| Title |
Photographs of Jamaica, circa 1900-1910 |
| Reference |
Y3073B |
| Creator |
Various |
| Covering Dates |
circa 1900-circa 1910 |
| Extent and Medium |
31 images in 1 file; Prints are in generally good condition. Some prints have been retouched before being made into lantern slides. |
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| Content and context |
Contains loose, miscellaneous prints of various sizes photographed by A. Duperly and Son, Young Brothers, S.C. Scott and Dr Sinclair. Most of the photographs have pencilled captions on the back; those prints for which captions were composed are enclosed in square brackets. |
| Further information |
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A note in the typescript catalogue makes a comparison with Y3011J.
Indexed
This file is available on microfiche: South America/Caribbean, fiche number 15.
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| Index Terms |
| British West Indies |
| Greater Antilles |
| Jamaica |
| North and Central America |
| West Indies |
| RCS/Fisher/Y3073B contains: |
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Sav[anna] la Mar. 76 x 81 mm. Showing public buildings in Savanna la Mar, a seaport at the south-western corner of Jamaica. Photograph probably by Dr. Sinclair.
Creator: Sinclair, - , fl 1900, doctor (?).
Good condition.. |
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[Illegible] fruit tree. 76 x 80 mm. Showing an unidentified fruitbearing tree. Photograph by Dr Sinclair (in the same format as the previous print).
Creator: Sinclair, - , fl 1900, doctor.
Good condition.. |
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Native cane mill. 92 x 114 mm. Showing grinding machinery and a bullock with piles of sugarcane in the foreground. Photograph by S.C. Scott.
Creator: Scott, S C, fl 1900.
Good condition.. |
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153 x 103 mm. [Missing]. [No print]. Train coming into Montpelier Station. Showing natives standing beside the line, woth a train approaching in the distance. Photograph by Dr. Sinclair.
Creator: Sinclair, - , fl 1900, doctor.
Good condition but some parts of print retouched.. |
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Crossing Bamboo Pond, near Morant Bay, Jamaica. 151 x 103 mm. Showing a horse and buggy crossing a river, with natives helping to push the vehicle through the water. Additional information on the back of the print states 'Travelling on the King's Highway. Emo's Buggy, 1904. Before the bridge was made. Crossing Bamboo Pond Johnstone River near Morant Bay, [signed] J.E.K.'.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, some retouching in parts.. |
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Seeing a ship off. 135 x 89 mm. A postcard (original photograph) taken from the deck of a ship and looking back towards the jetty where a waving crowd stands.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition.. |
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[?] Alphe Infants' School. 139 x 88 mm. A postcard (original photograph) showing a school classroom with children sitting at their desks and nuns standing at the front of the room.
Creator: Unknown.
God condition.. |
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Barton's School, St. Matthews. 139 x 88 mm. A postcard (original photograph) showing a large group of school shildren posed together in the open air with trees and the school buildings in the background. Signed on reverse [?] G.H. Deen.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition.. |
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9
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Old Kings House, Spanish Town. 162 x 113 mm. Showing the front façade of Kings House, built for Henry Moore, who administered the island from 1756 to 1762. This façade is now all that remains of the building, the interior having been destroyed by fire in 1925. The building is situated in the Plaza in Spanish Town.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some overall yellowing.. |
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10
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Police Station and Court House, Cedar Valley, Jamaica. 161 x 116 mm. Showing a small group of Jamaican men and women standing in front of the stone courthouse. With hills in the background. Cedar Valley lies about ten miles east of Kingston at the foot of the Blue Mountains.
Creator: Young Brothers.
Good condition, some retouching of vegetation in background.. |
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Parish Church Mandeville, Ja. 162 x 116 mm. Showing the chuch with its square tower, taken from outside the churchyard. Mandeville lies about 40 miles west of Kingston in the centre of the island.
Creator: Young Brothers.
Good condition, but some retouching apparent.. |
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12
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Courthouse, Mandeville, Ja. 162 x 116 mm. Showing the front of the Court House at Mandeville, a building of similar design to that seen in Y3073B/10, of square construction with two curving staircases leading to an entrance on the first floor and with an entrance at ground level directly beneath the stairs. This Court House is of a rather more elegant design, however.
Creator: Young Brothers.
Fair condtiton, but some chemical staining.. |
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13
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Shipping cassaia flour from Trelawny wharf, Ja., B.W.I. 15.10.11. 160 x 115 mm. Showing native labourers unloding sacks of flour from a lorry, supervised by a foreman and two pith-helmeted Europeans. The writing on the sacks has been painted on by hand.
Creator: Young Brothers.
Good condition.. |
15 Oct. 1911 |
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Port Antonio. 231 x 178 mm. A view looking down from a hillside above the town on to the small harbour, with house and shops clustered at the water's edge.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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King's House. 232 x 178 mm. A view from the lawn showing the back of the new King's House in St. Andrew on the Liguanea Plain ( a different building to that in Spanish Town seen in plate 9). The building, designed by Sir Charles Nicholson, after the former Kings House, Bishop's Lodge, had been destroyed in the earthquake of 1907 is constructed from reinforced concrete and comprise three floors with rooms arranged around an open patio.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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Constant Spring Hotel. 232 x 178 mm. A view looking across a small valley towards the spacious hotel, with mountains in the distance. The hotel is situated about six miles north of Kingston: 'Who has not heard of the Constant Spring Hotel? Its fame has gone throughout the world. The palatial caravansary stands on the summit of a gentle slope... the plan of the main building is rectangular... around it are extensive gardens and lawns for tennis, croquet, etc., where human art and ingenuity only serve to bring out in agreeable contrast the wealth of gifts bestowed by nature. There is also a nine hole golf course.'( Macmillan 1909).
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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Myrtle Bank Hotel. 231 x 178 mm. A view from the lawn showing the rear facades of the hotel, with guests standing on the verandah. The hotel is in Harbour Street, Kingston: 'The Myrtle Bank Hotel has become a synonym for everything associated with elegance and comfort in accommodation, the superlative in food and wine, and all that is best and brightest in the innumerable phases of attraction so indispensible to modern ideals for the needs of the day and the pleasures of the night.. On the verandahs of the Myrtle Bank more people take their ease and refreshments than in any other hotel in the island, and visitors from the cold lands of the North swiftly 'fall' for the rhythm of the rocking chairs that seem to swing more emphatically in the affirmative when the well-trained waiters answer the electric bells that are everywhere to hand..'(Macmillan 1909).
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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Bog Walk. 231 x 178 mm. Showing a horse and buggy driving along a country road beside the Rio Cobre, with forest on either side.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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Hope Gardens. 230 x 180 mm. Showing Jamaican gardeners standing in the Hope Botanical Gardens, with a house in the background and steep hills beyond: 'The Hope Botanical Gardens are situated on the Liguanea Plains about six miles north-east of Kingston, and may be reached by the electric tram-cars. They are beautiful gardens with spacious lawns, intersected with carriage drives. Handsome palms and other ornamental trees are dotted over the lawns; there are nice shady walks under trees of the divi-divi, from the branches of which are suspended baskets and pots of rare orchids in great variety..'. (Cundall 1928).
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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Wag Water [River] Castleton. 231 x 177 mm. Showing the rocky bed of the Wag Water River running through hilly scrubland. The river runs northward through Castleton to the sea at Annotto Bay.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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Birds-eye view of Kingston. 230 x 178 mm. A view looking down on Kingston, the Harbour and the surrounding countryside from the Long Mountain.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Poor condition, considerable fading and some retouching.. |
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[King Street, Kingston]. 230 x 181 mm. A view from the top floor of a building looking along King Street with mountains I the distance.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons (?).
Good condition, with mountains in print slightly retouched.. |
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[King Street, Kingston]. 229 x 180 mm. A view from the harbour looking along King Street towards the mountains in the distance. The street itself is crowded with promenading Jamaicans, while in the foreground stands the Metcalfe Statue with the Victoria Market to the right.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons (?).
Good condition.. |
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[Kingston Harbour]. 230 x 177 mm. A view from the harbour showing steamers moored at the wharves on the Kingston dockside, with mountains in the distance.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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[Military cantonments at Newcastle]. 230 x 179 mm. A view looking down on the military emplacements perched on the side of a steep hill: 'High, High, High high up in the hills' behind the capital, appearing as white specks on the mountain side, are the military cantonments of Newcastle, hanging in terraces like a monastery in Tibet... Perched at a height of four thousand feet above the level of the sea, these barracks were erected by Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor from 1839 to 1841, for the benefit of the white troops, which were literally decimated by yellow fever during the 'sickly season' on the plains. In this eyrie the remnant of the white garrison must find time hang rather heavily on its hands, since there are no shops, and no petticoats for miles... but to compensate for these shortcomings there is the fresh mountain air and exquisite scenery' (Aspinall 1928). This shortcoming is to some extent being remedied in this photograph, where a squash court can be seen in the process of construction.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons (?).
Good condition.. |
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[Unidentified Jamaican town]. 228 x 177 mm. A view looking across fields towards a small town (possibly Mandeville: compare the Court House seen at the left of this picture with plate 12) with mountains in the distance.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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[Carrying bananas to market]. 178 x 229 mm. Showing a Jamaican carrying large bunches of bananas on his back.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Poor condition, considerable overall fading and yellowing.. |
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Market Women. 229 x 180 mm. Showing a group of Jamaican women and a donkey posing by the roadside with baskets of produce on their heads.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition.. |
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Blue Hole, Port Antonio. 228 x 177 mm. A view looking down on an enclosed stretch of water with palm trees in the foreground and two cabins on the small island in the centre of the photograph.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition, apart from a bend and a few dirt marks.. |
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White River. 230 x 178 mm. Showing a group of Jamaicans washing in and gathering water from the river. The White River enters the sea on the north coast between Ochos Rios and Oracabossa.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons.
Good condition, some retouching. |
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[?Roaring River Falls]. 229 x 179 mm. Showing a waterfall composed of several cascades, possibly the Roaring River Falls.
Creator: Adolphe Duperly and Sons (?).
Good condition.. |
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