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110 x 80 mm.

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153 x 110 mm. Showing crowds in their best clothes walking beside the race track on Race Day.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

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127 x 101 mm. Showing Hondurans sitting on the wooden trestle railway bridge which crosses low ground in the jungle. Completed in the early years of this century, the railway ran from Middlesex to Dangriga along the Stann Creek Valley. Some of the building was done by immigrants from the West Indian islands who came to the Stann Creek area between 1880 and 1890 attracted by the prosperity of the banana plantations in the area.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents 127 x 101 mm. A view looking across a large field under cultivation with huts dotted here and there and mountains in the distance. Banana production in Belize was a fast expanding export crop with a large market in the United States. After the development of Stann Creek as a banana centre there was an equally fast decline as disease and poor cultivation methods took their toll. By 1906 many of the larger producers had withdrawn from the market, but from the evidence of this picture the...

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136 x 87 mm. A postcard (original photograph) looking along a railway track with plantation workers' huts on either side and the manager's residence on a hill in the background. With mountains in the distance.

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137 x 88 mm. A close-up view of the house on the hill seen in the preceding plate, a raised two storey wooden building with verandahs on all sides.

Scope and Contents 127 x 101 mm. Showing an unidentified building (flying the American flag) on the waterfront at Saint George's Cay (also known as Kay Casine). Saint George's Cay is the outermost of the mass of protective islands which lie at the harbour mouth of Belize City and has been the scene of several incidents, most notably the Spanish attack in September 1779 (when 140 prisoners and 250 enslaved persons were captured and transported to Havana, where they remained until 1782), and the battle of 1798...

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390 x 80 mm. A roughly joined panorama of the south side of Belize City consisting of three prints. The view extends to the harbour frontage at the left of the picture and shows a small part of the north side of the city at the right. In the centre of the picture can be seen the original Court House and the Presbyterian Church.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing part of the canal which runs from Haulover Creek through the southern section of Belize City, with children standing on a small wooden bridge and a European woman in in the foreground.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing Honduran women posing for the camera on the bank of the river at Stann Creek.

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Loose photographs of various sizes, either captioned on the print or which have hand-written captions on the reverse. Photographs are by William F. Avery, J.E. Plummer and Mr Boyle, chief engineer on the Stann Creek Railway. They are broken into the following categories thus: Y3078A/1: panorama of Belize City, by Avery; Y3078A/2-8: miscellaneous views by J.E. Plummer; Y3078A/14-16: views of the Stann Creek Railway by Boyle.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...