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127 x 101 mm. Showing the 'International Hotel' in Belize City, a three-storey wooden frame building with verandahs.

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127 x 101 mm. A view looking along the narrow grass-lined road, lined with palm trees and wooden framed domestic houses, with the junction with Cockburn's Lane at the left of the photograph.

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139 x 88 mm. A postcard (original photograph) by Avery looking across the Belize River to the 'United Fruit Co' buildings; with boats in the foreground.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing houses on the foreshore in Belize City with small fishing boats in the foreground.

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101 x 77 mm. Showing the rather squat Cathedral buildings. Consecrated in 1812, and situated behind Government House at the southern end of Belize City, St. John's was the first Protestant Church in Central America. The church has its place in the traditional friendship between the English and the Mosquito Indians, who helped in the struggle against the Spanish. After 1816, several of the Mosquito kings were crowned in the Cathedral.

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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 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.