Do you Know where this is?

[lazaroonie]

i do not believe this to be south america. to be honest it looks more like southern states usa to me - I can see electricity pylons, if you are sure this is around 1890 ?

[Tonji]

Thanks Sark,

Yes you are right about the slavery connection. In the late 19th Century the importance & value of hardwood timber, meant Europeans headed off to Brazil & other South American countries to make fortunes, & they used the local people as cheap labour, & treated them as slaves.

I've tried clocks-towers-south america & other variations on google image & no match.

[Sark79]

I found a clock tower earlier in Mississippi that looked similar. We may be getting somewhere  .  It could be the Caribbean, South of American  or the USA...lol  . 

[Tonji]

yes laz, i've considered that, in fact it was my first thought that it's in the southern states, but a friend of mine in the USA teaches American History, & her opinion was that its not America (she explained why in a long email), so i've been following other leads.

thanks laz.

keep any thoughts coming.

[Sark79]

ok,  in one of the pics ( the first one of the clock ) in the far left. There seems to be a car or something that looks like a car. Maybe a Model-T.  This might just be my eyes playing tricks with me  . In this case, it may be slightly later around 1918 ish, and America.

In the other pic. There are palm trees ( Florida or the Caribbean, West Indies ).  There is a telephone pylon and an electricity pylon ( probably the southern US ) .

[Sark79]

You aren't CIA are you Tonji and this is some kind of recruiting exercise? 

[Trace]

I google imaged railroad stations, nearly 40 pages of pics and was looking promising but no joy!

[Trace]

Yea I think you are right. It is Caribbean, rather than South American.   

What kind of pylons are they? 

telegraph poles?

might sound daft but what about New Orleans?

[Sark79]

Yea you could be right Trace.  We will add it to the growing list  . 

ok, so we know that it isn't Russia, Europe , Australasia, Middle East and the Far East.  Everywhere else is a possibility.

[Nem]

A guess.

George Town Guyana

[Tonji]

Nemisis, youre a genius.

I now got it.

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cove/6418/stabroek.htm

Its Stabroek Market, in Georgetown.

Nemisis have you been there?

[Nem]

Nemisis, youre a genius.

I now got it.

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cove/6418/stabroek.htm

Its Stabroek Market, in Georgetown.

Nemisis have you been there?

No, LOL.

[bolt pp]

kinda loses its mystique in colour.

[Tonji]

BTW thanks all (particularly Nemesis, you have a brain the size of a planet), for the help.
Now I got the location, I can get this collection catalogued & sold.

[Tonji]

Well Nemisis, its a hell of a guess. Looking at a map, I can see why there looked to be a Carribean feel to the place.