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| Picture No | 12018075 |
| Date | late 1890s |
| Description | Native Cane Mill, Jamaica |
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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.
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| 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 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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