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Kings Own Scottish Borderers - The uniform, reginemtal flags, crest and listings of International deployments are featured on this card. Date: 1913
Banana seller - Island of MartiniqueA wonderful postcard of a West Indian Banana seller from the Island of Martinique
Desclieux / Coffee PlantCaptain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry
Mulatto women workers, Martinique, West IndiesMulatto women workers on a sugar plantation, Martinique, West Indies (then a French colony). Date: 1922
HMS Centaur at the Diamond Rock, Martinique, West Indies Date: early 1800s
Carib women of Martinique, Antilles, West Indies, 1818Women of Martinique, Antilles, West Indies, 1818. Carib people in skirts, bandanas. One woman carries a basket on her head
Peruvians or Inca people, 1818Peruvians or Inca people of Peru, 1818. They wear feather headdresses, cloak and skirt, and the man carries a bow and quiver of arrows
Ring-necked spitting cobra and Martinique lanceheadRing-necked spitting cobra, Hemachatus haemachatus 1, and Martinique lancehead, Bothrops lanceolatus 2. Vipera emacate, Trigonocefalo ferro di lancia
House gecko and broad-tailed geckoHouse gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus 1, and broad-tailed gecko, Phyllurus platurus 2. Tarantola delle case, Filluro della Nuova Olanda
Greater Martinique skink and extinct galliwaspGreater Martinique skink, Mabuya mabouya (mabouya skink, Lacerta mabouya) and extinct galliwasp, Celestus occiduus (Australasian galliwasp, Lacerta occidua)
Creole Volunteer Soldiers Debark at Fort-de-FranceThe debarkment at Fort-de-France of Creole volunteer troops from Martinique returning from fighting in Mexico. Squadrons of soldiers gather by the shore, waiting to move off. Date: 1865
Encampment of General Foreys Troops at Fort-de-FranceEn route to Mexico, troops under general Forey set up camp on the savannah of Fort-de-France in Martinique. Tents are set up by a gated statue, with soldiers resting and cooking food. Date: 1862
French Award medals to Native CultivatorsThe Commodore distributes medals to native black cultivators for their work, at Fort-de-France in Martinique. Date: circa 1860
Capt. Faulknor Storming Fort Royal, MartiniqueCaptain Faulknor in the ship Zebra, storming Fort Royal in Martinique in 1794, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Faulknor uses his sword to point up a set of wooden stairs
Officer and Soldiers at Fort-de-FranceAn officer and soldiers of the Austro-Mexican brigade, in passage at Fort-de-France, part of the Creole volunteers of Martinique. Date: 1865
Fashionable woman of Martinique, French West IndiesFashionable woman of Martinique, West Indies (then a French colony). Date: 1922
1915 BSA Model K with despatch rider of the 109th Motorcycle Infantry Regiment, French Army. The 109th Infantry Regiment had its origins in Troupe Coloniale Martinique et Guadeloupe, created 1772
Martinique: view of Saint Pierre from the sea Date: 17th century
Megalomys desmarestii, antillean giant rice rat. Catalogue number NHM 1850.11.30.6
RACIAL / MARTINIQUE 1927A smiling woman selling bananas in Martinique Date: 1927
CARRYING BANANAS / WINDIEA 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
JOSEPHINES PROPHECYAs a girl on Martinique, the future wife of Napoleon I is told by an old negress that one day she shall be a queen - and so it turns out ! Date: 1763 - 1814
Ruins of Saint-Pierre, Martinique - Eruption of Mount PeleeRuins of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, entirely destroyed by the eruption of Mount Pelee which had been supposed extinct. Date: 1902
St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
Mulatto Woman from MartiniqueA beautiful Mulatto (person with one white parent and one black parent, or a person who has black ancestry and white ancestry) woman in a Foulard dress (foulard is a lightweight fabric)
St Louis Cathedral, Fort de France, Martinique, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
The landing stage, St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circaThe landing stage, St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
Mount Pelee and St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 19Mount Pelee and St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
Diver and boat, the harbour of St Pierre, Martinique, circaDiver and boat, the harbour of St. Pierre, Martinique, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
The harbour, St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900The harbour, St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
Street scene, St Pierre Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900Street scene, St. Pierre Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
Crowded street, St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies
Street, St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies
Principal business street, St Pierre, Martinique, West IndiePrincipal business street, St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900 - Rue VictorSt. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900 - Rue Victor Hugo. Date: circa 1900
Native Quarter St Pierre, Martinique, circa 1900Native Quarter St. Pierre, Martinique, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900
View of St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, before it was totally destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelee (1902). Date: circa 1900
Fort de France, Martinique, West IndiesQuays at Fort de France, capital of Martinique, West Indies. Date: circa 1914
Yacht Club, Fort de France, Martinique, West IndiesYacht Club at Fort de France, capital of Martinique, West Indies. circa 1940
FRENCH CARRIER BEARNThe Bearn of the French navy spent World War Two at Martinique to keep her out of German hands : by that time she was too slow for front line work, but did ferrying Date: launched 1920
Ring-necked spitting cobra, Hemachatus haemachatus, and Martinique lancehead, Bothrops lanceolatus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles
Fort-de-France, Martinique
E V MENTOR West Indian statesman, born in Martinique, deputy adjutant general in San Domingo, deputy to the revolutionary government in France. Date: 1771 - ?
Chamber of Commerce, Saint Pierre, MartiniqueA very early (photographic) view of the Chamber of Commerce, Place Bertin, Saint Pierre, Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Date: circa 1902
The Tower of Pelee, looking NorthThe breaking clouds and vapors uncovering the giant obelisk. Photograph taken June 13, 1902. Figure XXXII in Heilprin, A. (1908)
The Tower of Pelee, looking West-SouthwestView impressively showing the core-like extrusion from the cone of dome. Photograph taken June 13, 1903. Figure XXXIV in Heilprin, A
Eruption of Mt. Pelee - Devastation at Saint-PierreEruption of Mt. Pelee on Martinique - May 8th 1902 - This card depicts the devastation at Saint-Pierre, with the remains of a Rum Distillery at Place du Mouillage. Date: 1902
Martinique, Caribbean - Fort-de-France - View from the top of the Rue Antoine-Siger. Antoine Siger was the Mayor of Fort-de-France, who was assassinated. Date: 1910s
West Indies / MartiniqueMartinique harbour, West Indies. Date: 1930s
Cairo to the Cape, a Cruise Tour by Thomas CookCover illustration for Cairo to the Cape, a Cruise Tour including the Mediterranean and South America, Thomas Cook and Son. A map of Africa and South America shows the route across sea and land
Snake Charmer - MartiniqueSnake Charmer, Martinique, eastern Caribbean sea
Germain Casse / GillGermain Casse (1837-1900) French politician, appointed governor of Martinique
Martinique - Fort-de-France - Cathedral. Designed by Parisian architect Pierre-Henri Picq. The cathedral is built entirely out of wood
Cyclone damage on MartiniqueCyclone Damage to the Mairie (Town Hall) at Gros Morne on the Island of Martinique - 8th August 1903
Martinique - The Covered Market at Fort-de-FranceFort-de-france, Martinique, The Old Covered Market
The Birthplace of the Empress JosephineThe birthplace of the Empress Josephine (wife of Napoleon) on the Caribbean Island of Martinique
The Crater of Mont Pelee, Martinique, 1926Photograph showing an aerial view of Mont Pelee, Martinique, the volcano that erupted and destroyed St. Pierre in May 1902
Racial / Martinique 1927A smiling woman selling bananas in Martinique
Mulatto of MartiniqueMulatto woman of Martinique
Josephines ProphecyAn old negress of Martinique tells Josephine de Tascher that one day she will be a queen : sure enough, her second marriage is to Napoleon and she becomes an empress
Carrying Bananas / W indieA 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
Martinique CoffeeMartinique - Harvesting coffee to satisfy the cravings of picture researchers and sustain them in their work
Events / War / Anglo-FrenchFrench admiral Lamothe-Piquet, to protect a convoy at Martinique, engages six English ships so bravely that the English congratulate him
