Browsing by Author "Roberts and Company, Barbados"

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    Bridgetown, Barbados. Showing Swing Bridge and outer harbour.
    (The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.) The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.
    This image shows an aerial view of Bridgetown overlooking the Swing Bridge and outer Harbor with the jetty in the background. Several persons are on the bridge at various points. Horse-drawn carts are also visible in the picture. Ships and boats docked in the Harbor/Careenage. In the background are several commercial buildings of historical interest including a warehouse with signage with the words; Cooperage, Lumber, Wood. This is a divided back postcard. Back of the postcard: CTP £15 (Handwritten in pencil). Roberts & Co., Barbados. Printed in Saxony.
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    Carting Sugar Cane, Barbados
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    A picture of two men carting sugar cane in Barbados, with several others further back in the field. Attached to a cart of sugar cane are about five bulls. At back : Roberts and Company, Barbados Note reads : Dear B, This is sugar cane country. We are landing on an island a day and it is hard to get time to even write a card. Had fried flying fish for lunch, E.W.I Addressed to Miss Elizabeth Walton, 400 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y., USA AL M 6 GBP (pencil) i15756
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    Stone Lion Gun Hill, Barbados.
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    A picture of the stone lion situated at Gun Hill, Barbados. Two women and a little boy are standing next to the lion statue. Under the statue lies an inscription which quotes Psalms 72:8 translated from a Bible written in a Latin dialect, it says “Dominabtis a mari us ad mare a flumine us ad terminos orris” which in English translates to “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river, unto the ends of the earth”. (https://www.visitbarbados.org/the-lion-at-gun-hill) At the back: A o5 IP £6. Roberts and Company, Barbados " Glorious sea for swimming. First in the Aquatic Club now waiting for tea. You would love to see the blacks swimming & diving for pennies. The little sailing boats launches all very pretty. Love Mother." Addressed to : Master G. Ryland?, ? Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, Bucks, England. Red 1 penny postage stamp
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    Trafalgar Square, Barbados.
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    The post card depicts a scene in Trafalgar Square, Bridgetown, Barbados. Nelson’s Monument is featured in the photo and people can be seen walking the street. Also, in the photo are docked yachts and horse-drawn carriages. A man can be seen boarding his transport to join the other passengers while a woman eagerly waits her turn. Info. At the back: CH £15 Roberts & Co. Barbados Printed in Saxony Stamp placement
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    Trafalgar Square, Barbados.
    (The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.) The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.
    The image shows a busy Trafalgar Square, with the Nelson statue in the foreground. There are a number of train trams, horse-dawn carriages and people on the street. As a man either alights or disembarks one of the trams, a female stands nearby in the shadow of the monument. The masts of the boats docked in the nearby Careenage are visible all around. Back of the card : BARBADOS ENTP GBP 12 Roberts and Company, Barbados. Printed in Saxony. i 15768