| Shade-grown tobacco in Porto Rico |
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| St. Augustine, Florida, from the old Spanish fortress |
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| A policeman of Havana |
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| Cuba’s new presidential palace |
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| Venders of lottery tickets in rural Cuba |
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| The winning numbers of the lottery |
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| Pigeons are kept to clear the tobacco fields of insects |
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| Ploughing for tobacco in the famous Vuelta Abajo district. The large building is a tobacco barn, the small ones are residences of the planters |
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| A Cuban shoemaker |
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| Cuban soldiers |
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| Matanzas, with drying sisal fiber in the foreground |
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| The Central Plaza of Cienfuegos |
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| A principal street of Santa Clara |
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| The Central Plaza of Santa Clara |
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| A dairyman, Santa Clara district |
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| Cuban town scenery |
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| A Cuban residence in a new clearing |
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| Planting sugar-cane on newly cleared land |
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| Hauling cane to a Cuban sugar-mill |
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| A station of a Cuban pack train |
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| Cuban travelers |
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| A Cuban milkman |
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| A street of Santiago de Cuba |
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| Not all Chinamen succeed in Cuba |
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| The entire enlisted personnel of the Haitian Navy |
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| A school in Port au Prince |
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| The central square and Cathedral of Port au Prince on market day |
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| Looking down upon the market from the cathedral platform |
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| A Haitian gendarme |
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| The president of Haiti |
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| A street in Port au Prince |
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| The unfinished presidential palace of Haiti, on New Year’s Day, 1920 |
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| A Haitian country home |
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| A small portion of one collection of captured caco war material |
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| The caco in the foreground killed an American Marine |
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| Captain Hanneken and “General Jean” Conzé at Christophe’s Citadel |
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| Ruins of the old French estates are to be found all over Haiti |
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| A Haitian wayside store |
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| The market women of Haiti sell everything under the sun—A “General” in a Haitian market |
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| There are still more primitive sugar-mills than these in Haiti |
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| A corner of Christophe’s Citadel. Its situation is such that it could only be well photographed from an airplane |
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| The ruins of Christophe’s palace of San Souci |
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| The mayor, the judge, and the richest man of a Haitian town in the bush |
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| Cockfighting is a favorite Haitian sport |
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| The plaza and clock tower of Monte Cristo, showing its American bullet hole |
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| Railroading in Santo Domingo |
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| The tri-weekly train arrives at Santiago |
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| Dominican guardias |
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| Gen. Deciderio Arias, now a cigar maker, whose revolution finally caused American intervention in Santo Domingo |
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| A bread seller of Santo Domingo |
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| The church within a church of Moca |
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| The “holy place” of Santo Domingo on top of the Santo Cerro where Columbus planted a cross |
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| A Dominican switch engine |
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| A Dominican hearse |
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| American Marines on the march |
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| A riding horse of Samaná |
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| Advertising a typical Dominican theatrical performance |
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| A tree to which Columbus tied one of his ships, now on the wharf of Santo Domingo City |
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| The tomb of Columbus in the cathedral of Santo Domingo City |
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| Ponce de Leon’s palace now flies the Stars and Stripes |
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| Thousands of women work in the fields in Porto Rico |
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| Air-plants grow even on the telegraph wires in Ponce |
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| A hat seller of Cabo Rojo |
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| There is school accommodation for only half the children of our Porto Rico |
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| The home of a lace-maker in Aguadilla |
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| The Porto Rican method of making lace |
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| The place of pilgrimage for pious Porto Ricans |
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| Porto Rican children of the coast lands |
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| The old sugar-kettles scattered through the West Indies have many uses |
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| A corner in Aguadilla |
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| The priest in charge of Porto Rico’s place of pilgrimage |
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| One reason why cane-cutters cannot all be paid the same wages |
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| A procession of strikers in honor of representatives of the A. F. of L. |
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| “How many of you are on strike?” asked Senator Iglesias |
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| The new church of Guayama, Porto Rico |
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| A Porto Rican ex-soldier working as road peon. He gathers the grass with a wooden hook and cuts it with a small sickle |
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| Porto Rican tobacco fields |
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| Charlotte Amalie, capital of our Virgin Islands |
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| A corner of Charlotte Amalie |
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| Picking sea-island cotton, the second of St. Croix products |
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| A familiar sight in St. Croix, the ruins of an old sugar mill and the stone tower of its cane-grinding windmill |
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| A cistern in which rain water is stored for drinking purposes |
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| Roseau, capital of beautiful Dominica |
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| A woman of Dominica bringing a load of limes down from the mountain |
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| Kingstown, capital of St. Vincent |
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| Trafalgar Square, Bridgetown, Barbados, with its statue of Nelson |
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| The Prince of Wales lands in Barbados |
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| The principal street of Bridgetown, decorated in honor of its royal visitor |
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| Barbadian porters loading hogsheads of sugar always take turns riding back to the warehouse |
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| There is an Anglican Church of this style in each of the eleven parishes of Barbados |
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| The turn-out of most Barbadians |
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| A Barbadian windmill |
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| Two Hindus of Trinidad |
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| Trinidad has many Hindu temples |
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| Very much of a lodge |
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| At the “Asphalt Lake” |
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| There is water, too, in the crevices of the asphalt field |
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| As I passed this group on a Jamaican highway, the woman reading the Bible was saying “So I ax de Lard what I shall do” |
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| “Draw me portrait please, sir!” The load consists of school books and a pair of hobnail shoes |
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| A very frequent sight along the roads of Jamaica |
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| Our baggage following us ashore in one of the French islands |
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| Private graveyards are to be found all over Jamaica |
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| A street of Basse Terre, capital of Guadeloupe |
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| A woman of Guadeloupe |
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| The town criers of Pointe à Pitre |
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| In the outskirts of Guadeloupe’s commercial capital |
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| Fort de France, capital of Martinique |
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| The savane of Fort de France, with the Statue of Josephine, once Empress of the French |
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| Women of Martinique |
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| A principal street of Fort de France with its cathedral |
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| The shops of Martinique are sometimes as gaily garbed as the women |
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| Empress Josephine was born where this house stands |
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| The St. Pierre of to-day with Pélée in the background |
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| The cathedral of St. Pierre |
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| The present residents of St. Pierre tuck their houses into the corners of old stone ruins |
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| The harbor of Curaçao |
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| A woman of Curaçao |
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| The principal Dutch island is not noted for its verdure |
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| A Curaçao landscape |
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| MAP |
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| The itinerary of the author |
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