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Promenade Gardens Band Stand, Georgetown, British Guiana 1920

Historical Guyana in Pictures

‘The soul never thinks without a picture’ Aristotle

By Dmitri Allicock with Christopher Jeffery

The Botanical Gardens 1910

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The Colonial Bank in Georgetown, British Guiana 1910

St. Andrew's Kirk, Stabroek Georgetown, British Guiana- 1906

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Georgetown 1910

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Main Street [Top] Waterloo Street [Bottom] 1920

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High Street -1900 [Top] Hand-in-hand building, as viewed from High St.1913 [Bottom]

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Georgetown 1910

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Georgetown 1920

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British Guiana and Georgetown 1920s

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The New Amsterdam hospital, Berbice- 1920

The Georgetown Public Hospital, British Guiana -1940s

The New Amsterdam Hospital, Berbice- 1920

The Georgetown Public Hospital, British Guiana -1940s

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Bourda Market Georgetown 1890s- [Top] Plantain Market Georgetown 1910- [Bottom]

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An 1888 drawing - Intersection of High Street and New North Street- Georgetown

An engraving of Water St. Georgetown by Milton Prior- published in the illustrated

London News on April 23rd, 1888

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Loading barrels of rum- Bookers Wharf April 10, 1924

Sprostons Dock, Georgetown- 1930

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Georgetown, British Guiana, back in the year 1880.

View of Georgetown from the lighthouse in Kingston -1880

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Donkey Cart, Stabroek, Georgetown- 1910

Church and Wellington Street Corner 1923

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British Guiana Bank- circa 1900

The Public Free Library Georgetown -1920

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School Children Demerara- circa 1900

Ship yard Georgetown 1922

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Demerara Railway- circa 1900 Carmichael Street and canal 1903

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Main Street Georgetown, March 10, 1928

South Road and Croal Street, Georgetown 1880

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Robb Street, Georgetown, 1915

In front of Stabroek Market, Georgetown, circa1920

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1897 Sprostons Railway [DER] discharging cargo Upper Demerara circa 1900

Wismar Terminus of the Sproston’s Wismar to Rockstone Railway under construction,

circa 1900

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Rockstone Terminus of the Sprostons Railway- Essequibo, circa 1900

Steam winch for kanting Greenheart, Wismar – Sprostons Railway circa early 1900s

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Tracks of the Sprostons Railway and sailboats, Wismar, Upper Demerara- circa 1900

Wismar showing Sprostons Railway from Cakatara Creek later called Mackenzie-

circa1900

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Steamer loading bauxite, Upper Demerara,1920

Loading bauxite by hands- Akyma, Upper Demerara, 1917

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British Guiana Amerindians, 1907

Amerindian quarters, British Guiana, 1897

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An interior location in British Guiana, circa 1890

Amerindians-1908

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Vlissengen Road, Georgetown, British Guiana, 1904

East Indians girls, British Guiana, 1910

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Victoria Law Court and Croal Street 1910

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Gold mining, British Guiana, 1910

British Guiana interior, 1904