Fruit Boats, New Orleans by Bertha Evelyn Jaques
Fruit Boats, New Orleans
Bertha Evelyn Jaques
Title
Fruit Boats, New Orleans
Artist
Year
1902
Technique
etching
Image Size
4 1/4 x 5 1/4" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
unnumbered
Annotations
pencil titled in lower left corner of the paper; Artist's initial monogram inscribed into the plate in lower left above the date
Reference
no. 22, checklist of the 1910 Chicago Society of Etchers exhibition; Czestochowski 68
Paper
cream vellin paper
State
published
Publisher
Chicago Society of Etchers, blindstamp in lower left corner of the paper
Inventory ID
20771
Price
SOLD
Description
New Orleans is synonymous with Creole cooking but it also has a long history with banana importation from Latin America, particularly Honduras. At the end of the 19th century there were at least two major fruit importers, the United Fruit Company and the Standard Fruit Company. Steamboats brought the bananas to New Orleans and smaller boats would transport the fruit to other ports upstream along the river. One result of the importation of fruit from Latin American was an influx of Honduran immigrants to Louisiana who came to work the docks or to have their children educated in Catholic schools.