Janus: Fisher photograph collection

RCS/Fisher contains:
<-- See earlier
Y30742A	Photographs of St. Kitts, circa 1900
Y30745A	Photographs of Dominica, circa 1910
Y3075C	Photographs of Trinidad, 1911-1912
Y30771B	Photographs of Grenada, circa 1890
Y30773B	Photographs of St. Vincent, circa 1900-1910
Y3078A	Views in British Honduras, circa 1911
Y3081A	Geological Survey of West Australia photographs
Y3081B	Photographs of agriculture and scenery in Western Australia circa 1910
Y3085O	Photographs of Queensland agriculture, industry and scenery circa 1910
Y3086U	Agriculture and scenery in New South Wales
Y3091C	The Fijian Coconut Industry, circa 1905

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Fisher photograph collection

Title	Views in British Honduras, circa 1911
Reference	Y3078A
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	circa 1911
Extent and Medium	16 images in 1 file; Photographs vary in condition from fair to good.

Content and context

Contains loose photographs, of various sizes either captioned on the print or which have hand-written captions on the reverse. Photographs are by William F. Avery, J.E. Plummer and Mr Boyle, chief engineer on the Stann Creek Railway. They are broken into the following categories thus: Y3078A/1: panorama of Belize City, by Avery; Y3078A/2-8: miscellaneous views by J.E. Plummer; Y3078A/14-16: views of the Stann Creek Railway, by Boyle.

Presented by J.E. Plummer.

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Indexed

This file is available on microfiche: South America/Caribbean, fiche number 28.

This box is available on microfiche: South America/Caribbean, fiche number 28.

Index Terms

Belize

North and Central America

RCS/Fisher/Y3078A contains:

View in Belize. 390 x 80 mm. A roughly joined panorama of the south side of Belize City consisting of three prints. The view extends to the harbour frontage at the left of the picture and shows a small part of the north side of the city at the right. In the centre of the picture can be seen the original Court House and the Presbyterian Church.
Creator: Avery, William F, fl 1890-1930, photographer.
Fair condition, some faded patches..

Children's Parade at Government [House] Belize. On Coronation Day 1911. 163 x 114 mm. Showing children dressed in white on the lawn of Government House during a parade to celebrate the coronation of George V.
Creator: Plummer, J E, fl 1911.
Fair condition, some yellowing and fading in from edges..

1911

The Parade Ground, Newton Barracks, Belize, on Race Day. 153 x 110 mm. Showing crowds in their best clothes walking beside the race track on Race Day.
Creator: Plummer, J E, fl 1911.
Fair condition, some yellowing..

A typical bush hut, Belize River. 178 x 113 mm. Showing two natives sitting on the steps of a bush house, a wooden cabin on low stilts with a thatched roof.
Creator: Plummer, J E, fl 1911.
Fair condition, some fading in from edges..

Making tortillas in an Indian village. 161 x 119 mm. A view inside an Indian hut showing cooking implements and a small fire. With an Indian woman posing for the camera.
Creator: Plummer, J E, fl 1911.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges..

On the Belize River. 115 x 83 mm. Showing a European man dressed in white, paddling a canoe on the river.
Creator: Plummer, J E, fl 1911.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges..

Cahoun Palm. 154 x 108 mm. Showing a Cahoun palm growing ampong other jungle vegetation.
Creator: Plummer, J E, fl 1911.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

St. John's Cathedral, Belize. 101 x 77 mm. Showing the rather squat Cathedral buildings. Consecrated in 1812, and situated behind Government House at the southern end of Belize City, St. John's was the first Protestant Church in Central America. The church has its place in the traditional friendship between the English and the Mosquito Indians, who helped in the struggle against the Spanish. After 1816, several of the Mosquito kings were crowned in the Cathedral.
Creator: Plummer, J E, fl 1911.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

Residence at the estate 'Never-delay', Old river. 152 x 101 mm. Showing a wooden two-storey house with erandahs on the estate, with horses and a bull in the foreground.
Creator: Avery, William F, fl 1890-1930, photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges..

On the estate 'Never-delay', Old river. 152 x 101 mm. Showing a herd of fenced cattle with jungle in the background and mounted ranch hands in the foreground.
Creator: Avery, William F, fl 1890-1930, photographer.
Fair condition, overall yellowing and slight fading..

On the estate 'Never-delay', Old river. 152 x 102 mm. Showing cattle and horses grazing on cleared land. Written in ink on the front of the print is 'Note the Cahoun palms' of which several specimens are visible.
Creator: Avery, William F, fl 1890-1930, photographer.
Fair condition, some fading in from edges..

On the estate 'Never-delay', Old river, trucking mahogany, [signed] Avery. 152 x 101 mm. Showing bullock teams dragging carts loaded with mahogany trunks under the charge of the Honduran estate workers.
Creator: Avery, William F, fl 1890-1930, photographer.
Fair condition, some fading in from edges..

Group of labourers at estate 'Never-delay', Old river with boss mixed up [sic]. 152 x 102 mm. Showing Mr Stuart (written in ink on print) standing at the centre of a group of Honduran estate labourers. Mr Stuart wears a gun and holster while some of the workers carry implements indicative of their crafts - saws, hammers, scythes and axes. The caption was probably written by a native assistant of Avery's with an unsure command of English (the rather unformed handwriting strengthens this supposition).
Creator: Avery, William F, fl 1890-1930, photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

Near Stann Creek Railway. 152 x 111 mm. A view looking across a banana plantation near Stann Creek with mountains in the distance.
Creator: Boyle, - , fl 1911, chief engineer.
Fair condition, overall yellowing..

Loaded fruit cars at Stann Creek Station. 152 x 110 mm. Showing two freight trucks of the British Honduras Railway loaded with bananas ready for transportation.
Creator: Boyle, - , fl 1911, chief engineer.
Fair condition, overall yellowing..

Commerce Bight Pier, Stann Creek. 152 x 110 mm. A view looking down the railway track which runs along the pier towards a freight car being unloaded on to a morred cargo steamer (the 'Angella').
Creator: Boyle, - , fl 1911, chief engineer.
Fair condition, overall yellowing..