Collection Highlights
142 photos
Government Houses
69 photos
French Guiana
1 photo
Luxury Cruise to Bermuda, 1939
12 photos
Giraud
1 photo
1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak, Martinique
2 photos
Lumber
1 photo
Sugar Production
9 photos
Santiago de Cuba
13 photos
Havana
24 photos, 3 videos
All St John
1 photo
All Puerto Rico
10 photos, 1 video
All Dominican Republic
4 photos
All Guatemala
2 photos
All Costa Rica
9 photos
1890 Fort de France Fire
4 photos
Castries
34 photos
E.L. Edwards
1 photo
Anton Brothers
1 photo
Films about St Lucia
2 videos
Les Saintes
3 photos
Studio Portraits - Bermuda
9 photos
J.E. Brown
17 photos
Albert Knox Dawson
15 photos
Henri Cunge
1 photo
Darrell
2 photos
Armand Duperly
4 photos
Glass Slides
183 photos
Venezuela Crisis of 1902-1903
10 photos
H.C. White
45 photos
J. Depaz
17 photos
Gaston Emerigon Fabre
9 photos
Born in Saint-Pierre in Martinique in 1827, Fabre opened a studio in his hometown in 1851. He made daguerreotype portraits. He also worked in Guadeloupe and Tahiti. Rewarded for his images of...
Kendall Studios
2 photos
Stereoviews
274 photos
Studio Labels & Logos
24 photos
Carte de Visites
53 photos
Cabinet Cards
19 photos
Negatives
65 photos
Lithographs & Woodcuts
5 photos
Engravings From Daguerreotypes
8 photos
Daguerreotypes
3 photos
Jamaica Photo Postcards
42 photos
Adolphe Duperly
10 photos
James M. Davis
4 photos
J.E. Brown/Brown & Dawson
17 photos
Stamford, CtT
Norton Bros.
2 photos
W.K. Blomfield
3 photos
R.J. MacPherson
3 photos
Russell Bros., & Moncrieff
4 photos
Desnaues Brothers
3 photos
J.S. Thompson
8 photos
J.B. Valdez
1 photo
Geo. W. Davis
6 photos
O. Bavastro
4 photos
C.H. Graves
46 photos
J.W.C. Brennan
5 photos
Valentine - alternate takes
14 photos
Same location/different photographers
27 photos
Tobacco Cultivation, Jamaica
1 photo
Livestock, Jamaica
5 photos
Studio Portraits - Bermuda
7 photos
F.A. Freeman & Co
7 photos
Douglas Cornhill
61 photos
Active 1926-1952. Cornhill started off working in his parents' photography shop in Duke Street in Chelmsford Essex UK, and then worked for Marine Services on behalf of cruise line companies such as...
All St. Barthelemy
3 photos
A.W. Robinson
1 photo
Franklin D. Edmonds
4 photos
Films About Grenada
1 video
Films about The Virgin Islands
1 video
Kilburn Brothers
13 photos
James B. Heyl
3 photos
Studio Portraits, Martinique
20 photos
Studio Portraits, Trinidad
16 photos
Studio Portraits, Barbados
17 photos
View Album of Trinidad
1 photo
J.W.H. Campion
1 photo
W.G. Cooper
8 photos
Carl C. Lyon
3 photos
S.S. Oslofjord West Indies Cruise, 1939
3 photos
W.H. Whiteman
5 photos
Late 19th century photographer located at 8, Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad
S.S. Ingrid Caribbean Cruise, 1937
51 photos
From an album titled "Cruising The Caribbean". Appears to be a trip taken in 1937 aboard the Norwegian
freighter S.S. Ingrid by four women friends. The ship stopped at St Thomas, St. Kitts,...
Mrs P.F. Bonney Jamaica Album, 1905
56 photos
An album of a trip taken by Mrs P.F. Bonney and friends on the United Fruit Co boat S.S. Admiral Farragut to Port Antonio, Jamaica in 1905
Hazard Family Jamaica Trip, 1904
32 photos
A tourist album of a trip to Jamaica and Cuba in 1904 by decendants of Colonel Augustus George Hazard,an American manufacturer of gunpowder and the namesake of Hazardville, Connecticut. Hazard was...
Dr Benjamin Place Jamaica Album, 1905
81 photos
An album of tourist photographs taken on a trip to Jamaica on the United Fruit Co freighter the S.S. Admiral Schley in 1905 by Dr Benjamin F Place (1855-1925) a dentist who practiced in Norristown,...
Souvenir Books, Trinidad
2 photos
William Davenport
2 photos
Fred R. Case/Case & Lott
9 photos
E.C. Rost
25 photos
Ernest C. Rost was born January 20, 1866, at Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and was probably the son of Christian Rost (a locally known engraver..) and Minna M. Rost. Nothing is known of his childhood.
By the...
Fredericksted, St Croix
3 photos
Sponges
9 photos
Denmark To U.S. Ceremony
5 photos
Le Carbet
8 photos
S.S. Orizaba Album
24 photos
Hutton Album
8 photos
Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago Album, ca 1880
66 photos
All Venezuela
10 photos, 1 video
All Unidentified
13 photos
All Suriname
30 photos
Phos Guadeloupe/Martinique album
68 photos
Phos
83 photos
Edgar Littée, aka Phos (1866-1931)
Son of Gustave and Augusta Littée Moreau, a high school teacher of Pointe-à-Pitre (1891), he founded a photography workshop as "Phos" in 1893. He...
Leon Sully
1 photo
Active in Fort de France, Martinique in the 1860s
Jamaica Album
36 photos
Books About Barbados
1 photo
Books About The West Indies
8 photos
Books About Martinique
3 photos
Books About Jamaica
3 photos
Panama City
2 photos
Colon
4 photos
Panama Canal
6 photos
All Panama
14 photos
All Cuba
71 photos, 4 videos
Reminiscences of a Holiday in the West Indies...
59 photos
Dr James Johnston
39 photos
Dr James Johnston, was a Scotsman who made his home in Brown's Town when he came to Jamaica in 1874, and who founded the Jamaica Evangelistic Mission as a breakaway movement from the established...
Plantations St. James, Martinique, 1890
17 photos
Rhum Saint James, from the French Caribbean Island of Martinique, are the only sipping rums dating back to 1765.
When the French King, Louis XIV, banned the sale of rum in France, an enterprising...
Panoramas
8 photos
All Haiti
7 photos, 1 video
WW II in Jamaica
5 photos
Ernesto Bavastro
13 photos
Ernesto Bavastro was a Cuban exile who settled in Jamaica in the 1870s and opened a portrait studio. He made portraist of important Cuban patriots , like the hero Maximo Gomez and other well known...
HMS Changuinola Cruise to Jamaica, 1926
12 photos
Unidentified, Jamaica
8 photos
Other Industry, Jamaica
6 photos
Studio Portraits, Jamaica
55 photos
Railroads, Jamaica
8 photos
Grapefruit
2 photos
A. Sylvester Taylor, Jr.
5 photos
Saba
1 photo
J.H. Horsey
18 photos
Basse Terre, Guadeloupe
4 photos
Notables
14 photos
Jamaica Cruise on S.S. Port Royal, ca 1905
15 photos
West Indies Album, ca 1915
26 photos
All Columbia
5 photos
Spanishtown, Jamaica
41 photos
Railway Construction, Jamaica
13 photos
Hannah P Adams - Martinique and Jamaica,...
71 photos
Mrs. Hannah Philbrook Adams (b. 1858 - d. 1935 ). Married in 1878 to Boston cotton Broker, Phinehas Adams Jr. , the son of the Honorable Phinehas Adams (b. 1814), a very notable resident of...
Films About Haiti
2 videos
Films About Antigua
1 video
Films About Jamaica
8 videos
Films about Montserrat
1 video
Martinique in Color
7 photos
Trinidad in Color
2 photos
St Thomas in Color
5 photos
Barbados in Color
7 photos
William H. Rau
6 photos
William Herman Rau (American, 1855-1920) was a Philadelphian with close ties to that city's photographic activities. The brother of photographer George Rau (and son of coal merchant John Frederick...
Port of Spain
116 photos
William Henry Jackson
15 photos
William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, was one of the most renowned 19th Century landscape photographers of the American West. He was a man of great energy and love for the outdoors and especially the...
Jamaica in Color
27 photos
All Color Photographs
65 photos
Nassau in Color
11 photos
Kingstown
32 photos
Films About Grenada
1 video
Films About Barbados
4 videos
Tobago
4 photos, 4 videos
Churches
18 photos
Government Buildings
40 photos
All St Vincent
67 photos
Vegetables
3 photos
Shipyards
2 photos
Books and Promotional Booklets, Bermuda
4 photos
Nassau Hotels
6 photos
Manuel Auguste Nunes Siza
13 photos
Tourists
44 photos, 8 videos
Sisal & Hemp
3 photos
Barracks
15 photos
Petit-Bourg
5 photos
Houses
30 photos
Cruise Advertisements
4 photos
All Nevis
13 photos
All Antigua
31 photos
Basse Terre
15 photos
Sugar Cane Production, St Kitts
11 photos
All St Kitts
62 photos
La Soufriere
5 photos
Roseau
5 photos
All Dominica
25 photos
Limes
4 photos
1910 Thorne Fire, Barbados
1 photo
July 1910 - N.E. Thorne & Co cotton factory and fertilizing plant burns with a loss of $60,000
1899 Pointe-a-Pitre Fire
1 photo
Livestock
7 photos
Stone
9 photos
Shops & Stores
16 photos
Tobacco
10 photos
Fishing
17 photos
Coal
14 photos
Calabash
4 photos
Markets
68 photos, 2 videos
Street Merchants
34 photos
Pitch
24 photos, 2 videos
Cotton
2 photos
Pineapples
9 photos
Cocoanuts
18 photos
Bananas
52 photos
Cocoa
20 photos
Coffee
22 photos
Sugar & Rum
123 photos
Manioc
3 photos
Merchants, Guadeloupe
22 photos
Sugar Cane Cultivation, Guadeloupe
4 photos
Rum Production, Guadeloupe
5 photos
All Guadeloupe
90 photos
Point-a-Pitre
28 photos
Films about Bermuda
5 videos
Films about the Bahamas
11 videos
Films about Cuba
4 videos
Films about the Caribbean
8 videos
Films about Cucacao
5 videos
Films about Martinique
12 videos
Films about Trinidad and Tobago
11 videos
1902 Soufriere Eruption, St Vincent
10 photos
Cocoanut Cultivation, Jamaica
8 photos
Pineapple Growing - Jamaica
8 photos
Cotton Production, Barbados
1 photo
Sugar Production, Barbados
46 photos
Trinidad Agriculture
20 photos
S.E. Jacobson
5 photos
S.E. Jacobson established a photographic business in Port of Spain, Trinidad, circa 1899. He had previously worked in New York for forty years. In 1905 his studio was at 32 Frederick Street. By 1906...
J. Murray Jordan
108 photos
J. Murray Jordan located at 1438 S. Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA was a photographer who went on to publish and print postcards, mostly views of America’s eastern regions. He also issued cards...
Joseph Le Grand
4 photos
Titchfield Hotel, Port Antonio, Jamaica
18 photos
THE TITCHFIELD HOTEL
The growth of this hotel in Portland is directly linked to the banana trade which expanded in the late 1800s to make Portland the second most important town in Jamaica. By 1902...
Myrtle Bank Hotel, Jamaica
18 photos
THE MYRTLE BANK HOTEL
Built in the mid-1800s, the Myrtle Bank, owned by Scotsman James Gall, was converted from a shipyard into a select boarding house and offered personal advice on health issues....
Constant Spring Hotel, Jamaica
14 photos
THE CONSTANT SPRING HOTEL
Built in preparation for the 1891 Exhibition when over 300,000 visitors were expected on the island, this hotel was located at the end of an electric tram car line about six...
Growing Cocoa, Jamaica
10 photos
Sugar Production, Jamaica
26 photos
In the seventeenth-century Jamaica's tropical climate, along with the transe-Atlantic slave trade, made Jamaica into the world's largest sugar producer. Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth...
Banana Production, Jamaica
47 photos
Jamaica was the first commercial producer of bananas in the Western Hemisphere. Thanks in part to shipping and refrigeration, bananas were able to be sent long distances. Elders and Fyffes...
Coffee Cultivation, Jamaica
10 photos
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is a classification of coffee grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The best lots of Blue Mountain coffee are noted for their mild flavor and lack of bitterness. Over...
Jamaica Ads & Booklets
7 photos
All Montserrat
2 photos
O. Pierre Havens
8 photos
Born in Ossining, New York, O. Pierre Havens moved to Savannah, Georgia, in 1872, opening a photography studio in partnership with J. N. Wilson. He later took over the business from J. N. Wilson. In...
All St Croix
23 photos
Christiansted, St Croix
6 photos
Christiansted is a town on Saint Croix, one of the main islands composing the United States Virgin Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is the former capital of the Danish...
All St. Thomas
111 photos, 1 video
All Grenada
32 photos, 1 video
Major James C. Sawders
7 photos
All Curacao
26 photos, 4 videos
All St Lucia
61 photos
N.E. Lusher
19 photos
N.E. Lusher” (1859-1932) ran a photography studio on Front Street in Hamilton, Bermuda called N.E. Lusher & Sun
St Georges, Bermuda
7 photos
All Bermuda
126 photos, 1 video
Codrington College, Barbados
8 photos
Codrington College is an Anglican theological college in St. John, Barbados. It was founded by Christopher Codrington, who after his death in 1710 left portions of his 'estates' - two slave labour...
All Bahamas
135 photos, 8 videos
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent, sovereign, English-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipelago. It...
Felix Morin
25 photos
Felix Morin established a photographic business in 1869. From circa 1893 he had a studio at the corner of Frederick Street and Brunswick Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad. In 1896 he is recorded as...
All Barbados
311 photos
All Trinidad
320 photos, 9 videos
Hippolyte Hartmann, Sr
10 photos
All Martinique
523 photos, 12 videos
St. Pierre, Martinique
105 photos, 5 videos
Saint-Pierre was the former primary city of France's Caribbean département d'outre-mer of Martinique, founded in 1635 by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc. It was never the capital except in an economic...
Alexander Lamont Henderson
8 photos
Alexander Lamont Henderson was born in Edinburgh in 1837. He was an Experimental Photographer and aside from the usual glass plate techniques he expanded his interests into stereo and colour work. He...
All Jamaica
1210 photos, 2 videos
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (145 mi) in length and as much as 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about 145 kilometres (90 mi)...
Great Houses, Jamaica
6 photos
J.C. Wilson
5 photos
J.C. Wilson was a commercial photographer based in Kingstown, St.
Vincent circa 1890s-1910s. Wilson had a studio in James Street in 1909 . Wilson appears to have moved to Sharpe Street circa 1914.
J.F. Coonley
10 photos
Jacob Frank Coonley was originally a sign and ornamental artist in New York whose business fell off in the panic of 1857. Circa 1857, Coonley studied daguerreotype photography with George Barnard and...
Coastal Views, Barbados
9 photos
Barbados Hotels
10 photos
Great Houses, Barbados
6 photos
Bajans
35 photos
Bridgetown, Barbados
111 photos
The City of Bridgetown, metropolitan pop 96,578 (2006), is the capital and largest city of the nation of Barbados. Formerly, the Town of Saint Michael the Greater Bridgetown area is located within...
Rural Barbados
21 photos
Hamilton, Bermuda
27 photos
Hamilton is the capital of Bermuda. Although there is a parish of the same name, the city of Hamilton is in the parish of Pembroke. The City is named after Sir Henry Hamilton, governor from 1778 to...
Bermuda Hotels
7 photos
Bermundians
13 photos
Willemstad, Curacao
20 photos
Willemstad is the World Heritage listed capitol city of the Caribbean nation of Curaçao. It is known as the most picturesque city in the islands for good reason. Willemstad is a traditional port...
Curacaoians
4 photos
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
71 photos
Charlotte Amalie is the capital and largest city of the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is located on the island of Saint Thomas and as of 2004 had an estimated population of 19,000 (the 2000 U.S. Census...
Grenadians
1 photo
St. George's, Grenada
22 photos, 1 video
St. George's, population 7,500 (1999), with an agglomeration of 33,000 people is the capital of Grenada, British West Indies. The city is surrounded by a hillside of an old volcano crater and is on a...
Rural Grenada
2 photos
Fort-de-France, Martinique
120 photos, 6 videos
Fort-de-France is the capital of France's Caribbean département d'outre-mer of Martinique. With a population of 134,727 inhabitants (1999 census) in the urban area, 94,049 of whom live in the city...
1902 Mt Pelee Disaster
229 photos, 1 video
Mount Pelée (pronounced /pəˈleɪ/; French: Montagne Pelée "Bald Mountain") is a dormant volcano on the northern tip of the French overseas department of Martinique in the Lesser...
Martiniquians
41 photos
Bahamians
12 photos
St Lucians
8 photos
St. Thomasians
4 photos
Rural Trinidad
27 photos
Coastal Views, Trinidad
1 photo
Pitch Lake, Trinidad
38 photos, 2 videos
The Pitch Lake is a lake of natural asphalt located at La Brea in southwest Trinidad. It has fascinated explorers, scientists and the common folk since its discovery by Sir Walter Raleigh in the year...
Nassau
121 photos, 7 videos
Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 210,832 (2000 census), nearly 70 percent of the entire population of the...
Trinidadians
69 photos, 1 video
H.S. Duperly
6 photos
Tourists, Jamaica
18 photos
Curator's People
3 photos
Curator's Rural Views
3 photos
Curator's City Views
2 photos
Curator's Coastal Views
3 photos
Valentine & Sons
89 photos
James Valentine was a well-known photographer of Dundee, Scotland. Valentines of Dundee produced Scottish topographical views from the 1860s, and later became internationally famous as the producers...
J.W. Cleary
35 photos
J.W. Cleary established a photographic business in Kingston, Jamaica, during the early 1880s. E.W. Elliott became his partner in 1906. In 1916 'Cleary's Photo Studio' was located at 89 King Street ....
A. Duperly & Sons
143 photos
Adolphe Duperly of Paris was originally an engraver, lithographer and printer. In 1833 he published a lithograph depicting the 1831 Christmas Rebellion and in 1838 a lithograph depicting emancipation...
Coastal Views, Jamaica
20 photos
Bog Walk, Jamaica
30 photos
Port Maria, Jamaica
2 photos
Port Maria is a town and Caribbean port, northern Jamaica, northwest of Kingston. Its harbour is well sheltered and has a small, wooded island at its centre. Bananas are exported, and Port Maria...
Jamaicans
184 photos
1907 Jamaica Earthquake
76 photos
In 1907, 800 people died in an earthquake known as the 1907 Kingston earthquake, destroying nearly all the historical buildings south of Parade in the city. That was when a restriction of no more...
Montego Bay, Jamaica
12 photos
Montego Bay is the second largest city in Jamaica and is the location of Jamaica's largest airport, the Sir Donald Sangster International Airport.
Montego Bay is known for its duty free shopping and...
Port Royal, Jamaica
24 photos
Port Royal, Jamaica was the centre of shipping commerce in the islands of the Greater Antilles which make up the northeastern part of the outer ring of islands defining and enclosing the Caribbean...
Mandeville, Jamaica
24 photos
Mandeville is the capital of Jamaica's Manchester parish. In 2005 the town had an estimated population of 50,000, and including the immediate suburbs within a radius of 16 km (10 miles) the total...
Port Antonio, Jamaica
89 photos
Port Antonio is the capital of the parish of Portland on the northeastern coast of Jamaica, about 60 miles (100 km) from Kingston. It had a population of 12,285 in 1982 and 13,246 in 1991. It is the...
Newcastle, Jamaica
16 photos
Rural Jamaica
201 photos
Other Jamaican Hotels
23 photos
Kingston, Jamaica
235 photos
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which...
Jack Delano
10 photos
Jack Delano (August 1, 1914 – August 12, 1997) was an American photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and a composer noted for his use of Puerto Rican folk material.
Delano was...
Books About Bermuda
1 photo