The Digital Philatelist

Water-skiing was introduced to the Bahamas by Captain D’arcy Rutherford who had moved from London to Nassau in the 1930’s. By March 1940 he had established the first Bahamian Ladies Water-Ski Competition. With the introduction of tourism in the 1950’s, water-skiing became a popular Bahamian sport. Stamps & Postal Products…

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  Henry McGrew Printing Inc was located in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm specialised in colour printing including postcards, brochures, catalogues and sales brochures. Postcards 611700 Series

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Hannau Color Productions was established by Dr Hans Walter Hannau who had fled Austria when Adolf Hitler rose to power. Hannau became recognized as one of the foremost colour photographers in America. By 1953/54, Hannau signed a sales agreement with Robinson Printers Inc. Under his firm’s name Hannau Color Productions,…

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Clifton Pier is located in the South West of New Providence. Clifton Pier was the site of a steam power station providing electricity for the Bahamas Electrical Corporation. It was also used as an alternate port for landing cruise passengers when adverse weather conditions prevented anchorage at Nassau. The ships would…

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Sir Walter Kingsbury Moore (1883 – 1957) was a merchant and the largest exporter of Bahamian sisal hemp and marine products (tortoise and sea shells).He exported Cascarilla Bark, Siftlings, Brown and Pink Cameo and other seashells including shell necklaces and Ambergis. Walter Kingsbury Moore received a CBE (Order of the…

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  Watlings Castle is located on San Salvador Island. This site consists of the ruins of a late 1700s to early 1800s building called the Sandy Point plantation manor house. The plantation was constructed during the Loyalist Era from blocks of local Pleistocene calcarenite limestone. The substantial ruins include a three-story…

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Market Street, Nassau, was originally known as Farm Road. The street was named Farm Road as it was the principal route for bringing produce to the market in Nassau. In 1849, Market Street was in dire need of resurfacing, drainage, and an access route to the city. In order to…

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  The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) is a social wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in both South and North America. Plume hunting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries almost drove the roseate spoonbill to extinction. The roseate spoonbill’s pink color is…

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In 1936 an American investor named Austin Levy set up a dairy and poultry farm on thousands of acres at Hatchet Bay on Eleuthera. By 1956, about 100 head of the 350 head herd of Holstein and Guernsey cattle were being milked producing about 180-190 galleons of milk per day supplying milk and ice…

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Hobby Horse Hall in Nassau, was opened in 1792. The race track was named Hobby Horse Hall, after a popular children’s toy at the time. In February 1958 a fire destroyed most of the facilties and it was rebuilt and upgraded, reopening in 1960. This included a new grandstand and…

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