Rice cultivation as 2000 years ago. [Rice bags piling up in a warehouse].

Rice cultivation as 2000 years ago. [Rice bags piling up in a warehouse].

Creator
Three Lions
Date created
circa 1930s-1950s
Accession No.
OFI-001072
Location
OFI-001001 to OFI-001100OFI-001072.jpg
Notes
Several Filipino workers in a rice warehouse: Machinery for filling sacks of rice, and stacks of filled rice sacks stored ready for shipment. Full caption, translated from German, continues: Rice cultivation as 2000 years ago. Bags of rice in the warehouse of Luzon. This largest of the archipelago delivered before wars 65% of the entire rice production and their population, the Tagalogs, are the main rice-planter and major rice consumer. They are among the Malayan Filipinos the most aggressive and self-reliant. With the exception of the south inhabitant Vosyans they are the most numorous.
Type
Photograph, B/W, white border, glossy.
Medium
1 photographic print : sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Subject 1
Rice trade — Philippines — Luzon.
Subject 2
Rice — Storage — Philippines.
Subject 3
Warehouses — Philippines — Luzon.
Actual Image Location
Box No. 2, Agriculture
Call number
OFI-001072