Pennsuco sugar plantation, 1921-1922

Permanent Link:

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Material Information

Title:

Pennsuco sugar plantation, 1921-1922

Creator:

Matlack, Claude Carson, 1878-1944.

Publication Date:

1921/1922

Language:

English

Physical Description:

9 photos. : black and white; 18 x 13 cm.

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Pennsylvania Sugar Company
Floods--Florida--Everglades
Sugar growing--Florida--Everglades
Sugar workers--Florida--Everglades
Everglades (Fla.)--Photographs
Pennsuco (Fla.)
Sugar

Spatial Coverage:

United States -- Florida -- Miami Lakes

Notes

Abstract:

Photographs depicting the Pennsuco sugar plantation, 1921-1922. Views of the Pennsuco sugar plantation and factory. -- 1. Tractor dragging a sled filled with cut cane, September 7, 1921. no. 53-31. -- 2. Workers in a sugar cane field, December 15, 1921. no. 123-31. -- 3. Workers' housing and work building by sugar cane field, December 15, 1921. no. 123-31. -- 4. Two men on tractors, December 15, 1921. -- 5-9. Flooding from September rains, September 7, 1922. -- 5. Flooded fields and Everglades, from top of sugar mill. no. 160-31. -- 6. Sugar mill under construction. no. 161-131. -- 7. Buildings and automobiles. no. 171-31. -- 8. Buildings at Pensuco. no. 185-31. -- 9. Buildings at Pensuco. no. 187-31.

General Note:

From Photographs : series 31.

General Note:

Pennsuco (Pennsylvania Sugar Company) established a sugar plantation and mill in Broward County, 1920-1925. Taxes, soil deficiences, and flooding in 1925 ended the project.

Record Information

Source Institution:

Florida International University

Holding Location:

HistoryMiami

Rights Management:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Resource Identifier:

CM00310001

dpSobek Membership

Aggregations:

Everglades Digital Library: Reclaiming the Everglades
HistoryMiami Museum
Claude Matlack Photograph Collection