West Indies Gallery

Mount Pelee destruction in Martinique, 1902

Street scene in St. Pierre after the eruption of Mount Pelee, Martinique, 1902.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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1900s, 1902, 20th Century, Ash, Caribbean, Caribbean Island, Caribbean Sea, City, Corpse, Dead, Death, Destruction, Disaster, Erupt, Eruption, Heritage, Historic, History, Island, Martinique, Mount Pelee, Mt Pelee, Natural Disaster, Pelee, Street, Town, Traditional, Vintage, Volcanic, Volcano, West Indies

GATL2A-00025

Ox-drawn wagons carrying harvested sugar cane on a Jamaica plantation, circa 1890.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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1800s, 19th Century, Agriculture, Art, British, British Colony, British Empire, Business, Cane, Caribbean, Caribbean Island, Cart, Colonial, Colony, Commerce, Farm, Farming, Field, Harvest, Historic, History, Illustration, Jamaica, Jamaican, Labor, Labour, Native, Natives, Ox, Ox Cart, Ox Drawn, Oxen, Plantation, Sugar, Trade, Traditional, Transportation, Tropical, Vintage, West Indies, Work, Worker

EXPL2A-00024

Map of the Atlantic with the New World coast, drawn in 1500 by Juan de la Cosa, Columbus pilot.
Hand colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of the original chart

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