Title

'Esfakis' - Sponge Packing House - Nassau, Bahamas', c1930s. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'Esfakis' - Sponge Packing House - Nassau, Bahamas', c1930s. Women processing sponges for export, cleaning and trimming them in the warehouse. The sponges were then taken to the packing yard, where they were laid out to dry in the sun and sorted by quality. [Sands' Studio]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1930

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D47_452

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

72,6Mb (3,4Mb) / 21,2in x 13,3in / 6371 x 3984 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings female women woman people black working work job West Indies indies Caribbean worker trade warehouse occupation color colour Bahamas factory Nassau location century profession sponge export thirties lady concept sponges hand-tinted Factory Worker New Providence 1930s 20th century hand tinted workers The Print Collector North and Central America TGN hand coloured photograph postcard Unknown hand-coloured Christodoulos Esfakis Esfakis Christodoulos Christodoulos Esfakis photograph postcard