Native Cane Mill, Jamaica
Jamaican industry was struggling against fierce rivalry of production volumes from the great European Nations manufactures. Photograph showing West Indies women bringing sugarcane, balanced on their heads to be put through the wooden press mill, powered by a horse drawn. The sugarcane juice and molasses was made into rum
Picture No
12018075
Media ID
47658992
Size
5544px x 4113px
(3.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by James Johnston in The Queen's Empire', volume 2, page 160 also in Peoples of All Nations, edited by J A Hammerton, Harmsworth, No.7, June 1922
Date
late 1890s
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