Finding aid for Views of the Caribbean 97.R.50
Beth Ann Guynn
Special Collections
2019
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Los Angeles 90049-1688
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Views of the Caribbean
Creator:
Morin, Félix
Identifier/Call Number: 97.R.50
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/1042
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
1 box (25 photographs)
Date (inclusive): 1870s-1880s
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Abstract: 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.
Language of Material: Collection material is in English.
Publication Rights
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises 25 mounted albumen photographs taken throughout the Caribbean in the 1870s and 1880s. The collection
comprises 25 mounted
albumen photographs taken throughout the Caribbean in the 1870s and 1880s. Locales represented include: Trinidad (nine images;
three are signed by Felix
Morin); Saint Vincent (three images); Jamaica and Guadeloupe (two images each); and Barbados, Saint Lucia, Martinique, and
Nevis (one image each). Saint
Thomas and Saint Kitts are each represented by a two-part panorama; also present is a market scene taken in Saint Kitts. Images
include harbor and city
views, street scenes, an East Indian regiment, and views of a sugar mill. Several of the photographs of Trinidad depict groups
of East Indian indentured
laborers and studio portraits of young East Indian women.
Titles are from the English captions written on the recto of each mount by an unidentified nineteenth-century collector. Consequently,
some titles may
include language now considered to be racist or biased.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of the Caribbean, 1870s-1880s.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Digitized Material
The collection was digitized by the repository in 2019 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/97r50
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired in 1995.
Processing Information
Beth Ann Guynn processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in 2019.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs, Original
Albumen prints -- West Indies -- 19th century
Studio portraits -- West Indies -- 19th century
Panoramas -- West Indies -- 19th century
Trinidadians -- Portraits
Soldiers -- Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago -- Description and travel
Jamaica -- Description and travel
Saint Lucia -- Description and travel
Saint Kitts -- Description and travel
Saint Vincent -- Description and travel
Martinique -- Description and travel
Guadeloupe -- Description and travel
Nevis -- Description and travel
Saint Thomas (V.I.) -- Description and travel
West Indies -- Description and travel
Laborers -- West Indies
Indentured servants -- West Indies
box 1
Views of the Caribbean, Series I./repositories/3/archival_objects/911836
1870s-1880s
[Views of the Caribbean] (digitized version)
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by site.
Barbadoes: Native West Indian Regiment [Barbados: Native West Indian Regiment] 97.R.50-1/repositories/3/archival_objects/911839
Guadeloupe /repositories/3/archival_objects/911841
Guadeloupe: Pointe-à-Pitre 97.R.50-2/repositories/3/archival_objects/911844
Guadeloupe: Musée, Pointe-à-Pitre 97.R.50-3/repositories/3/archival_objects/911846
Scope and Contents
Depicts the front entrance to the L'Herminier museum built circa 1873 for the Chamber of Agriculture of Guadeloupe.
Jamaica /repositories/3/archival_objects/911848
Jamaica: Dry Harbor 97.R.50-4/repositories/3/archival_objects/911850
Jamaica: King Street, Kingston 97.R.50-5/repositories/3/archival_objects/911852
Martinique: St. Pierre 97.R.50-6/repositories/3/archival_objects/911854
Nevis: Sugar Mill 97.R.50-7/repositories/3/archival_objects/911856
Scope and Contents
Depicts Black sugar cane and mill workers, some driving carts laoded with sugar cane or barrells of milled sugar, outside
a sugar mill.
St. Lucia: Castries 97.R.50-8/repositories/3/archival_objects/911859
Saint Kitts /repositories/3/archival_objects/911860
St. Kitts: Harbor of Basse-terre [St. Kitts: Harbor of Basseterre] 97.R.50-9; 97.R.50.10/repositories/3/archival_objects/911861
Scope and Contents
Two-part panorama with the caption running across both mounts.
St. Kitts: Market, Basse-terre [St. Kitts: Market, Basseterre] 97.R.-11/repositories/3/archival_objects/911864
Scope and Contents
Depicts a large group of Black West Indians posed in a market area.
St. Thomas: Harbor of Charlotte Amalie 97.R.12; 97.R.13/repositories/3/archival_objects/911865
Scope and Contents
Two-part panorama with the caption running across both mounts.
Saint Vincent /repositories/3/archival_objects/911867
St. Vincent: Kingstown 97.R.50-14/repositories/3/archival_objects/911868
St. Vincent: Zion Hill, Kingstown 97.R.50-15/repositories/3/archival_objects/911869
St. Vincent: Fish Market, Kingstown 97.R.50-16/repositories/3/archival_objects/911871
Trinidad /repositories/3/archival_objects/911873
Morin, Felix, Trinidad: Port of Spain 97.R.50-17/repositories/3/archival_objects/911874
Scope and Contents
Signed in the negative: Felix Morin.
Morin, Felix, Trinidad: Harbor at Pitch Lake 97.R.50-18/repositories/3/archival_objects/911876
Scope and Contents
Signed in the negative: Felix Morin.
Morin, Felix, Trinidad: Coolies 97.R.50-19/repositories/3/archival_objects/911879
Scope and Contents
Signed in the negative: Felix Morin. Depicts a group of East Indian indentured agricultural laborers, many of whom hold hoes,
standing under a
tree.
Trinidad: Down the Coast 97.R.50-20/repositories/3/archival_objects/911883
Trinidad: Canal 97.R.50-21/repositories/3/archival_objects/911886
Trinidad: Coolies 97.R.50-22/repositories/3/archival_objects/911888
Scope and Contents
Depicts East Indian laborers in and around a horse cart.
Trinidad: Young Priest 97.R.50-23/repositories/3/archival_objects/911889
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait.
Trinidad: Coolie Woman 97.R.50-24/repositories/3/archival_objects/911892
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait of a young Est Indian woman with her arm resting on a jug.
Trinidad: Coolie Woman 97.R.50-25/repositories/3/archival_objects/911898
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait of a young East Indian woman sitting on a woven mat.
