Finding aid for Views of the Caribbean 97.R.50
Beth Ann Guynn
Special Collections
2019
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Views of the Caribbean
Creator: Morin, Félix
Identifier/Call Number: 97.R.50
Physical Description: 1.5 Linear Feet1 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.
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
Guadeloupe: Pointe-à-Pitre 97.R.50-2
Guadeloupe: Musée, Pointe-à-Pitre 97.R.50-3
Scope and Contents
Depicts the front entrance to the L'Herminier museum built circa 1873 for the Chamber of Agriculture of Guadeloupe.
Jamaica: Dry Harbor 97.R.50-4
Jamaica: King Street, Kingston 97.R.50-5
Martinique: St. Pierre 97.R.50-6
Nevis: Sugar Mill 97.R.50-7
St. Lucia: Castries 97.R.50-8
St. Kitts: Harbor of Basse-terre [St. Kitts: Harbor of Basseterre] 97.R.50-9; 97.R.50.10
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
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
Scope and Contents
Two-part panorama with the caption running across both mounts.
St. Vincent: Kingstown 97.R.50-14
St. Vincent: Zion Hill, Kingstown 97.R.50-15
St. Vincent: Fish Market, Kingstown 97.R.50-16
Morin, Felix, Trinidad: Port of Spain 97.R.50-17
Scope and Contents
Signed in the negative: Felix Morin.
Morin, Felix, Trinidad: Harbor at Pitch Lake 97.R.50-18
Scope and Contents
Signed in the negative: Felix Morin.
Morin, Felix, Trinidad: Coolies 97.R.50-19
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
Trinidad: Canal 97.R.50-21
Trinidad: Coolies 97.R.50-22
Scope and Contents
Depicts East Indian laborers in and around a horse cart.
Trinidad: Young Priest 97.R.50-23
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait.
Trinidad: Coolie Woman 97.R.50-24
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
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait of a young East Indian woman sitting on a woven mat.
