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A series of photographs showing Raynor Arthur's official duties (including several images of Government house) and his leisure time, taken during his office as Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas. Sir Raynor Arthur arrived on 1 April 1956 and left on retirement on 14 June 1960. Most of these photographs are by the Bahamas News Bureau and are approximately 255 x 200 mm, unless otherwise stated.

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229 x 173 mm. Showing a woman standing outside her small thatched house. Grantstown is a suburb of Nassau on the south of the city.

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225 x 177 mm. A view looking along an unsurfaced lane in Grantstown with a small thatched house at the left of the picture and a European and a Bahamian (dressed in suit and bowler hat) standing in the foreground.

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217 x 176 mm. Showing two pith-helmeted Europeans standing in a field of spiky sisal plants. Sisal, which became one of the Bahamas’ major industries, was first introduced into the island from Yucatan in 1845 by C.R. Nesbitt, Colonial Secretary, and the industry was set on its feet by Sir Ambrose Shea, Governor of the Bahamas, 1887-1895. Another print of the same photograph can be found at Y307G/8 where the location is identified as Little Abaco.

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221 x 174 mm. Showing a portly, white-bearded European (the same figure is seen in Y3071A/44-6) standing on a path beside a field of sisal.

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225 x 174 mm. Showing a field of growing sisal.

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226 x 177 mm. A view showing two Europeans in pith helmets standing in a field of growing sisal plants. A pencilled note on the back of the print reads: 'A Sisal Fibre Plantation Little Abaco Bahamas'.

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229 x 173 mm. Showing a sponge yard with a pile of sponges in the foreground, workers with packed bales of sponges in the middle ground and a large residential house in the background.

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225 x 177 mm. Showing Bahamian women at work in a shady courtyard, with sponges and trimmings on the ground around them.

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224 x 176 mm. Showing a bearded European in a pith helmet standing among palms and other tropical plants, possibly in the Botanic Gardens.

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244 x 176 mm. Duplicate of Y3071A/44.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Photographs contained in a report on a visit to the Colonial Development Corporation Tomato Project, Andros Is. Bahamas May 1952 by F. Hardy and R.E.D. Baker. Thirty copies of the 17 page typescript report were produced.1-6 Photographs taken Tuesday 13th May, 1952 between 9 and 10am after a night of heavy rain (2½ inches in about 8 hours). Each measuring 55 x 55 mm.7-12 Photographs of Andros Tomato Farm taken by Carl F. Warner (Acting Manager of the farm). Each measuring 100...

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225 x 177 mm. A view looking along the treelined avenue.

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211 x 170 mm. A view looking along a dirt road with a wooden thatched hut in the foreground and the sea beyond.

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226 x 177 mm. Showing a Bahamian in a straw hat standing beside a laden orange tree.

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255 x 200mm. A view from a window looking out at Nassau harbour at the arrival of the ship carrying the Duke of Edinburgh. A lighthouse can be seen on the headland, variously known as Nassau Harbor Lighthouse, Paradise Island Lighthouse and Colonial Beach Lighthouse.

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Three images showing Raynor Arthur's arrival in the Bahamas. All photographs are 255 x 200 mm prints.

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226 x 175 mm. A view in a Nassau park showing a row of Spanish Laurels. Pencilled caption on the reverse reads: 'Indian fig trees (ficus netida) Nassau Bahamas'.

Scope and Contents 255 x 200 mm. Shows Lady Arthur receiving a bouquet from a young girl. The typescript caption attached to the reverse of the print continues: 'Obviously pleased by the proceedings, Lady Arthur accepts a bouquet from a young resident of George Town, Exuma. Lady Arthur and the Bahamas' new governor, Sir Raynor Arthur, K. C. M. G. , C. V. O., visited George Town to witness the Fourth Annual Out Regatta, April 11-13, which is limited to native work boats of the Bahamas. -30-'. The caption...

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A series of photographs showing Raynor Arthur's official duties (including several images of Government house) and his leisure time, taken during his office as Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas. Sir Raynor Arthur arrived on 1 April 1956 and left on retirement on 14 June 1960. Most of these photographs are by the Bahamas News Bureau and are approximately 255 x 200 mm, unless otherwise stated.

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When the RES Headquarters was rebuilt in 1934-36, gifts of timber for panelling and furnishing were obtained from Empire Governments, companies and individuals. Many were destroyed during the bombing of 1941 and replacement gifts were received. This file coordinates pre and post-war correspondence.

Scope and Contents 150 x 205 mm. At the closing of the Bahamas Constitutional Conference in Marlborough House, London, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs Mr. George Thomson signs the document setting up the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands. With Mr. Thomson are (left) Bahamas Prime Minister Mr. Lynden Pindling and Lord Grey of Naunton, for whom the signing of the document was his final act as Governor of the Bahamas. Other signatories were Opposition Leader Sir Roland Symonette and Mr. Randol...

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187 x 289 mm. The opening ceremony of the Conference was presided over by Secretary of State for the Commonwealth, Mr George Thomson (left, centre, wearing spectacles.) Sitting opposite Mr. Thomson is Mr. Lynden O Pindling (seventh from bottom right), who is Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism and Development of the Bahamas.

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152 x 207 mm. The Bahamas Constitutional Conference opened at the Colonial Office in London recently. In this picture are, from left: Mr K.G.L. Isaacs, Solicitor General, Bahamas; Sir Robert Stapledon, (wearing spectacles), Governor of the Bahamas; Mr. Nigel Fisher, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office; Mr. A.R. Thomas, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office; Mr. J.A. Peck, Legal Division, Colonial Office.

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179 x 151 mm. Mr. Lynden O. Pindling (left), Premier of Bahamas and Minister for Tourism and Development, is welcomed by Mr. George Thomson, British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, on his arrival at Marlborough House, to attend the Bahamas Constitutional Conference, which opened there recently.