Barbados windmill

front of 2024.1007.234

front of 2024.1007.234

Name/Title

Barbados windmill

Entry/Object ID

2024.1007.234

Description

Photo sent home to family by John Lamson during or after WWI Windmill photo with caption "Sugar Mill Bridgetown, Barbados R&Dfro" Letter on backside of postcard

Context

John Lamson was a MM1c on Battleship Texas from May 1917 to June 1919. Throughout his time on Texas, he sent a letter to his family at least once a week, often more. Longer stretches of absence are explained either by movement across the Atlantic, or with the Grand Fleet. Sailors and Marines often bought things from the cities they made port in, regardless of wartime or peacetime.

Collection

Collection (John F. Lamson), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects