Sugar Cane Harvesters, Barbados
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2022-06-13T17:59:23Z
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The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.
Abstract
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
Description
Landscape; Black & white; 4 x 6"
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Keywords
Sugar Cane, Harvesters, Sugar, Sugar Plantations, Plantations, Agricultural laborers, Clothing and dress