An image showing 'WEM/6; Commercial photograph of eight young South Asian women sat in a group. Original caption: 'Coolies Trinidad'. Crown Copyright.'

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Photograph album, 1887-1890.

Photographs of HMS CANADA, North America, HMS VOLAGE, North Sea, HMS POLYPHEMUS, Malta and pictures of Greenwich Hospital, 1887-1890. Includes photograph of female "coolies" [indentured labourers] from Trinidad, page 12.

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Object Details

ID:	WEM/6
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Wemyss, Vice-Edward William Elphinstone
Date made:	1887-1890-12-31; 1887-01-01 - 1890-12-31 1887-1890
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Wemyss, Edward William Elphinstone, Vice-Admiral, 1866-1938. (Manuscript) Midshipman's journal kept on HMS SUPERB and HMS MONARCH, 1881-1884. (Manuscript) (WEM/1) Midshipman's journal kept on HMS MONARCH and HMS PILOT, 1884-1885. (Manuscript) (WEM/2) Photograph album, 1882. (Manuscript) (WEM/3) Photograph album, 1882-1887. (Manuscript) (WEM/4) Photograph album, 1887-1889. (Manuscript) (WEM/5) Photograph album, 1887-1890. (Manuscript) (WEM/6) Photograph album, 1909-1911. (Manuscript) (WEM/7) Newspaper and magazine cuttings, 1900-1910. (Manuscript) (WEM/8) Printed books, 1873. (Manuscript) (WEM/9) Photograph album, circa 1904. (Manuscript) (WEM/10) Photograph album, circa 1899. (Manuscript) (WEM/11) Printed book, 1914. (Manuscript) (WEM/12) Printed book, 1875. (Manuscript) (WEM/13)