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87 x 95 mm. A view showing Bell working at a desk in an open-sided summerhouse with a thatched roof. The location has been identified by Lennox Honeychurch.

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87 x 95 mm. A view showing Bell working at a desk in an open-sided summerhouse with a thatched roof. The location has been identified by Lennox Honeychurch.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides of St Lucia. The majority are of views of scenery, many from the sea or from the air (two sequences in February 1971 and September 1972). There is not much relating to Marnham's work, though his official house in Castries is shown in February 1971. Among events which are shown are: a youth rally at Vieux Fort on 1 May 1971 and 11 scenes at the Castries Carnival of 1972. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript...

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87 x 88 mm. A view looking down on the experimental agricultural plantation established privately by Bell in 1900 on thirty acres of Crown land about six miles from Roseau. The project is described in Bell (1946), pp 29-31, and its progress mentioned many times in Bell's letters.

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80 x 80 mm. A view looking down on the experimental agricultural plantation established privately by Bell in 1900 on thirty acres of Crown land about six miles from Roseau. The project is described in Bell (1946), pp 29-31, and its progress mentioned many times in Bell's letters.

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128 x 79 mm. Showing Bell and an unidentified couple standing in front of the verandah of the bungalow of Sylvania, Bell's experimental plantation in Dominica.

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85 x 85 mm. A view showing estate houses and the plantation at Sylvania.

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85 x 85 mm. A view showing estate houses and the plantation at Sylvania.

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85 x 85 mm. A view showing estate houses and the plantation at Sylvania.

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85 x 85 mm. A view showing estate houses and the plantation at Sylvania.

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85 x 85 mm. A view showing estate houses and the plantation at Sylvania.

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89 x 87 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides of St Lucia. The majority are of views of scenery, many from the sea or from the air (two sequences in February 1971 and September 1972). There is not much relating to Marnham's work, though his official house in Castries is shown in February 1971. Among events which are shown are: a youth rally at Vieux Fort on 1 May 1971 and 11 scenes at the Castries Carnival of 1972. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript...

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318 x 220 mm. An evocative period photograph looking down onto the shaded tennis court of Government House, where a game is in progress. The small group in the foreground is probably the Governor, Sir Walter Hely Hutchinson and his wife and two children.

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105 x 160 mm. Showing Colonel Herbert Bryan, who performed the ceremony in the absence of the Governor Sir Leslie Probyn, standing beside the cross. (Sir) Herbert Bryan (1865-1950) had a distinguished career as a soldier, and was Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast 1904-1914, and of Jamaica 1914-1925, though he was absent from the post when on active service in World War I (dispatches five times, D.S.O.), K.B.E. 1925.

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210 x 168 mm. A view showing a banyan tree in Nassau.

Scope and Contents 129 x 79 mm. A view looking along the jetty at Roseau which is decorated with flags in honour of Bell's visit to Dominica in July 1912. At the end of the jetty stands an arch with messages of welcome from the Dominica Guardian, the Voice of Dominica and the people of Dominica: 'Lovely weather and everything propitious for the reception which the good folk gave me. The Administrator, Mr. Young, and good old Porter came off to the ship and we all went ashore together. The harbour was full...

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81 x 84 mm. A view looking down on to the Boiling Lake in the crater of a semi-extinct volcano containing a geyser which periodically empties and fills. A visit by Bell to the Boiling Lake is described in 'Glimpses of a governor's life' (Bell 1946, pp 10-12).

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84 x 84 mm. As captioned.

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86 x 84 mm. Showing steam rising from the surface of the lake.

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84 x 82 mm. A view looking down on the lake bed.

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84 x 84 mm. A close up view of the lake, with two figures standing at its edge and steam rising in the foreground.

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Probably the draft of an historical article or chapter in Davis's projected book.

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286 x 224 mm. A view showing the working premises on the Brothers Estate, set among lush vegetation in the hills of St John's parish, north of St George's. This estate, owned by the donor of the album (refer to originator details), was of about 590 acres and seems to have yielded a far richer output of cocoa, spices, coffee, nuts and sugar than many of the larger estates. See production figures for 1894 in Drayton (1896), pp 11-12.

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229 x 291 mm (overall), 140 x 203 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph is taken from an elevated location and shows a densely populated area, believed to be 'The Camp' indicated in the caption, among distant mountaintops. There are negligible details present in the sky. For another photograph of the same scene see Y307J/5.