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Item Cattle Mill used for crushing sugar cane, St. Lucia.(The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.) Unknown; The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.This is a site of a Cattle Mill that is used for crushing Sugar Cane in St. Lucia. While the actual process is not visible, cattle can be seen along with people in the environment. Info. At the back: “This space may be used for communication.” “The Address only to be written here.” “Inland ½ d. STAMP. FOREIGN 1 d.” 1937 Cost: £8Item Shipping Fruit, Castries, St. Lucia(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 photo shows a group of people both male and female, carrying bunches of bananas perched on their heads onto a cargo ship. The name of the cargo ship is “MARA”. The photo provides representations of laborers' period dress. This is a divided back postcard. Back of the Postcard: 7 (handwritten in pencil). Published by Clarke & Co., Castries, St. Lucia.Item Sugar Boilers, 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.This image displays a group of both males and a female (some standing; some sitting on the ground) of Sugar Cane boilers (workers) outside of a building. They are all dressed in long sleeved shirts and long pants; all have hats or turbans on their heads and are bare-footed. At the right-hand side of the postcard is marked “J.R. Seifert & Co. Ltd., Barbados.” This is an undivided back postcard. Back of the Postcard: PP £9.50 waf (handwritten in pencil). Printed in Germany.Item Sugar Cane Harvesters, 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 group of four (4) young men in a cane-field with cutlasses and pieces of sugar cane in their hands. The young men are dressed in the same attire, long sleeve shirts, long pants, with hats on their heads. On the back Barbados – (undecipherable) 1930? Dear Stevie , I am plenty by little boys (but black ones) eating sugar cane like you as candy and chewing gum. These little chaps never have to bother with leggings or galoshes or heavy coats. The same (undecipherable) suit does for all year round and for every day till it falls apart. Love Winea?? Addressed to: Master Steve Willer, 526 Essex Ave, Narberth, Mont. Co., Penna 03A IP £7 (all handwritten in pencil) Postage Stamp is attached (Postage & Revenue – Barbados 1d) Rubber Stamp –INFORMATION (rest of words undecipherable), BARBADOS BWI, Baggage Warehouse. Published by Knights Limited BarbadosItem Sugar Cane Harvesters, Barbados(The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.) Knights, Ltd.; The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.This is an image of four men who are harvesters in a sugar cane field in Barbados. They are all dressed in the appropriate dress of agricultural laborers of the day, each one holding a piece of sugar cane and a cutlass in each hand. Divided back. At the back of Postcard: arbados – (undecipherable) 193 Ce ? Dear Stevie – I am plenty little boys (but black ones) eating sugar cane like you do candy and chewing gum. These little chaps never have to bother with leggings or galoshes or heavy coats. The same (undecipherable) suit does for all year round and for every day till it falls apart. Love Winea?? Addressed to: Master Steve Miller, 526 Essex Ave, Narberth, Mont Co – Penna (Montgomery County) 03A IP £7 (all handwritten in pencil) (1 Pence Barbados Postage Stamp, 1 Barbados Post Office Stamp & 1 Barbados- Baggage Warehouse Stamp) Published by Knights Ltd. Barbados £6