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229 x 291 mm (overall); 120 x 192 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph shows at least four people loading horse-drawn wagons.

Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world located in La Brea, southwest Trinidad, within the Siparia Regional Corporation.

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233 x 131 mm. A view looking across the pitch lake at La Brea, with shallow pools of water here and there among the asphalt.

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117 x 141 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'A post-graduate student from the Gold Coast and the acting Professor of Botany at the College, Mr. Jacob Wilson, select maize seed for trials on the experimental plot of the College farm. Mar:1955'. It continues, at length, to give an outline of the College and its history.

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253 x 229 mm. Showing the front façade of Government House, with hills in the background and an Indian standing near the fountain in the foreground. Built between 1873 and 1876 on the site of an older house which was destroyed by fire, it was first occupied by Henry Turner Irving (Governor of Trinidad and Tobago 1875-1880).

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A collection of loose photographs in the form of postcards with handwritten captions beneath the prints.

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Monochrome postcards photographed by Algernon E. Aspinall, secretary to the West India Committee and published by Raphael Tuck and Sons Limited. From original set of six postcards.

Scope and Contents An album containing photographs measuring 90 x 65 mm., inserted four to a page, with four unused spaces. Four (8/8A, 26/43, 31/38 and 51/52) are duplicates. The clothes and aeroplane shown in 45 and 47 suggest a date about 1930. The majority of the photographs are landscapes and general scenes, and as 3-6, 8-9, 11, 13-15, 18, 21-22, 26, 30-32, 34-35, 37-40, 43 have ‘Trinidad’ printed with the photograph - 5 and 11 also have titled - it seems probable that most of the collection was...

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[From air].

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[From air].

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Photographs of which 84 are postcards, and one negative. Despite the label 'Trinidad pictures', some of these images appear to be of England. One has the caption 'Lay Brother's Entrance, Beaulieu Abbey,' but the rest are all uncaptioned, so it is difficult to identify location. In the main, they depict groups of people, scenes of agriculture and some general landscape views.

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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[View out to sea].

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Postcard booklet with the above title. A series of original photographs photographed by Herbert J. Bryant and published by Richardson and Selway Ltd., Port of Spain, Trinidad.

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A collection of loose photographs measuring approximately 250 x 230 mm and captioned on the reverse in pencil. The captions have been reproduced as found. The photographs illustrate buildings and industries on the island.

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79 x 52 mm. Showing the huts and masts of the radio station.