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220 x 171 mm. A view showing residential houses and a church in St Pierre, with hills in the background.

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133 x 88 mm.

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80 x 55 mm.

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80 x 55 mm. And hills in the background.

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133 x 88 mm.

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133 x 88 mm.

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192 x 127 mm. A view from offshore showing the shell of a large building near the beach with hills in the background.

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265 x 180 mm. A beach scene at Carbet (sic) with a man and a rowing boat in the foreground of the palm-fringed beach. Carbet lies a few miles due south of Saint Pierre on the west coast of Martinique.

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204 x 153 mm. A view showing rubble and raised buildings in one of the streets which cross with Rue Victor Hugo, with a man standing among the fallen masonry in the foreground.

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80 x 55 mm. Two sides of the street with debris piled between the houses.

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80 x 55 mm. View with bodies in the foreground.

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80 x 55 mm.

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133 x 88 mm.

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192 x 127 mm. A view showing ruined buildings and rubble in the Rue Victor Hugo.

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203 x 152 mm. A view showing ruined buildings and rubble in the Rue Victor Hugo, with hills in the distance.

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191 x 127 mm. A view looking along the Rue Victor Hugo showing ruined buildings and the street filled with rubble. See postcard No. 2 for a view of the street before the disaster.

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203 x 152 mm. A view showing ruined buildings, rubble and volcanic ash in the Rue Victor Hugo.

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55 x 80 mm.

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55 x 80 mm.

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55 x 80 mm.

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55 x 80 mm.

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55 x 80 mm.

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55 x 80 mm.

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204 x 152 mm. A view showing searchers among the shattered masonry and buildings of a street in St Pierre, with the hills behind the city rising in the background.

Scope and Contents This porcelain statue bears the tag, ‘Found in ruins of St. Pierre, miraculously preserved 1902’. It was recovered from the ruins of St. Pierre, Martinique, in June 1902, by Sir Hesketh Bell, Administrator of Dominica, who visited immediately after the eruption of Mt. Pelée, ‘To our intense surprise, we found that this image was almost entirely undamaged, the hands and feet only having been broken off. This was a really an amazing thing, as it lay almost completely covered by big stones and...