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Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker,first brought Jamaican bananas to United States,1948

Title: [Captain Lorenzo Baker, who first brought Jamaican bananas to the United States in June, 1870]
Date Created/Published: 1948 [from earlier portrait]
Summary: Copy photograph of oval portrait showing Lorenzo Dow Baker, a founder of the United Fruit Company. (Source: Identification provided by descendant Thomas Baker, 2011.)
Notes:
Title from back of portrait of Andrew Preston. The United Fruit Company pasted its caption on the wrong portrait. As a result this photo of Baker was previously misidentified as being Preston.
Credit line: Courtesy of United Fruit Company.
Published in: Unifruitco, Dec. 1948, p. 6.
Subjects:
Baker, Lorenzo Dow,--1840-1908.
United Fruit Company--People
Fruit industry--1880-1900.
Photographic prints--1940-1950.
Portrait photographs--1880-1900.
Bookmark /2002712356/
Description of Photograph
This is an 8x12 inch Reproduction Photograph made from a high quality scan of the original.

Size
Approximately 8x12 inches.
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