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203 x 152 mm. A view showing a blackened and bloated corpse half burned in volcanic ash with blocks of masonry lying around.

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203 x 153 mm. A view showing ruined buildings and rubble in one of the streets which cross the Rue Victor Hugo, with a steep hill in the background.

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204 x 152 mm. A view showing ruined houses, rubble and a twisted iron balcony in an unidentified residential street.

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203 x 152 mm. A view showing the standing exterior of walls of a gutted shop, with the street in the foreground covered in a blanket of ashes.

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203 x 152 mm. A view showing a devastated street, with a scarred hill in the background.

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80 x 60 mm. And another man standing in front of pile of tree branches in the Park.

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80 x 55 mm. Piles of debris with a group of men standing on the left.

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204 x 153 mm. A view showing the façade of the cathedral, with a small part of the wall facing the street still standing.

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80 x 55 mm. With Cathedral Tower in the background.

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80 x 55 mm.

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204 x 153 mm. A view showing charred and blackened corpses lying among the volcanic ash and rubble in the city.

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204 x 153 mm. A view showing a group of charred and blackened corpses lying in volcanic ash in a street of St Pierre, with ruined buildings in the background.

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204 x 152 mm. A view showing raised buildings and charred trees with hills in the background.

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203 x 152 mm. A view showing the burnt-out interior of a house with a figure in a white jacket in the foreground looking at a charred corpse lying among the volcanic ashes.

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204 x 153 mm. A view showing the gutted interior rooms of a house.

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203 x 152 mm. A view showing fallen masonry and a twisted metal structure among the ruins of the cathedral.

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133 x 88 mm.

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133 x 88 mm.

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133 x 88 mm.

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133 x 88 mm.

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133 x 88 mm.

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Scope and Contents This file contains the texts of articles written by Bell, many derived from his diaries. They are listed below:‘The adventures of Futki the white elephant’ (three copies)‘The doom of Saint Pierre’‘Housekeeping in West Africa’‘The improvement of physique in Negroes’‘In a Japanese railway carriage’‘A motor cottage’‘My fishy friends in Nassau’ (three copies)‘My friends the cannibals’ (three copies)‘My friends the cannibals...

Scope and Contents 399 x 240 mm. A view showing the town and harbour of St Pierre, the chief commercial centre (rather than the capital) of Martinique. The picture shows the curve of the town along the bay and a harbour crowded with sailing ships at anchor (and one steamer flying the French flag, in the background). In the distance the volcanic peak of Mont Pelée looms over the town. Y307A/63-67 have an added interest and importance following the complete destruction of the town in May 1902 (see Y307E for...

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300 x 241 mm. A view looking north along the cobbled street of La Place Berlin with the partially obscured signal tower, le Sémaphore, at the left of the picture and masts of sailing-ships in the background. Le Sémaphore can also just be seen in the centre of Y307A/63, on the shoreline. With Mont Pelée in the distance.