Sugarcane Collection (#2)

Crane at a "central"sugar cane gathering place, San Sebastian vicinity, Puerto Rico, 1942
Crane at a " central" sugar cane gathering place, San Sebastian vicinity, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Man in a sugar-cane field during harvest, vicinity of Rio Piedras? Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Man in a sugar-cane field during harvest, vicinity of Rio Piedras? Puerto Rico

Sugar cane land, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane land, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

FSA borrower and participant in the sugar cane cooperative, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA borrower and participant in the sugar cane cooperative, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

FSA farmers working in a sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Farm Security Administration farmers working in a sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. This is part of an FSA cooperative

FSA borrowers harvesting sugar cane cooperatively on a farm, vicinity Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Farm Security Administration borrowers harvesting sugar cane cooperatively on a farm, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Sugar farms along the northern coast, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar farms along the northern coast, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands

Sugar cane fields on the north-west part of the island, St. Croix island, Virgin Islands, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane fields on the north-west part of the island, St. Croix island, Virgin Islands

FSA borrower cultivating his sugar cane field, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, V. I. 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Farm Security Administration borrower cultivating his sugar cane field, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He lives in one of the homestead houses

Harvesting sugar cane in a burned field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Harvesting sugar cane in a burned field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico. Burning the sugar cane gets rid of the dense leaves and makes cutting the unharmed stalks easier

FSA borrower? in a sugar-cane field, Puerto Rico, 1941 or 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA borrower? in a sugar-cane field, Puerto Rico

Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of Bethlehem, Saint Croix, 1941
Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of Bethlehem, Saint Croix

Man in a sugar cane field during harvest, Puerto Rico, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Man in a sugar cane field during harvest, Puerto Rico

The Virgin Islands, sugar cane country, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
The Virgin Islands, sugar cane country

FSA borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico, 1942 or 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
FSA borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane land, Yabucoa Valley? Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane land, Yabucoa Valley? Puerto Rico

Sugar cane country, the Virgin Islands, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane country, the Virgin Islands

Sugar cane worker in the rich field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane worker in the rich field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico

Page from the Tractatus de Herbis by Dioscorides Pedanius, 1458 (vellum)
VEN5028057 Page from the Tractatus de Herbis by Dioscorides Pedanius, 1458 (vellum) by Italian School, (15th century); Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Emilia-Romagna

Poster advertising the Hamburg American Line, 1903 (colour litho)
SFP409495 Poster advertising the Hamburg American Line, 1903 (colour litho) by Bohrdt, Hans (1857-1945); Cauer Collection

Sugar cane fields in the West Indies - in "The old and modern costume"by Ferrario, 1819-1820
LSE4099252 Sugar cane fields in the West Indies - in " The old and modern costume" by Ferrario, 1819-1820 by Ferrario

Field of sugar-cane, South Carolina (engraving)
7192415 Field of sugar-cane, South Carolina (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Field of sugar-cane, South Carolina)

Harvesting sugar cane (coloured engraving)
7201020 Harvesting sugar cane (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Harvesting sugar cane)

Sugar-cane (engraving)
7192418 Sugar-cane (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sugar-cane. Illustration for Wonderland or Curiosities of Nature and Art by Wood Smith)

Le Vocabulaire Illustre: Canne (a sucre); Sugar-cane; Zuckerrohr (engraving)
7195162 Le Vocabulaire Illustre: Canne (a sucre); Sugar-cane; Zuckerrohr (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Canne (a sucre); Sugar-cane; Zuckerrohr

The mill to grind sugar cane from Sarayacu (Peru), drawing by Riou
LSE4325427 The mill to grind sugar cane from Sarayacu (Peru), drawing by Riou, to illustrate Paul Marcoys journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean from 1848 to 1860

The factionary of the office of the place, rifle leans against the wall
LSE4332093 The factionary of the office of the place, rifle leans against the wall, devouring a piece of sugar cane, etched by T.Wust, to illustrate the story La republique d Haiti

History of America: collecting sugar cane and making sugar
JLJ4623261 History of America: collecting sugar cane and making sugar. Engraving by Theodore De Bry (1528-1598) 16th century Private collection by Bry

Sugar Cane, Mexico, 1929 (b / w photo)
GBW469869 Sugar Cane, Mexico, 1929 (b/w photo) by Modotti, Tina (1896-1942); eGalerie Bilderwelt; Italian, out of copyright

L ile de la reunion, France (Today overseas departments)
XEE4193082 L Ale de la reunion, France (Today overseas departments). Series on the French colonies. Import coffee, grapes, cotton, cinnamon, caco and sugar

Sugar cane cultivation in South America, 1820 - in "
GIA4775627 Sugar cane cultivation in South America, 1820 - in " The old and modern costume" by Ferrario, 1819 - 1820 by Unknown Artist

A cane merchant and his mule in Cartago (Costa Rica), the only merchant who animates
LSE4329326 A cane merchant and his mule in Cartago (Costa Rica), the only merchant who animates the empty streets of the city. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to New Granada, by Dr

Sugar manufacturing: a sugar cane mill in a sugar factory in the West Indies
XEE4142225 Sugar manufacturing: a sugar cane mill in a sugar factory in the West Indies. Engraving from 1859. by Unknown Artist

Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, Canne a sucre. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lagesse after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Common sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Cane sugar, Saccharum officinarum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Jamaican industry was struggling against fierce rivalry of production volumes from the great European Nations manufactures

Maritime trade and trade with the Spanish Indes (colony)
AIS5347558 Maritime trade and trade with the Spanish Indes (colony), in particular the holding of Sugar Cane. Departure from the port of Lisbon to the East Indies, America and Brazil

Couple a woman with an Indian in front of a sugar plantation in the West Indies
JLJ4661756 Couple a woman with an Indian in front of a sugar plantation in the West Indies. Anonymous painting, 18th century

Sugarcane, 1833-39 (coloured engraving)
999139 Sugarcane, 1833-39 (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Dictionnaire pittoresque d histoire naturelle et des phenomAnes de la natureA)

Une plantation de cane a sucre avec un moulin a sucre, des canamettes et la sucrerie - in
LSE4401929 Une plantation de cane A sucre avec un moulin A sucre, des canamettes et la sucrerie - in " Histoire generale des drogues" by Pierre Pomet, merchant grocer et drugist, ed

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"Sugarcane: A Sweet Journey Through Time and Continents" From the brushstrokes of Winslow Homer's masterpiece, "The Gulf Stream" in 1899 to the lens capturing sugarcane plants in Mauritius, Africa, this versatile crop has left its mark on history. Saccharum officinarum, commonly known as sugarcane, has been a source of sweetness and economic prosperity for centuries. Intriguingly depicted in an English line engraving from 1796 by J. G. Stedman, we witness sugar cane's four different stages - from sprouting shoots to mature stalks ready for harvest. This visual narrative takes us back to a time when the cultivation of this precious plant was essential for trade and survival. Across continents and cultures, it has played a vital role. In Cairo, Egypt, sellers proudly display their bountiful harvest while Cuban fields come alive with workers meticulously harvesting each stalk around 1910. Women navigate canal boats laden with provisions – perhaps destined for the transformation into sweet delights or fueling local economies. As we delve deeper into the world cultivation, we discover black sugar cane varieties cultivated specifically for sucrose extraction through crushing techniques. These resilient strains have become synonymous with sweetness itself – their vibrant green hues hiding treasures within their fibrous stems. Through these glimpses into history and diverse landscapes worldwide – from America to Africa and beyond – it becomes clear that sugarcane is not just a mere crop; it is an emblem of human ingenuity and resilience. From ancient civilizations harnessing its potential to modern-day industries refining its essence into myriad forms like crystalline sugar or molasses - Sugarcane continues to captivate our senses while leaving an indelible mark on our taste buds.