Guyana

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Photograph of Castilloa elastica plants at the Plantation Anna Regina in Essequibo, [Guyana, South America] in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of Funtumia Elastica, an African rubber tree with medicinal properties, at the Experiment Station in Issororo, Guyana, South America.

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Letter in English from Janet Alice Chalmers (née Lorimer) to Hannah Stodart on the subject of life in British Guyana and racial differences, dated 22 October c.1885.

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Letter in English from Janet Alice Chalmers (née Lorimer) to unknown on the subject of life in British Guyana, dated 22 October, year unknown.

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Photograph of a man with a scythe next to a Manihot glaziovii tree on a plantation at Rupununi, [Guyana] in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a man standing next to a Mimusops globosa tree showing cuts from tapping from the book, 'Rubber and Balata in British Guiana' in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents A tranche of material acquired in 2012 is composed of diaries and journals, notebooks, notes, talks and broadcast scripts, letters, newspaper clippings, more specifically: Box containing school reports, a copy of school newspaper, and letters: Merchant Taylors’ School (Crosby) Terminal Reports, Summer Term 1930 to Winter Term 1936; a copy of Merchant Taylors School newspaper, ‘Weekly Echo’, No.1. (ed....