The left postcard "Turtle Crawl at Key West, Florida" from around 1940 shows penned green sea turtles (also known as loggerhead turtles) before they are slaughtered, each weighing around 160 kg. Key West was long known for steaks and soups made from the meat of these animals. Then a picture from Carajas (Brazil), around 1930, children proudly show a bowl with an estimated 100 sea turtle eggs, a welcome source of income for poor fishermen. Text on the back of the lower card from around 1950: "Big George, 650 pound loggerhead turtle, at the Turtle Kraals, in Key West, Florida." Right postcard from around 1950 with the text: "The only turtle kraal in the United States is located here in Key West, Florida".
[hint: this is an automatic translation from German]
| Category: Postcards
| Material: Papier
| Country of origin:
Bavaria, Germany
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Similar pieces
You will see on the stylized turtle shell the exhibits arranged according to their similarity. Click on the turtle shell and explore the exhibition!
The pattern of a turtle resembles a mathematical Voronoi diagram. We use a Voronoi diagram here, which displays exhibits on a surface partitioned according to the similarity of the pieces. The similarities of the pieces are calculated by an artificial intelligence algorithm.
Das oben links dargestellte Objekt (farbig umrandet) ist das Referenzobjekt zu dem die ähnlichen Objekte dargestellt werden. Ein neues Referenzobjekt kann aus den angezeigten ähnlichen Stücken per Klick bestimmt werden. So kann man sich entlang von Ähnlichkeiten durch die Ausstellung bewegen.