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280 x 217 mm. A view showing a country house standing on a hillside among trees. Exact location unknown.

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316 x 217 mm. A view showing part of a cocao estate among wooded hilly land, with the estate manager's house in the foreground.

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317 x 243 mm. A view looking over hilly, wooded country, dotted here and there with houses. Annandale Estate, at this period having an acreage of 1150 acres and situated about 5 miles north-east of St George's, was the largest of the Grenadan estates and produced cocoa, spices and coffee.

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244 x 197 mm. A view showing the waterfall dropping among rocks and hanging vegetation with a man (in white pith helmet) and a woman posing for the photographer beside the falls.

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316 x 244 mm. A view looking along an unsurfaced road north of St George's with the bridge over the St John's River in the background. In the foreground, two Grenadians pose for the photographer beside their wagon and bullock team. The steep hill in the distance lies just north of St George's.

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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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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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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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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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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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316 x 220 mm. A view looking down from the town onto two steamers moored in the inland harbour, with houses in the background. The prison buildings can be seen on the far side of the harbour near the top of Richmond Hill.

Scope and Contents 317 x 223 mm. A finely detailed view looking over densely vegetated land, with mountains and the sea in the distance. This is presumably the main rebel camp at Morne Quaqua, near the Grand Etang north-east of St George's. The hill is now known as Morne Fédon after the rebel leader Julien Fédon. This rebellion, largely due to the racial tensions engendered by frequent changes of authority between the French and the English in the island, broke out in March 1795, when a body of rebels...

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310 x 223 mm. A fine view showing Grenadians washing clothes in an unidentified river. An unsurfaced road runs alongside the stream, with a few huts in the background.

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Letters and papers concerning Grenada written by Robert Melville and others and an edition of 'Royal Commonwealth Society Library notes' concerning Melville and this collection.

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281 x 211 mm. A view showing the working premises and residential houses on the Dongaldstone Estate (exact location and size unknown). At the right of the photograph the cocoa drying-racks can be seen.

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281 x 216 mm. A view showing the cocoa drying racks on a Grenada estate. A group of women pose in front of the racks while workers can be seen spreading the beans uniformly. After the pods are picked the beans are 'sweated' in boxes for several days to remove the surrounding pulp. They are then placed on these racks for sun-drying before being packed and transported.

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Prints showing a variety of scenes in town and country. They are listed in manuscript on a sheet of paper inserted at the front of the album and these descriptions have been transcribed as found.

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317 x 208 mm. A view showing a small settlement in a valley with lushly vegetated hills on either side. In the distance the sea can be seen, with the entrance to St George's obscured behind a hill.

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316 x 219 mm. A view looking down from the hills above the town towards the promontory on which stands Fort St George, and beyond it the narrow entrance to the inland harbour with the Quarantine Station and Point Saline in the distance.

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315 x 220 mm. Another view of Gouyave, or Charlotte Town, showing the houses on the water front and the 'fine jetty' mentioned in Drayton (1896), p.66.

Scope and Contents 317 x 217 mm. A view looking down on Charlotte Town, with the sea beyond : 'Charlotte Town or Gouyave (population in 1891, 2 225) is built on the shore of an open roadstead on the west coast of the island, about twelve miles to the north of St George's by road. There is a fine jetty, with a commodius block of public buildings at its shore end (!), two churches, a telephone exchange, and a water supply, which, however, is not in full working order at the present time, but extensive repairs...

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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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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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291 x 221 mm (overall), 140 x 101 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph shows the Government House framed by trees, with a roadway leading up to the house where a uniformed guard is stationed.