[BAHAMA ISLANDS]

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[BAHAMA ISLANDS] Produced: 1920

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Tenement, people sitting on second floor porch - natives pose in street - open air market, produce, vendors, customers - group on porch, old man dances, boy plays stringed instrument - sailboat, several boys dive from side, play in water - pelican at water’s edge - tourists in tropical park - building, piles of sponges, natives sort sponges into baskets - funeral procession on foot enters church yard, priests enter church, procession follows - open air market scenes showing produce, vendors, customers, children - burro-drawn carts, one carrying two native women at watering trough, horse-drawn carriage - small boats in harbor, some being rowed with long oars attached to right side of stern - waterfront activity - workers carrying firewood from boat up beach - close-up of native boy on deck of sailboat - officer of boat beating boy with whip and kicking him - picture from the deck of the sailboat ‘Irene and May’ - sailboat and land from boat - piles of salt on beach, truck - city from a high point, houses, harbor - workers carrying bags of salt, loading them into small boats - burro-drawn cart of salt, truckloads of salt, unloaded on beach by workers with shovels - workers piling wood onto beach from small boat - priest in white robes - native procession, men with bands across chests and flags, ladies with parasols, walk along, street, enter compound - native musicians play for flag ceremony. [1920]

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/90802

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