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A photograph of a village street lined with kapok trees. There are several huts on the other behind the trees.

Shows street tree of St. Vincent, Thespesia populnea - paved streets, with no irrigation for the trees. They are however widely spaced and would be able to utilize the water which falls on a wide area of surface. [Shantz travel journal, July 28,…

A photograph of a stream with ferns and tropical vegetation on the side and back.

A photograph of a stream with tall grass and vegetation along the bank as well as a forest in the background.

A photograph taken over a stream with tall grass and forest vegetation surrounding the stream.

Stream, banana, fig. Banana and corn in the back. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

A stream with Potamogeton papyrus and the river Ficus at Punta Malia. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Euphorbia, acacia, a beautiful pink tubular flowered (Phlox like) shrub, rock, stream in fore. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Fiber mallow at water's edge - banana and forest back. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

Stream and elephant grass in fore, manihot in back, sisal on hill under Manihot glaz[iovii]. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

A photograph of a stream with tall grass and vegetation along the bank as well as a forest in the background.

A photograph of a golden crested or straw crested crane standing outside.

The stone foundation was evacuated and flooded as part of Falcon Reservoir. The level of the Reservoir has been lowered, revealing the overgrown streets, foundations, and sidewalks. The property is now owned by a local rancher, and is being used for…

Stipa shrub-cover with bay of Kigoma in the back. On the alluvial bottom soil the tall Andropogons predominate. But on the gravel the tall Stipa like grass, an open bunch grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

Stipa grassland and bushes in fore - Kigoma in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]