Oil Awaiting Shipment Trinidad Oilfield. B.W.I.

Abstract

Here is a vintage photograph, taken when Trinidad was under British rule. Numerous barrels of oil lie neatly in rows on the ground in front of a shed awaiting shipment abroad. The men in the photograph all wear hats and their job seems to entail arranging the barrels of oil in the rows for shipment. They are aided in this work by the help of long wooden boards which form tracks to guide the barrels. A man in the foreground poses over a barrel he is helping to stack. A glimpse of an oil derrick can be seen at the top right edge of the photograph. Postcard number S3-7.