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[Captain Lorenzo Baker, who first brought Jamaican bananas to the United States in June, 1870]
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.)
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.
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Date
01/01/1948
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.
