Surviving Storms // Archival Documents // Hurricane of 1930 | Administrator’s Dispatch

Hurricane of 1930 | Administrator’s Dispatch

Anouk Whiting-Ferrolho

// 14.07.2022

Access the documents:

Photographic Damage Report Photos

Various Dispatch Documents (administrator damage and weather reports, newspaper cuttings, telegraphs)

Dispatch Letter on Destruction to Lime Crops

Description by Anouk:

This box, titled ‘Hurricane in Dominica (with photographs and newspaper cuttings)’, included 14 photographs depicting hurricane damage to radio masts, buildings, boats and trees; as well as a dispatch letter to the Leeward Islands Governor in Antigua, from Administrator E.C. Eliot in Dominica; and newspaper cuttings and telegraphs.

Anouk’s reflections:

On the photographs of the destructions

On a letter about the destruction of lime crops by administrator E.C. Eliot