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Views of the Caribbean
97.R.50  
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Description
The collection comprises 25 mounted albumen photographs taken throughout the Caribbean in the 1870s and 1880s. Locales represented include: Trinidad, Saint Vincent, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Nevis, Saint Thomas, and Saint Kitts. Three photographs of Trinidad are signed Felix Morin in the negative.
Background
Three photographs are signed in the negative by Felix Morin, a French photographer who maintained a studio in Port of Spain, Trinidad from 1869 through the late 1890s. The remainder of the photographs are unattributed.
Extent
1.5 Linear Feet 1 box (25 photographs)
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Availability
Open for use by qualified researchers.