Caribbean Collection (page 18)

Poster depicting a cocoa estate in Trinidad
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting a cocoa estate in Trinidad

Returning home postcard
A lovely postcard of a donkey wagon laden with luggage to be sent to inform friends and relatives of the date of return from holiday in Bermuda

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

Cyclone damage on Martinique
Cyclone Damage to the Mairie (Town Hall) at Gros Morne on the Island of Martinique - 8th August 1903

Martinique - The Covered Market at Fort-de-France
Fort-de-france, Martinique, The Old Covered Market

The Birthplace of the Empress Josephine
The birthplace of the Empress Josephine (wife of Napoleon) on the Caribbean Island of Martinique

Coloured Cousins
To Gladstones dismay, his coloured cousins arrive from the West Indies, hoping to be welcomed into Britain

Coloured Cousins 2
At first dismayed when his coloured cousins turn up from the West Indies, Gladstone soon finds work for them

Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596)
Engraving of Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), Elizabethan explorer and seafarer. In 1577 he and his crew became the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe

Passenger ship off St. Vincent, 1873
Engraving of a passenger ship anchored off the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, in quarantine, 1873. In the foreground of the image can be seen local traders, in their little boats

Mexico / Quintanaroo / Tulum
Quintana Roo, Tulum. View of the Mayan temple called El Castillo on the Caribbean coastline. This large pyramid has two columns depicting serpents

Suburban Sunday 1970S
A sensible boy cools down with a bottle of shandy and his dog laps up a glass of Caribbean lemonade. Meanwhile, Dad, with his shirt off, struggles on in the heat with his lawnmower

Racial / Martinique 1927
A smiling woman selling bananas in Martinique

Flying Fish / De Bry
Flying fish in the Caribbean

Loading Sugar for Export
Sugar in barrels is loaded in the West Indies for export to Europe

Caribbean Landscape 1520
The beautiful landscape and fauna of the Caribbean as it was seen by the first Europeans

Quaker Tobacco Planters
Quaker tobacco planters in the Bahamas

Working on Treasure Ship
Divers discover the wreck of a Spanish treasure-ship, sunk in 1632, off the coast of San Domingo in the Caribbean : they also find that it is infested with sharks

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