B/w print
Acc.no: PEZPH : 1989.1150
Identification
Item: A Banana Tree, probably in Morrab Gardens, Penzance.
Description: J J Churchward was commissioned to take photographs for the official tourist guides to illustrate the gentle climate found in West Cornwall. This photograph of an unidentified lady holding the fruit on a banana tree, is thought to be in Morrab Gardens, Penzance. The tourist guides were designed to attract early visitors to experience the warmth and the early flower and extend the length of the tourist season to the late autumn. A precedent had been set when the Napoleonic wards brought tourists to the West Country rather than to the continent. Rail travel from the 1850s made the experience even more viable.
Condition: Good -
Description
Height: Mm
Width: Mm
Material: Photograph
Production
Method: Printed
Date: 1948
Person: Churchward, J J
Place: Penzance
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