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Photograph album of Jamaican views
Title
[Photograph album of Jamaican views].
Production
Jamaica, [circa 1900]
Physical Description
85 photographs in 1 album : black and white prints ; album 26 x 31 cm
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript captions on photograph versos.
Photographs 16 x 21 cm. and smaller.
Captions and accompanying index in English.
Provenance
Purchased from Michael Brown Rare Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Photograph album depicting rural life and views of Jamaica, circa 1900, by an unidentified creator. Photographs include views of Bowden Harbour, Manchioneal, Mandeville, Moneague, Moore Town, Montego Bay, Port Antonia, and Saint Ann's Bay. Images may have been taken by a tourist and depict scenes of "native" dwellings, markets, roads and street scenes, sugar plantations, and coconut groves. A number of photographs show travel to "Roaring River" and "Blue Hole." Also included are a few portraits showing Indian "coolies" on the road to Mooretown, a "deaf dumb and blind beggar" at Montego Bay, and an unidentified young woman.
Mounted photographs are platinum prints; one gelatin silver print and one clipping of a photograph reproduction are laid in. Also laid in is an index, in manuscript in an unidentified hand.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 16, 2014
References
Photograph Album of Jamaican Views. James Weldon Johnson Collection in Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Photograph Album of Jamaican Views. James Weldon Johnson Collection in Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Gelatin silver prints.
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
Platinum prints.
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