[Photograph Album Compiled by a White Visitor to Jamaica]

Edité par A few locations in Jamaica, 1950

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6 " x 10¾". Commercial "Snapshots" album, stapled thin card wrappers, black construction paper leaves. Pp. [31] with 34 B&W photographs measuring 3½" x 5" corner mounted and typed caption slips adhered beneath all but 3 + 17 photos ranging from 2¼" x 3¼" to 4" x 6" laid in. Album good: all leaves detached, wrappers chipped and split but staples intact; leaves quite chipped and prone to more. Photos generally very good or better; 6 appear to be lacking but are likely among those laid in. This is a lovely album compiled and well-captioned by a white visitor, most likely a missionary, to several sites and villages throughout the island of Jamaica. Though we weren't able to discover who this man was or what his goals were on the island, his captions tell a tale of admiration for the natives, scenery and way of life. He posed with locals in front of "my home at Bath" and noted the rural settlement's "bakery workers," "street scenes" and "Sunday School." Shots point out a family of "Indians" there as well as the women who tended to his needs: "These ladies prepared my meals during my stay at Bath. They walk one quarter mile to my house carrying food and water on their heads." He stayed four days at the "Parsonage at Roaring River," a former slave plantation on the island's western end known for its healing mineral pools, and introduced their pastor and modest straw hut church. He also visited the more populous Montego Bay, showing "fishing boats," "a milk wagon" and a "merchant and wife in front of their store." Other images point out "Native workers in front of a banana grove," a group making "cocanut oil," "breaking rock for the Government" and "Mr. and Mrs. Solomon. He is considered the wise man of the town. They are making music." A handwritten addition to that caption deems the couple: "Sun worshipers." Our compiler observed "girls running a race with jars of water on their heads" at a "Sunday School picnic," a worker at the saw mill and a vivid village scene: "Day is done, and these men are coming home from work." Four smaller shots laid in reveal a well-dressed native family, along with their motorbike, while a larger pair picture buggies drawn by donkeys and locals on the road. A few photos are blurry but most are well-composed, and constitute a nice collection of images of Jamaica, its natives and its views.

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Titre
[Photograph Album Compiled by a White Visitor to Jamaica]
Éditeur
A few locations in Jamaica
Année de publication
1950
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Couverture souple
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Afro-Caribbeana, Jamaica

Langdon Manor Books

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