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2023.055.3.0060Description
Sepia tone stereograph. Image is of a cobblestone street with several two-story buildings visable, a group of men watch as another group pack away objects in a large crate. Stamped on the top right corner of the backing is "S 45." Below the image "11199- Packing crude rubber, Para, Brazil center of Amazon river-system trade. Copyright Underwood & Underwood U-1219" is printed. To the left of the image "Eurpoeean Publishers Underwood & Underwood" is printed. To the right of the image "Underwood & Underwood New York & Ottawa, Kas. Works, Arlington, N.J." is printed.
On the reverse the following is printed - 11199. Geography - Civic Betterment, - Para, located at the mouth, is the biggest city on the Amazon river. This trade centre of Brazil has a population of over 100,000 people and is growing steadily. It is a modern city, with electric lights, telephones and street cars. It has several theatres and clubs of the better class and two second-rate hotels. There are fine residence streets, a number of beautiful parks and many refined and attractive people of the better class.
Products and Industries. - The rubber territory extends all along the Amazon and its tributaries, comprizing an area one-third the size of the United States. The rubber trees have not been grown in plantations until recently. They are found scattered through the forest. The tree is cut into with a small hatchet and a small cup is attached beneath the incision. The sap which collects in each cup is collected at night and taken to the camp to be prepared for market. Although the fluid hardens from the action of the air it is thought better to coagulate it with smoke. A paddle is wet with the fluid and held over a fire of palm nuts, the smoke of which hardens the rubber. The paddle is dipped again and again, until the ball of rubber is the proper size; it ishen cut so that the baddle may be removed.
The rubber is brought in boats from the camps in these lumps, which look and smell like small country-smoked hams. The lumps are taken from the boats to the warehouses, weighed and cut (to be sure they are solid rubber all the way throught), and than packed in pine boxes for shipment to all parts of the world. Each box contains three hundred pounds. The State tax on rubber exports is twenty-five cents a pound. It dervies an enormous income from the trade.
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Packing crude rubber, Para, Brazil.
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