Martinique Collection

Kings Own Scottish Borderers - The uniform, reginemtal flags, crest and listings of International deployments are featured on this card. Date: 1913

Desclieux / Coffee Plant
Captain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry

Banana seller - Island of Martinique
A wonderful postcard of a West Indian Banana seller from the Island of Martinique

Mulatto women workers, Martinique, West Indies
Mulatto 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, 1818
Women of Martinique, Antilles, West Indies, 1818. Carib people in skirts, bandanas. One woman carries a basket on her head

Peruvians or Inca people, 1818
Peruvians 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 lancehead
Ring-necked spitting cobra, Hemachatus haemachatus 1, and Martinique lancehead, Bothrops lanceolatus 2. Vipera emacate, Trigonocefalo ferro di lancia

House gecko and broad-tailed gecko
House gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus 1, and broad-tailed gecko, Phyllurus platurus 2. Tarantola delle case, Filluro della Nuova Olanda

Greater Martinique skink and extinct galliwasp
Greater Martinique skink, Mabuya mabouya (mabouya skink, Lacerta mabouya) and extinct galliwasp, Celestus occiduus (Australasian galliwasp, Lacerta occidua)

Creole Volunteer Soldiers Debark at Fort-de-France
The 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-France
En 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 Cultivators
The Commodore distributes medals to native black cultivators for their work, at Fort-de-France in Martinique. Date: circa 1860

Capt. Faulknor Storming Fort Royal, Martinique
Captain 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-France
An 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 Indies
Fashionable 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 1927
A smiling woman selling bananas in Martinique Date: 1927

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

JOSEPHINES PROPHECY
As 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 Pelee
Ruins 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 1900
St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900

Mulatto Woman from Martinique
A 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, circa
The landing stage, St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900

Mount Pelee and St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 19
Mount Pelee and St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900

Diver and boat, the harbour of St Pierre, Martinique, circa
Diver and boat, the harbour of St. Pierre, Martinique, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900

The harbour, St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900
The harbour, St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900

Street scene, St Pierre Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900
Street 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 Indie
Principal business street, St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900

St Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900 - Rue Victor
St. Pierre, Martinique, West Indies, circa 1900 - Rue Victor Hugo. Date: circa 1900

Native Quarter St Pierre, Martinique, circa 1900
Native 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 Indies
Quays at Fort de France, capital of Martinique, West Indies. Date: circa 1914

Yacht Club, Fort de France, Martinique, West Indies
Yacht Club at Fort de France, capital of Martinique, West Indies. circa 1940

FRENCH CARRIER BEARN
The 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, Martinique
A very early (photographic) view of the Chamber of Commerce, Place Bertin, Saint Pierre, Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Date: circa 1902

The Tower of Pelee, looking North
The 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-Southwest
View 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-Pierre
Eruption 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

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