English: Emmanuel Geoffroy, « Rapport de mission à la Martinique et à la Guadeloupe », Annales de l'Institut colonial de Marseille, vol. 4, 5th year,‎ 1897, p. 16.

Legend : « Négresse de la Guadeloupe vendant des gousses de kola dans la rue » ["Black woman from Guadeloupe selling kola in the stret"]

At the date of that photo (1897 at the latest), kola is a new produce in Guadeloupe. In the Carribean, it started in Martinique with a single specimen in 1882. Upon the request of Édouard Heckel, it was then multiplied from its own seeds and its numerous seedlings freely given to the inhabitants. Subsequently, Louis-Mathieu Guesde, from the Chambre d'Agriculture in Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, followed the same policy to enlarge the spreading of that species. This photo is a testimony to the success of Heckel's policy for that valuable produce in the French Carribean islands.