Native Women Coaling a Ship at St. Thomas, D.W.I.
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Native Women Coaling a Ship at St. Thomas, D.W.I. (1903)
Women natives of the Danish West Indies are coaling ship with baskets of coal which they carry on their heads. They walk up a long gang plank and dump their loads into a coal chute on the side of the ship. Taken very close and shows the women to good advantage.
