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The banana plant dies when the single bunch of fruit it yields is cut off. After that the stalk is chopped down, but a new plant grows up from the old roots, and the same plantations keep bearing for years.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division

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Lands of the Caribbean

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The banana plant dies when the single bunch of fruit it yields is cut off. After that the stalk is chopped down, but a new plant grows up from the old roots, and the same plantations keep bearing for years.

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The banana plant dies when the single bunch of fruit it yields is cut off. After that the stalk is chopped down, but a new plant grows up from the old roots, and the same plantations keep bearing for years.
Collection

Lands of the Caribbean: the Canal Zone, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1926
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Doubleday
Issuance: monographic
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc E 00-1347
Topics
Caribbean Area -- Description and travel
Trees
Caribbean Area
Banana plants
Blacks -- Caribbean Area
Banana trade
Genres
Photographs
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 45503124
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14719974
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1a86fbc0-c6dd-012f-4cc8-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

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  • 1926: Issued
  • 2023: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "The banana plant dies when the single bunch of fruit it yields is cut off. After that the stalk is chopped down, but a new plant grows up from the old roots, and the same plantations keep bearing for years." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1926. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-887c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "The banana plant dies when the single bunch of fruit it yields is cut off. After that the stalk is chopped down, but a new plant grows up from the old roots, and the same plantations keep bearing for years." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 5, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-887c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1926). The banana plant dies when the single bunch of fruit it yields is cut off. After that the stalk is chopped down, but a new plant grows up from the old roots, and the same plantations keep bearing for years. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-887c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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The banana plant dies when the single bunch of fruit it yields is cut off. After that the stalk is chopped down, but a new plant grows up from the old roots, and the same plantations keep bearing for years.