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76x102mm. Showing a palm and other plants growing in a bed beside a path in the Botanical Gardens.

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459 x 183 mm (two prints). A panorama of Roseau composed of two prints, taken from the hills behind the town looking seawards. Between the town and the hills in the foreground can be seen the Botanical Station and Gardens.

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'Perspective view of Roseau in the Island of Dominca in the West Indies', an undated print engraved for C.T. Middleton's 'A new and complete system of geography' (2 vols, London, 1778-1779).

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Contains loose prints showing views in Dominica. The original prints are accompanied by six half-tone reproductions from a printed book, measuring 138 x 83 mm, showing the following scenes: 1. View in Botanic Station; 2. A settler's home in the forest; 3. Roseau from the sea; 4. Market Street, Roseau; 5. Natives hand-pressing lime; 6. Breaking cocao pods.

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[View from the sea].

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[View from the sea].

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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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[Robin William Renwick (b 1937) Private Secretary to the Minister of State, FCO].

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The Hon. R.O.P. Armour, formerly Minister of Communications : the Hon. Patrick Roland John (b 1937), Premier of Dominica 1974-1979.

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159 x 102 mm. A view looking along a path in the gardens, with iron fountains at intervals along its length.

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210 x 157mm. A view looking along the rock strewn Roseau River, with hills and mountains in the distance.

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75x77mm.

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102x74mm. View from a hillside looking out over parcels of land planted out with sugar, towards the mouth of the River Layou.

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75x10lmm. View from the shore looking towards the moored mail steamer.

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226 x 174mm. A view looking down from a hillside on to Rose's orchards and estate buildings with Roseau and the sea in the background. Rose and Co. was established in Dominica in the 1860s by Laughlan Rose, a merchant from Leith, who apart from supplying limes to British ships, pioneered their use in soft drinks. In 1875 he set up the first factory in Dominica for the extraction of lime juice.

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[View from the sea].

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[View from the sea].

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102x77mm. View of a palm tree, probably in the Botanical Gardens at Roseau.

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76x98mm. Showing an unidentified woman with an umbrella walking along a path, probably in the Botanical Gardens in Roseau.

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160 x 116 mm. A view looking towards the waterfront at Roseau and showing the mountains behind the town.

Scope and Contents A collection of loose photographs measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm, with captions pasted to the backs of the prints. The photographs show scenes and events during the tour of 1966 which started at Georgetown, British Guiana and following the line of the islands (apart from a detour to Nassau) and ended in Jamaica. This was the first visit of the Queen to most of the islands although she had been to Jamaica and Bermuda during her world tour of the Commonwealth in 1953-4. Photographs by...

Scope and Contents The notebook contains cuttings of many reviews of Bell’s publications, including ‘Obeah : witchcraft in the West Indies’ (London, 1889) and ‘A witch's legacy’ (London, 1893) which appeared in British, African and West Indian periodicals, along with copies of:‘The Fetish-mountain of Krobo’, ‘Macmillan’s Magazine’, July 1893, 210-19‘His Highness Prince Kwakoo’, ‘The Idler Magazine’, Dec. 1896, 685-96‘History, trade, resources, and present condition of the Gold Coast...

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A scrapbook containing press cuttings, correspondance, photographs, tickets, invitations, menus and programmes.

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Received with the archives of the Hillsborough estate, Dominica, which was owned by the Greg family between 1765 and 1928.