Banana Collection (#2)

Jamaican export of bananas 1901
Revival of trade with Jamaica, shipping bananas. As the bananas were brought on board, one of the ships hands seated beside the gangway

Jamaican export of bananas 1890s
Loading unripe bananas on a ship for there long journey. Date: circa 1890s

CARRYING BANANAS / WINDIE
A fruit market at Fort de France, Martinique. One man carries a tray of melons on his head, while a woman carries an enormous bunch of bananas on hers. Date: 1931

MOUSE LEMUR - eating Banana (Microcebus rufus). Madagascar

Japanese Five Dollar Banknote - Banana Money
Japanese government-issued five dollar banknote. The Japanese dollar was a currency issued by Imperial Japan during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak

Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle
Charles Darwin during his voyage on the HMS Beagle in the 1830s, when he discovered a variety of flora and fauna and begins to have thoughts about the origin of species and evolution

Loading Bananas - Port Antonio, Jamaica. Date: circa 1910s

Yumbo indian, 1783, by Vicente Alban (b. 1725-?)
Vicente Alban (b.1725-?). Ecuatorian painter. Yumbo indian, 1783. Museum of America. Madrid. Spain

Painting, Jardin d Essai du Hamma, Algiers, Algeria
Painting (gouache) of Banana Trees by Jacques Lacombe, Jardin d Essai du Hamma (Botanical Garden or Test Garden of Hamma), Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1910

Journey of Otto von Kotzebue exploring the Pacific Ocean (1815-1818). Indigenous inhabitants of Easter Island. Illustration by Louis Choris in Voyage dans le Pacifique. Plate XI

Market women and their Bananas - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: 1909

A Tamil Woman from Sri Lanka holding a large banana leaf above her head Date: circa 1920s

British artillery in Malaya
British troops move an artillery piece into position amongst banana trees in thick jungle during the Battle of Malaya. The British and Commonwealth forces were unable to halt the Japanese advance

Native Children - Sri Lanka - the boy standing on the left is shading his fellows with a large banana leaf

Belize - Manatee Lagoon - Fruit Day
Belize (formerly British Honduras) - Manatee Lagoon - Water Buffalo cart transporting bananas on Fruit Day. Date: 1915

Music cover, I ve Never Seen a Straight Banana, words and music by Ted Waite 1926

Colourful arrangement of fruit on a log, including a pineapple, bananas, grapes, apples, oranges and lemons. Date: circa 1960s

Boy Eating a Banana
Hes fond of bananas ! Date: 1930s

Advert / Fyffes Bananas
An advertisement for Fyffes bananas. Fyffes Blue Label brand will give them winter sunshine. Date: 1931

Fruit / Bananas
Carrying bananas from field to wharf, Annatto Bay, Jamaica, West Indies Date: 1888

Chimpanzee drinking milk
Chimpanzee sitting at a table drinking milk from a bottle, helped by a man. Date: circa 1970s

Cartoon, Disappointed greed, WW1
Cartoon, Disappointed greed, a comment on new alcohol restrictions. The waiter tells a lady that the anisette is too high in alcohol content for him to serve to her. Date: 1916

Jamaican Banana Carriers, Jamaica. Printed by the Colonial & Continental Church Society Date: 1904

Visit to Madeira - Banana trees and Fruit
Black and white lantern slide of Banana Trees and Fruit - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1890s

Bananas on tree (Musa sp). Tanzania - Africa

Colombia - Picking and transporting bananas, en route for export to Europe. Date: circa 1910s

Banana palms
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Banana Palms Date: 1927-1933

Costa Rica - Wharves at Puerto Limon. On the left is the dock/warehouse used to ship bananas from Costa Rica to the UK, the USA and other International destinations. Date: circa 1910s

Bananas awaiting transporting by rail - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Martinique - Elegant Banana Seller
Martinique (an overseas region of France in the Lesser Antilles - eastern Caribbean Sea) - An elegant Banana Seller Date: circa 1910s

Jamaican Banana Sellers, carrying impressive loads on their heads. Date: circa 1908

Musa x paradisiaca L. banana
A drawing by Paul Hermann from the collection of five volumes of specimens and drawings from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1672-1677. (Vol. 5 Page 299)

Musa coccinea, scarlet banana
Plate 913 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

banana bazaar - Kalaw
Banana bazaar - Kalaw - Banana Bazaar Date: 1952

Chimpanzee with Bananas

A Chinese sage sitting on a bench beneath banana trees, with attendants preparing a meal on the left. Date between 1700 and 1850

A banana cart. Date c1902

Barranquilla, Colombia - Fruit Market
Barranquilla, Colombia - the largest industrial city and port in the Colombian Caribbean region. The Fruit market. Date: circa 1910

BANANA MAN
A happy gentleman in a suit peels a banana! Date: 1930s

Unzipp a banana Date: 1959

Banana advertisement, 1931
Advertisement for Fyffes bananas from 1931 advising people to eat them in the winter as a popular, nourishing, nuturitious and cheap snack

Workers harvesting banana crop, Jamaica
Workers harvesting the banana crop in Jamaica

A Vervet Monkey swinging on a branch, holding a banana
A Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) swinging on a branch, holding a banana. Pastel drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Packing Bananas - Las Palmas - Gran Canaria
Packaging bananas on the street at Las Palmas, the principle city of the Spanish Municipality of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands

Singhalese Villager - Sri Lanka
A young man from a Singahlese Village in Sri Lanka poses for a photograph amid some banana plants, holding a seriously lethal-looking cleaver!

Poster advertising Bananas
Banana Palms: a poster artistically designed by E McKnight Kauffer for the Empire Marketing Board

Mali - Timbuktu - Water Carrier and Banana plant
Timbuktu, Mali. A water carrier standing alongside a Banana plant

Zaire Banana
Banana, at the mouth of the Zaire river

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