Wilson Popenoe
Early 20th-Century Colombian Fruit and Vegetable Studies, 1910s-20s
Silver prints (22)
Each with typed captions verso, some with additional manuscript captions in English or Spanish. Some with Popenoe's credit verso.
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A fascinating, typological collection of photographs documenting different types of Colombian fruits and vegetables, shot by the noted American agricultural explorer Wilson Poponoe. Each photograph bears a caption in English...
A fascinating, typological collection of photographs documenting different types of Colombian fruits and vegetables, shot by the noted American agricultural explorer Wilson Poponoe. Each photograph bears a caption in English or Spanish (“A basket of curubas (Tacsonia mollissima) from the Bogotá market”; “tubers of the chugua (Ullucus kunthii) an Andean root-crop cultivated since long before the Conquest”; etc.”).
An employee of the Department of Agriculture, Poponoe traveled to South American in the 1910s and 20s with his wife Dorothy, also an explorer and researcher, in search of new strains of avocados and other produce. He was cut from the USDA in the mid-1920s and took a job with the United Fruit Company. His seminal publication “ The Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits (1924), is still a standard reference today.
An employee of the Department of Agriculture, Poponoe traveled to South American in the 1910s and 20s with his wife Dorothy, also an explorer and researcher, in search of new strains of avocados and other produce. He was cut from the USDA in the mid-1920s and took a job with the United Fruit Company. His seminal publication “ The Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits (1924), is still a standard reference today.