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81 x 82 mm. Showing three women in a garden. Geneva was a large estate in the south of Dominica owned by the Lockhart family. Those pictured are, from left to right: Miss Brenda Lockhart, Mrs Lockhart and Miss Jane Woodcock. Miss Brenda Lockhart never married, helped run the estate. She was the twin sister of Minna who was the mother of the author Jean Rhys. Mrs Lockhart was Brenda and Minna's mother and Miss Jane Woodcock was Mrs Lockhart's sister (Rhys 1979, pp 33-38).

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103 x 76 mm. Showing the arch erected by the Dominica Agricultural Society to welcome Bell on his return to the island on February 5 1903.

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102 x 72 mm. Showing the landing pier at Roseau, decked out in welcome for Bell's visit to Dominica, his first since his period as Administrator of the island from 1899-1905.

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102 x 73 mm. Showing crowds on the beach beside the landing pier, awaiting Bell's arrival in Dominica.

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129 x 78 mm. A view looking past the flag-draped jetty towards the liner in which Bell arrived in Roseau for his 1912 visit. A copy of this print, extracted from an unidentified newspaper is also pasted into Bell's scrapbook, and the photograph the attributed to G.E. Pinard.

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The original articles of capitulation of Dominica and St Kitts and a petition from the inhabitants of the latter, with two further copies of each document. The papers are in French, and are accompanied by an undated one-page note describing their contents.

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Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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102x73mm. A blurred and indistinct view conveying almost nothing of the Bath Estate.

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233 x 165mm. A view looking along a curving beach at an unidentified location in Dominica with steep hills rising from the shore on the other side of the bay.

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99 x 65 mm. Showing Bell being rowed ashore at Roseau, with crowds lining the waterfront in the background.

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154xl08mm. View from a hillside looking down on the estate factory buildings on the bank of the River Layou. A dotted line drawn on the print indicates erosion by the river: this is presumably the site of the new river wall seen under construction in earlier prints in the album.

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A collection of scrapbooks containing press cuttings, correspondance, photographs, tickets, invitations, menus and programmes.

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77x101mm. General view looking across planted land towards a hillside.

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240 x 174mm. A view in the Botanical Station showing an expanse of lawn with an avenue of trees and shrubs beyond.

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72x78mm. View of a dilapidated building situated next to the main factory and also visible in Y307H/22. This barn-like construction has stone walls with a central doorway flanked by two further arched entrances and a pitched and tiled roof. Precise function unknown, but possibly the packing shed seen in Y307H/56.

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152x96mm. Showing two labourers and the driver posed with a bullock cart on the Hillsborough Estate.

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231 x 167mm. A view looking out into the bay with the two hills called the Cabrits silhouetted against the sky. It is at the Cabrits that the remains of Fort Shirley stand (where the British after struggling across the island continued the fight against the French after the fall of Roseau in 1805)

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101x73mm. View looking towards land planted out with cane at the mouth of the Layou River.

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85 x 72 mm. Showing a loaded bullock cart negotiating a rough country road.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...

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211 x 127 mm. A view looking along the sloping, partially cobbled street with wooden huts on either side. The title is taken from the pencilled caption on the back of the print.

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199x145mm. View looking along the Layou River towards the factory buildings of the C1ark Hall Estate.

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l02x76mm. View looking across a valley planted out with (?)coffee towards the opposite hillside.

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101x73mm. Similar view to Y307H/44, but with a small group of houses on a spur below.