Coffee Growing and Processing in Guatemala for the American Market
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1991.7.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Schuyler, John B., III
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content: John B. Schuyler III films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (15 minutes, black-and-white silent; 376 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1926
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film showing the growing and processing of coffee in Guatemala. Footage includes shots of the finca (coffee plantation), planting and transplanting seedlings by children, transplanting older seedlings to permanent plots, harvesting coffee called "cherries," weighing a days pick and payment to workers, washing to remove outer "skins," hulling and polishing to remove final outer layers, and hand grading of coffee "berries."