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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
73-01
Record number:
73-01-2
JCB call number:
G797 O98d
Image title:
[Sugar field, sugar cane plants, sugar production tools]
Place image published:
[Copenhagen]
Image publisher:
[Johan Frederik Schultz]
Image date:
[1797]
Image function:
fold-out plate II; following p. 84
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
18.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
23.8 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
19.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
37.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Diagram of a sugar field with three stages of growth shown. Sugar cane plant with its flowers and fruit. Tools for growing and processing sugar including knife, hoe, ladle, and skimmer. Items are lettered and numbered for identification in key on facing page.
Source creator:
Oxholm, Peter Lotharius, 1753-1827
Source Title:
De Danske Vestindiske öers tilstand i henseende til population, cultur og finance-forfatning, i anledning af nogle breve fra St. Croix ...
Source place of publication:
Kiöbenhavn [Copenhagen]
Source publisher:
Trykt hos directeur Johan Frederik Schultz, kongelig og universitetsbogtrykker.
Source date:
[1797]
notes:
Denmark acquired St. Croix from France in 1733. Oxholm was a young Danish officer sent to the Danish West Indies in 1778 to map all the fortifications in the islands, suggest improvements, and estimate their cost. He was also to create topographic maps of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John. He mapped only St. John, but presented numerous drawings and maps at the Danish court where his work was approved and rewarded. Having married into a St. Croix family, he returned there and became a sugar planter. In 1794 he privately published a detailed map of St. Croix that he had created.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1973.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Sugar growing-- Virgin Islands of the United States

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