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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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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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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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229 x 291 mm (overall), 127 x 203 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph is taken from an elevated location and shows Grand Etang Lake in Grenada, surrounded by lush foliage.

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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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280 x 210 mm. A view looking down from the town of St George’s showing the centre of the Carenage with Richmond Hill in the distance. Two steamers are moored in the inland harbour. Another print of the photograph occurs in Y30771A/12.

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275 x 207 mm. A view looking across hilly land towards St George’s and showing the entrance to the inland harbour. Another print of the same photograph occurs in Y30771A/4.

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272 x 204 mm. A view showing the seaward side of St George’s taken from the promontory on which Fort St George stands. Another print of the same photograph occurs in Y30771A/16.

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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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275 x 206 mm. A view looking over hilly, wooded ground on the Annandale Estate, the largest in Grenada. Another print of the same photograph occurs in Y30771A/21.

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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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273 x 207 mm. A view showing the drying-rocks on a cocoa plantation. Another print of the same photograph occurs in Y30771A/27.

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Two documents, 1801 (3 pages) and 1802 (7 pages), regarding the transfer of land in Grenada from the Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Fleury to Alexander Campbell, Junior. One of the sureties is Alexander Campbell, the elder, presumably the plaintiff in the famous lawsuit Campbell v Hall.

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...

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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.