Janus: Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

RCS/Y3011C-N/Y3011E contains:
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43	Daniel Parke, Governor of Antigua. Killed 1710
44	[Arrival of Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig Holstein in Antigua, March 29 1913]
45	[Welcoming Princess Marie Louise to Antigua]
46	[Princess Marie Louise inspecting the Guard of Honour]
47	[Arrival of Princess Marie Louise in Antigua]
48	[Street decorations in St. John's Antigua, in honour of the visit of Princess Marie Louise]
49	[Street decorations in St. John's Antigua in honour of the visit of Princess Marie Louise]
50	[Group at Government House, St. John's]
51	[Address of welcome to Antigua presented to Princess Marie Louise 1913]
52	[Arrival of Princess Marie Louise in St. John's]
53	My house at Zaria in 1913
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Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

Title	[Street decorations in St. John's Antigua, in honour of the visit of Princess Marie Louise]
Reference	Y3011E/48
Creator	Anjo, José, c 1870-1950, photographer
Covering Dates	Mar. 29 1913
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

Content and context

245 x 197 mm. A view looking along High Street, St. John's, with crowds lining the roadway and a large decorated arch of welcome in the foreground. Bell's description of the Princess' visit, and his assessment of her character, can be found in a letter in which he mentions the success of the decorations: 'The decorations etc were really extraordinarily good and the local photographer [Jose Anjo] has taken a lot of excellent pictures of them.' (Bell 1913, April 6).

Further information

For photographs of the Princess's visit see Y3011E/44-52 and 54-56.

Indexed

CN/CUL Y3011E/48.

Index Terms

North and Central America

Saint Johns

West Indies

Anjo, José (c 1870-1950) photographer

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