[Slavery] [Cuba] Spanish colonial slave sale manuscript recording the transfer of thirty-eight enslaved individuals in Cuba in 1875, materializing the sheer scale and organization of enslaved labor within the island’s plantation economy during the final decade before abolition. The document enumerates a large group of enslaved people, including multiple family.....
[Spanish-American War] [Military] [Cuba] United States volunteer cavalry photo archive of soldiers in the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, widely known as Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, during and immediately after the Spanish American War, ca. 1898-1900. The photographs record the daily life, training routines, and informal social culture of American.....
Spanish-American War stereoview archive, circa 1898-1899, documenting how the war was pictured through mass-produced photographic views that followed U.S. mobilization, battlefield action, occupation, and military life across both Cuba and the Philippines. These stereoviews preserves the visual system by which the war was circulated to American audiences, showcasing camp organization.....
[Cuba] [Chinese] [Labor] Cuban indentured servant contract documenting the state administration of Chinese indenture in eastern Cuba in January 1868, with direct evidence of how colonial authorities, private employers, and local officials formalized the re-contracting of Chinese laborers under the legal framework established after the 1860 royal decree regulating Asian.....
[Cuba] [Chinese] [Labor] Cuban indentured servant contract documenting the state administration of Chinese indenture in western Cuba, February 1867, records the municipal enforcement of Cuban contract labor rules for Asian migrants under the post 1860 regulatory system that governed wages, discipline, illness, food, and flight. Issued on a printed form.....
[Slavery] [Cuba] Spanish colonial slave sale manuscript recording the transfer of four enslaved individuals in Cuba in 1870. Produced within the official bureaucratic framework of Spanish colonial governance, the document reflects the legal normalization of slavery in Cuba even as abolitionist pressures mounted across the Atlantic world.. The document records.....
[Slavery] [Cuba] Spanish colonial manuscript documenting the late persistence of slavery in Cuba, recording the sale of five enslaved Creole individuals, including women and children, 1870. Produced within the official bureaucratic framework of Spanish colonial governance, the document reflects the legal normalization of slavery in Cuba even as abolitionist pressures.....
Primary-source photographs documenting United States naval expansion during the Spanish–American War era, recording the emergence of a modern battleship fleet as the nation extended military presence beyond coastal defense into overseas operations. The archive supports research into late nineteenth-century naval modernization, fleet composition, and the development of American sea power.....
[Caribbean] [Photography] Large-format Caribbean photography archive documenting everyday life, labor, and landscape across multiple British Caribbean territories during the early twentieth century. Produced circa 1910s–1920s, the photographs depict Jamaica, St. Thomas, Trinidad, and Bermuda at a time when maritime trade, imperial administration, and expanding leisure travel were reshaping island economies.....
[Cuba] [Chinese] [Labor] Cuban indentured servant contract documenting the state administration of Chinese indenture in western Cuba, July 1870, records the municipal enforcement of Cuban contract labor rules for Asian migrants under the post 1860 regulatory system that governed wages, discipline, illness, food, and flight. The form cites the Real.....
African American stereoview archive documenting Black labor in cotton, rice, turpentine, phosphate, fruit, and plantation agriculture across the post Reconstruction South and Caribbean, 1890s-1900s, showcasing how emancipation gave way to a new labor order structured by low wages, racial control, export agriculture, and restricted economic mobility. Images show how Black.....
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.....
Panama City photograph archive, ca. 1920s, documenting the urban environment of the Panamanian capital and the infrastructure of the Panama Canal during the decades following the canal’s opening in 1914. The photographs record the interconnected worlds of canal engineering, international commerce, tourism, and everyday street life that developed as Panama.....
Vernacular family photograph album from Trinidad and Tobago, circa 1930s–1940s, documents Black middle-class life in the late colonial Caribbean through domestic portraiture, institutional affiliation, and social ritual prior to national independence in 1962. The album centers a single extended family and records weddings, childhood, education, and professional identity, situating its.....
[Slavery] [Black Labor] [Puerto Rico] This official Puerto Rican slave registry document, issued in Arecibo in 1871 under Spanish colonial administration, represents the bureaucratic infrastructure of slavery in the Caribbean at the precise moment preceding abolition. Titled within the printed form as part of the “Registro de Esclavos – Isla.....
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.....
Spanish-American War and Philippine-American War photo archive, group of 16 stereoscopic prints produced 1898–1899, documenting United States military campaigns and imperial expansion in Cuba and the Philippines. The material captures battlefield actions, troop mobilization, and the transition from war with Spain to conflict with Filipino forces, providing visual evidence of.....
Soldier Harold Howard's person documentaation of service in the 11th U.S. Cavalry during the period of American military occupation and intervention in Cuba following the Spanish American War. These photographs place an enlisted cavalryman within the broader framework of U.S. expansionist policy in the Caribbean under the Platt Amendment, when.....
Caribbean and Panama travel photograph album. circa early 1930s. This album documents interwar travel through the Panama Canal Zone and Jamaica, recording maritime transit, canal infrastructure, and rural Caribbean life as observed by Western travelers. The photographs provide primary visual evidence of the Panama Canal as a site of industrial.....
Photograph album, 1920s–1930s, documenting travel across the American Southwest and Cuba, with images capturing landscapes, infrastructure, and communities during a period of regional development and increased mobility. Early photographs depict desert environments with saguaro cacti and yucca, followed by rural farms, mission-style buildings, and roadside scenes, including a family traveling.....
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.....
This Photo Album captures a series of trips across California, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, and other U.S. and North American travel documents the coastal and cross-border tourist experience of an American social group during the 1930s through the early 1950s.The album records a continuous itinerary of domestic and international.....
Stereoview archive documenting the rapid overseas deployment of American troops at the moment the Spanish American War gave way to a longer and more revealing imperial presence in the Philippines. This archive marks the transition from the 1898 defeat of Spain to the far more sustained American military occupation that.....
Photographers unknown. Cuban rural photographs (early 20th century). This group documents agricultural labor, family life, and rural landscapes in Cuba prior to the Cuban Revolution, recording work practices and domestic environments tied to farming economies that shaped the island’s social structure. The images show ox-driven cultivation, tobacco production, and multi-generational.....
uerto Rico photo archive, circa 1930s, documenting tourism, colonial architecture, and coastal urban space in Puerto Rico during the U.S. territorial period. More than simple travel photographs, the images preserve how Puerto Rico was visually presented to mainland visitors through fortified Spanish colonial structures, harbor overlooks, narrow streets, landscaped grounds.....
