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West Indies

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Islands of the Atlantic

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Images about West Indies

18 images from works
  • A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.
  • A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique, contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les mœurs, le religion & le gouvernement des habitans anciens et modernes. Les guerres & les evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez pendant le séjour que l'auteur y a fait / Par le r. p. Labat.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • A Brazilian sassafras tree (Aniba species) and a Petunia plant in an exotic landscape with snakes, lizards and tribal people. Etching, c. 1671.
  • Elephantiasis in the right leg of an inhabitant of the West Indies. Photograph.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.

Works from the collections

166 works

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    A reprieve from death : in two physical chapters, viz. Chap. I. Objections against the use of vinegar, or other acids, to prevent or cure the epidemic and mortal fever of the West-Indies ... Chap. II. Reasons why all medicines should be freely published. With an appendix ... / By John Tennent.

    Tennent, John, 1710-1748. | Date: 1741
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    Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

    | Date: [1671] | Reference: 24654i
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    List of publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

    | Date: 1927
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    Colonial and Indian Exhibition : official guide.

    Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886 : London, England) | Date: 1886
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    Notes by a field-naturalist in the western tropics : from a journal kept on board the Royal Mersey steam yacht "Argo" / by Henry H. Higgins.

    Higgins, Henry H. (Henry Hugh), 1814-1893. | Date: 1877

Related topics

Central America
History, 18th Century
Botany
Yellow Fever
United Kingdom
Tropical Medicine
Jamaica
Latin America
Indians, Central American
Mexico

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