Exporting Collection

Bermuda - Humorous Greetings Postcard - Onion
Blessed is the man who comes to Bermuda (The modern paradise) And is tempted to eat a sweet onion instead of a forbidden apple

Volkswagens
Flower power on imported Volkswagen to Sweden. Landskrona harbour 1961. Date: 1961

Exporting cows from Jersey, early 1900s

1979 fuel shortage
A Texaco petrol station runs out of petrol during a national petrol shortage brought about by a price rise by OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Boat Shed - Astove Island, Cosmoledo Group
Boat Shed - Astove Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1, 000 kilometres (620 miles) from Mahe Island

Gang of Labourers - Astove Island, Cosmoledo Group
Gang of Labourers - Astove Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1

Loading of Mangrove Bark - Menai Island, Cosmoledo Group
Loading of Mangrove Bark - Menai Island, part of the Cosmoledo Group, part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1

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

GRANDFATHER CLOCKS SOLD
Mr Robb, an antique dealer, exporting grandfather clocks to Holland, including one his grandfather made over 100 years before. Date: 19 February 1964

Hartleys Jam Works, Aintree, Merseyside - Box-making Dept
Hartleys Jam Works, Aintree, Merseyside - The Box-making Department, capable of making 3000 boxes daily! The boxes being manufactured here are for exporting to America where they term the jars as

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

Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig packing at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Shipping Rum - British Guiana (Guyana)
Shipping Rum (and sugar cane required in the production of rum) - British Guiana (the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana)

Opium Poppy pickers - near Afyon, Turkey
Opium Poppy Pickers. The pickers have faces covered to prevent too much ingestion of the crop! The name of the city of Afyon is derivated from Opium

Izmir, Turkey - Opium Cultivation
Opium poppies and their exporter, J Taranto (from J Taranto & Sons - Exporters of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey) (left) at a field likely to be close to Afyon

East India Import and Export Docks, London Date: circa 1850

Britains chief exports to the world by G. H. Davis
Britains chief exports to the world: vast fields of opportunity are kept open during the Second World War by British supremacy at sea

Cuba - Havana - Wharf Scene in the harbour - The Cuban Treasury is on the left and the Cabana Fortress is in the distance across the bay to the right. Date: circa 1909

South Korea - Chosen - Storage Jars awaiting export Date: circa 1920s

Loading Bananas onto a ship - Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1910

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

Exporting Ceylon Tea at Colombo Docks - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s

Bermuda - Packing Onions
Packing onions into wooden crayes ready for international export - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Easter Lily Field, Bermuda
Lily Field, Bermuda. Commercial production of bulbs initially started in Bermuda in 1853 and as late as the 1890s, Bermuda controlled 90% of the lily market in the United States! Date: circa 1909

Packing Easter Lily Buds, Bermuda. Date: 1906

A butter factory in Canada. The card states that the butter produced was in high favour on the British market. Date: circa 1930s

Thulin A car
A Thulin A, car manufactured at the Thulinfactory, Landskrona, Sweden, 1923, Date: 1923

Evaporated milk barrels
Evaporated milk in barrels for export. Malmo, Sweden May 1947. Date: 1947

Peshawar Fur Market - with bales loaded on carts all ready for foreign export. Date: 1910s

Erskine Wharf - Wheat Export Yard, Karachi, Pakistan (still India at this stage). Date: circa 1909

Izmir, Turkey - Activity on the quayside
Busy activity at the port of Smyrne (Smyrna, modern Izmir), Turkey Date: 1905

Slate covered bungalow, Porthmadog, North Wales
A slate covered bungalow in Porthmadog, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. The town of Porthmadog developed in the 19th century as a port exporting slate to England

Steamship off the coast of Africa
A steamship off the coast of Africa, no doubt engaged in the export and import of goods, in this Empire Marketing Board depiction

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

Niagara Peninsula - Peaches for export
Canada - province of Ontario - The Niagara Peninsula - a microclimate, where a wide variety of fruit and vegetables (which could not be grown in any other area of Canada) are grown

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