Stereoview archive of the post-emancipation Caribbean, showing how the islands were marketed to western viewers through plantation labor, export agriculture, civic spectacle, and catastrophe. As a group, these photos function not only as an ethnographic travel archive, but as evidence of the visual economy that followed slavery. The British West.....
Unidentified photographers, two albumen photographs of Black laborers, circa 1890s to early 1900s, document agricultural and skilled work performed by African Americans in the decades following emancipation, when systems of sharecropping and tenant farming structured rural economies across the American South and parts of the Caribbean. These images provide visual.....
Puerto Rico during the early 20th century photo archive including the 1928 hurricane, and colonial era life. Archive contains 3 silver gelatin photos, with 2 photos being on one sheet. Each measure 8.5" x 11" to 5" x 9". One press photograph features two stacked photojournalistic images showing scenes of.....
Caribbean photograph album, likely compiled by a person connected to the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean, documenting how steamship mobility, port circulation, and U.S. imperial presence linked Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Florida, and Panama in the years after the canal opened. The felt cover.....
Archive of 35 original photographs documenting the construction environment of the Panama Canal alongside the daily lives of Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean Panamanian communities during the transitional period between the failed French canal enterprise and the establishment of sustained American engineering operations in the early twentieth century. The photographs record one.....
