Janus: Fisher photograph collection

RCS/Fisher contains:
<-- See earlier
Y3073B	Photographs of Jamaica, circa 1900-1910
Y30742A	Photographs of St. Kitts, circa 1900
Y30745A	Photographs of Dominica, circa 1910
Y3075C	Photographs of Trinidad, 1911-1912
Y30771B	Photographs of Grenada, circa 1890
Y30773B	Photographs of St. Vincent, circa 1900-1910
Y3078A	Views in British Honduras, circa 1911
Y3081A	Geological Survey of West Australia photographs
Y3081B	Photographs of agriculture and scenery in Western Australia circa 1910
Y3085O	Photographs of Queensland agriculture, industry and scenery circa 1910
Y3086U	Agriculture and scenery in New South Wales
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Fisher photograph collection

Title	Photographs of St. Vincent, circa 1900-1910
Reference	Y30773B
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	circa 1900-circa 1910
Extent and Medium	6 images in 1 file; Photographs are in generally good condition apart from a few bends.

Content and context

Contains loose photographs of various sizes. One is signed on reverse 'Cyril T. [?] Adams, Chateaubelair, St. Vincent', other photographers unknown.

Further information

A note on the typescript catalogue compares this file with Y3011J.

Indexed

This file is available on microfiche: South America/Caribbean, fiche number 27.

Index Terms

British West Indies

Lesser Antilles

North and Central America

Saint Vincent

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

West Indies

Windward Islands

RCS/Fisher/Y30773B contains:

La Soufrière in eruption. 150 x 113 mm. A view looking down in to the smoking crater of La Soufrière, a volcano situated in the north-central area of St. Vincent. This photograph was presumably taken some time around May 1902 when the eruption of the volcano caused great devastation and loss of life.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition. The print has undergone some retouching to give tone in the highlights..

La Soufrière quiescent. 171 x 120 mm. A mounted print showing the lake in the now quiescent crater of La Soufrière, with lava cliffs in the background. A few palms and other vegetation have been painted into the foreground.
Creator: Adams, Cyril, fl 1902 (?).
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

Government House, St Vincent. 151 x 210 mm. A view looking out from jungle foliage towards Government House in front of which the Union Jack is flying. The house stands at one end of the Botanical Gardens.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from bend in top corner of print..

Sea Island Cotton. 208 x 152 mm. A scene in a cotton ginnery showing mounds of separated cotton awaiting pressing.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from bend in one corner of print..

Disused sugar refinery. 153 x 207 mm. A view showing St. Vincent islanders standing outside a derelict stone building, inside which can be seen a large water wheel and various other pieces of machinery. Formerly dependent on sugar, by the early 1900s the island's economy had switched to a reliance on cotton and arrowroot.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Carib family, St. Vincent. 153 x 198 mm. An interesting photograph showing a Carib man and wife and three children. A modern caption on the reverse of the print states 'The Last family of true Caribs - St. Vincent 1915 (?)' The date here is certainly wrong , but the rest of the information may well be correct. The Caribs, a warlike seafaring race from the coasts of Bolivia and Brazil originally captured many of the West Indian Islands shortly before the European discovery of the New World, massacring and dispossessing the Arawak tribes. This aggressive attitude they extended to the European colonists. In the case of St. Vincent the last of their many risings took place in 1795 when, aided by the French they controlled most of the island apart from Kingstown for some months. When the British finally regained control, all black Caribs were transported to the 'Red' Caribs in the island who remained loyal to Britian and were not deported .
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..