Branding iron
date: label: Date made
content: 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: This branding iron was used in the 20th century to brand cattle with the letters "HC." While cattle and other livestock were introduced to Puerto Rico and throughout the Caribbean in the earliest years of Spanish settlement, by the 20th century most land on the island was geared towards a cash crop economy based on sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, and other agricultural products grown for export.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Esta marca de hierro se usó en el siglo XX para marcar el ganado con las letras "HC". Si bien el ganado fue introducido en Puerto Rico y el Caribe durante los primeros años de la colonización española, ya para el siglo XX la mayoría de las tierras de la isla se destinaban a cultivos comerciales basados en la caña de azúcar, el café, el tabaco y otros productos agropecuarios sembrados para la exportación.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title (Spanish)
content: Marca de Hierro
topic: label: Subject
content: Daily Life
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Agriculture
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content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.0138
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.0138
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
objectType: label: Object Name
content: branding iron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 9 cm x 28.5 cm; 2 3/4 in x 3 9/16 in x 11 1/4 in