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Catalogue Reference:(PRO) INF 10/44/005

Women positioning sugar cane plants in trenches ready for planting in a field in Barbados in 1955. The men in the background of the picture are doing the actual planting. At this date sugar was the principal export crop grown in Barbados.

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