IDNO

P.99655.ACH2

Description

Display of a collection of fruits and vegetables grown as ‘colonial produce’ with labels identifying them. The display includes samples of the following plant produce:
vegetable marrow; star apples; limes; calabash; sapodolas; guavas; pumpkin; mangoes; breadfruit; coconut; coffee; apricots; tamarinds; popuay; sour sop; shaddock; oranges; cocoa; wild tobacco; bananas; cotton; plantain; yams; bell apples; cashew; chilli peppers; tannias; coad peppers; pineapple; cassava; cochineal; sweet potatoes; lemon grass; ginger; aloes; arrowroot; sorrell; and sugar cane.

Place

S America; Guyana

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

1880 - 1910

Collection Name

?Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Album Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99643 to P.99673 are in A.173. The album was formerly kept in paper archive envelope WO6/1/12; Box 174. It has now been transferred to the photo archive.

Source: A stamp inside the album mentions it to be a Haddon gift.

This album has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [S. Guha 17/11/2004]