Title

'Sponge Market, Nassau, Bahamas', 1930s. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'Sponge Market, Nassau, Bahamas', 1930s. At the height of the Bahamian sponge industry at the turn of the 20th century, the sponge fleet consisted of some 600 vessels. Sponges were cleaned and trimmed in the warehouse, and then taken to the packing yard, where they were laid out to dry in the sun and sorted by quality. [W. R. Saunders and I.O Sands]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1930

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D48_044

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

72,4Mb (3,2Mb) / 21,1in x 13,3in / 6340 x 3991 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings female women woman people black male job man men West Indies indies Caribbean worker market trade warehouse guy occupation color colour Bahamas factory Nassau location century profession sponge export thirties lady 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 photograph postcard