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Frontstreet looking West from the Convent Building	The Old Courthouse in all its former glory	A busy day at the old Princess Juliana Airport
Old Princess Juliana Airport with K.L.M. plane	Sea View Hotel as seen from Great Bay	Bridge at Simpsonsbay
Gathering salt in the Great Salt Pond	When cotton was King, Hope Estate	Attending Mass at the Roman Catholic Church in Philipsburg
Heaping up the salt in the salt “lots”	Mary’s Fancy Estate Great House, home of Mr. “D.C.” van Romondt	Belvedere Estate Great House in glory days when it was owned by Johannes van Romeondt, 1916
The first car imported into St. Maarten was for Alexander van Romondt on January 4th, 1917.Thoto shows two cars on the Square	When it was still possible to take a leisurely stqroll on Frontstreet	View of Philipsburg, 1951
Landing Place, St. Maarten	Mr. D.C. van Romondt “King of Tintamarre” seated among his forefathers	Aristocratic plantation owner Lewis August van Romondt, with wife Henrietta Brouwer and children Fritz (left), Lewis (right) and Kees (center), 1929. He owned Bellevue Estate on French side and The Vineyards on Dutch side
A visiting delegation from parliament. Far left: Commissioner Milton Peters, far right: Lt. Governor J.J. Beaujon	Formal dinner at residence of Lt. Governeor J.C. Paap. Among those seated at the table are Mayor L.C. Flemming and his wife Yvette, Mr. Lionel Bernard Scot and Mr. William Benjamin Peterson (local councilors), Governor Piet Kasteel and Inspector of Schools Goslinga, 1948	Hauling in the seine
Davis family home on left next to the Methodist Chapel	The Old Methodist Manse on Backstreet	The Vineyard, Estate home of Alexander van Romondt
A busy day on Frontstreet in former times	Philipsburg. View of Frontstreet looking East, 1900	Old Bridge over the fresh pond
Opposite the “Scale House”, Mr. John Samson with stick in hand	On the left the first of two Carty family mansions which were destroyed by fire	The Roman Catholic Church in Philipsburg
Pupils of the old “Convent School” with Sister Regina (left) and Sister Agnes (right)	Joseph H. Lake, Sr. Editor/Publisher of the newspaper “ Windward Islands Opinion”	Upstreet opposite Pasanggrahan Hotel
Pasanggrahan with next to it old D.C. van Romondt mansion	Backstreet, 1906	Frontstreet, 1906
Announcing the “catch of the day” (Marigot)	Backstreet at the turn of the century	Market day in Marigot
Mainstreet Marigot in what was considered a busy day	Government schooner “Blue Peter” being driven ashore in gale of 1959	On board the government-owned schooner “Blue Peter” which for many years was the only regular means of transportation between St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius
View of Great Bay and the surrounding hills	The Old Convent and Convent Boarding School	Marigot in former years
A.C. Wathey mansion which was destroyed by fire in 1941	Editor A.R. Brouwer (left) on Cole Bay Well with author Steve Kruythoff, his wife Helen Crossley and two of their children, 1937	Mr. William Frederick Adolphus Labega
View of De Ruyter Square	Downstreet in front of the Sea View Hotel	View of Philipsburg with saltheaps visible along the shores of the Great Salt Lake
Partial view of Great Bay Harbour with schooners waiting to load salt for Nova Scotia	Scenic view of Philipsburg	The Great Salt Pond
Parade passing old Roman Catholic church in Philipsburg commemorating three hundred years of Dutch/French rule, 1948	Author Will Johnson (next to Jeep) and Arnold Scot, both Postal employees, on their way home to lunch, 1960	Philipsburg, anno 1897
View of Marigot and Simpsonsbay Lagoon	First church and school of Simpsonsbay	Former Roman Catholic Church, Philipsburg
Roman Catholic Church and School at Simpsonsbay	Ceremony inauguration border monument, 1948. Left: H. Governor Piet Kasteel (Ducth), right: Mayor Louis Constant Flemming (French)	Ceremonies at the dedication of the border monument, 1948
Backstreet, anno 1897. Large two-storeyed house kwown "Dicky Dick's" town residence, now home to Harbour Lights restaurant

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