Showing posts with label 1922. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1922. Show all posts

18 September 2019

Camaria Landing, Cuyuni River, Essequibo


Image 01 - Watercolor image showing the scene at Camaria Landing, Cuyuni River (1922)

Sources:

[image01] - Booker Brothers, Demerara




Bel Air Park Race Course, Georgetown


Image 01 - Tracks of the Bel Air Park Racecourse (1915)

Image 02 - Grand Stands at the Bel Air Park Racecourse (1922)

Sources:

[image01] - Unknown
[image02] - Unknown



2 May 2019

18 April 2017

The Taruma people of British Guiana

The Taruma people lived mostly in the extreme south of British Guiana. In the early 1900s they were exposed to influenza due to external contact. It seems these people have disappeared out of the history of British Guiana and Guyana.

Image 1 - Members of a Taruma village (1900s)

Image 2 - Taruma boys at breakfast (1922)

Sources:
[Image 1] Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 1900
[Image 2] R.G Humphrey, 1922