PHOTOGRAPHY - TRINIDAD, BARBADOS, AND JAMAICA


A good collection of approximately 215 views (and a few portraits) in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica, and neighbouring areas, mostly albumen prints (some gelatin silver), a few captioned and signed ("Felix Morin", "J[ohn] V[alentine"], and "Cooper"), in the image, many others captioned on the mount, some loose but mostly mounted on album sheets and 2 bound albums, the majority approximately 190 x 240mm., some smaller, late nineteenth/early twentieth century (collection)
|Trinidad images (c.110) include Barracks (5, dated 1875-79), "Lady Dundonald's lots La Brea" and a river scene both signed in the negative by "Cazabon", a portraits of "coolies" (5), Port of Spain; Jamaica images (c. 45) include series of late nineteenth century views (c.185 x 135mm.) of Kingston, Port Royal, Newcastle, "Major William's Hut", Stawberry Hill, and the Bog Walk. Other images include "Negro Cottage Jamaica", "Mandeville Race-course", Castleton Gardens (5), and other views of Kingston; Barbardos images (c.45) include; "Sugar Mill & Estate Negroes", "Native Huts... B.W.I.", Bridgetown (3), Carlisle Bay, Hastings, "Swing Bridge, Barbados", several plantation windmills, Government House, Shot Hall (5, interiors and exteriors). Other locations include St. Kitts, Guadelope, Grenada, and Martinique.