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318 x 216 mm. A view looking across the garden and drive towards Government House, in front of which stands a landau with a uniformed driver. This new, brick built Government House was commenced while the previous Governor, Sir Walter Sendall, was away from the island in 1886, the year after Grenada became the headquarters for the Windward Islands administration. The figure standing on the steps leading up to the house is probably Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson.

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151 x 210 mm. A view looking out from jungle foliage towards Government House in front of which the Union Jack is flying. The house stands at one end of the Botanical Gardens.

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319 x 215 mm. A view looking up the shaded drive towards the front entrance of Government House. Standing in the drive in the foreground is the Governor of the Windward Islands, Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson (1849-1913), who assumed the post from November 1889 until 1893. He later spent nine years as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cape Colony.

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83 x 82 mm. A general view of the lawn and garden.

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240 x 188 mm. A view showing the large circular lake, of volcanic origin, situated in the centre of Grenada, among hills and woods. The building just visible beyond and to the left of the lake is probably the Government rest-house.

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Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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[Flowers on cliff overlooking sea].

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[Town on headland].

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[Town on headland].

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[Wooden building in foreground, town in distance].

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Slides numbered from 1-65 by John Ewart Marnham (numbers 14, 42 and 43 are missing). There are also 5 slides of Tobago and one of Jamaica not numbered by him, but clearly identifiable by the processing number and probably omitted on account of inferior quality or repetitive subject. They are inserted at appropriate points. Eleven slides (numbers 23-28), 29-31, 33-35) are in Kodak Readymount frames without processing numbers and since several show John Ewart Marnham and Susan Marnham it is...

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[Grenadine].

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[Grenadine, probably seen from Grenada].

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213 x 158 mm. A view looking across hilly wooded countryside with plantation buildings in the foreground.

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208 x 154 mm. A fine group portrait of plantation workers with women at the front holding baskets. Behind them stand the male pickers who hold long poles, at the end of which are mitten-shaped knives used to cut the fruit from the tops of the trees.

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Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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153 x 209 mm. Showing two workers loading baskets of beans into wooden 'sweating boxes' where they ferment in a mixture of their own enzymes and wild yeast from two to nine days before being sun-dried.

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212 x 157 mm. A view looking up towards the ramparts of the Richmond Hill Fort which looks over St George's from a height of 800 feet and was formerly the headquarters of the military garrison. On the flat ground beneath the fort a cricket match is in progress.

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208 x 153 mm. Showing cocao beans spread out on racks similar to those used for drying copra.

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209 x 154 mm. A view looking down from a hillside and showing part of the harbour and town. Fort Saint George, built in the early years of the eighteenth century, stands on a small peninsula, which guards the entrance to the inland harbour (not visible in this photograph).

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[From the air].

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Contains slides taken chiefly in Ciceron and its grounds. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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['Royal Navy' heading and paper 'With the compliments of Hecla flight'].

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Contains slides taken chiefly in Ciceron and its grounds. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.