Balsa tree, Salvador
During the Industrial Age, light balsa wood, indigenous only to Latin America, was in demand for its usages in fishing and boating.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1890 and 1923]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA , Carpenter Collection
DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b40684
URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b40684