Cuba Gallery

Jamaica - Panorama of Mandeville

Slide showing a photograph over looking the city of Mandeville. Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica.. Part of Box 108. Boswell Collection. Slide number 42. Jamaica, officially the Commonwealth of Jamaica, is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, situated in the Caribbean Sea. Jamaica is south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola, the island containing the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the West Indies. Date: circa 1932

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

West Indies Poster

Poster for West India winter cruises aboard the Grosser Kurfurst of the North German Lloyd - visiting the Panama Canal, Bermuda, Cuba and South America Date: 1912

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1912, Aboard, Advertising, America, Bermuda, Canal, Cruises, Cuba, German, Historical, History, India, Indies, Lloyd, North, Panama, Poster, Sea, South, Travel, Visiting, West, Winter

Pleasure routes across the Atlantic

Pleasure routes in the wake of Columbus - mapped in the manner of the old cartographers: ocean cruises to the Caribbean and the romantic islands of the West Indies, once the haunt of the buccaneers, and a thousand miles further north of the Bermudas. An old style map showing the routes of various ocean cruise liners across the Atlantic during the 1930s. Ships include the Reina des Pacifico, the Laconia, the Britannic, and the Duchess of Richmond. To the top left of the map is an impression of the booking hall at travel agent, Thomas Cook in Berkeley Street, London. Date: 1932

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans