

Tela (Honduras) Digital

Scope and Contents

Subjects depicted include buildings, construction of new hospital, La Lima (1949, )Herman Wimmer’s trip (1946), companion photos of 1920s, Tela Hospital (1923), schools (1921), labor camps (1924), and Tela & Tela R.R. Co. (1921).

Tela (Honduras) Digital

Scope and Contents

Subjects depicted include banana cultivation and planting (1922-1928 and 1946), banana handling (1928-1929 and 1946-1949), blowdowns (1925-1926), disease, and bananas (1955-1956).

Colombia Digital

Scope and Contents

Subjects depicted include buildings (Octo., 1928-1953), mills (1933-1954), radio (1925-1930), fire at Seville Club (March 10, 1955), housing (1929-1936-1937), hospital at Sevilla (1929), commissary at Santa Marta (1929), U. F. commissary at Sevilla & Orihueca sacked and burned in revolution of Dec. 1928, company offices, etc. burned. Photos of some buildings “before” and “after.”

Colombia Digital

Scope and Contents

Subjects depicted include buildings (Octo., 1928-1953), mills (1933-1954), radio (1925-1930), fire at Seville Club (March 10, 1955), housing (1929-1936-1937), hospital at Sevilla (1929), commissary at Santa Marta (1929), U. F. commissary at Sevilla & Orihueca sacked and burned in revolution of Dec. 1928, company offices, etc. burned. Photos of some buildings “before” and “after.”

Recreation, (Welfare, Schools) Digital

Scope and Contents

Subjects depicted include Santa Marta (1924-1926), Sevilla (1926), Banes (1924), Costa Rica school for local children, church (1924), Truxillo (1927) schools for girls & boys, local recreation (1922-1926), Bocas, Almirante baseball (1916), U.F. Co. school and local students, San San R.P. Guatemala schools (1927), Preston, baseball, tennis, etc. (1927), and Tela schools and recreation (1924-1925).

Recreation, (Welfare, Schools) Digital

Scope and Contents

Subjects depicted include Santa Marta (1924-1926), Sevilla (1926), Banes (1924), Costa Rica school for local children, church (1924), Truxillo (1927) schools for girls & boys, local recreation (1922-1926), Bocas, Almirante baseball (1916), U.F. Co. school and local students, San San R.P. Guatemala schools (1927), Preston, baseball, tennis, etc. (1927), and Tela schools and recreation (1924-1925).