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JAMAICA - PHOTOGRAPHY A archive of photographic views of Jamaica, and portraits of inhabitants by Duperley, and other photographers, [late nineteenth/first half of twentieth century]; and a photographic album recording a cruise on the "Almeda Star" in July 1933, with images of Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Havanna, Cartegena, Rio, etc. (small quantity) image 1
JAMAICA - PHOTOGRAPHY A archive of photographic views of Jamaica, and portraits of inhabitants by Duperley, and other photographers, [late nineteenth/first half of twentieth century]; and a photographic album recording a cruise on the "Almeda Star" in July 1933, with images of Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Havanna, Cartegena, Rio, etc. (small quantity) image 2
JAMAICA - PHOTOGRAPHY A archive of photographic views of Jamaica, and portraits of inhabitants by Duperley, and other photographers, [late nineteenth/first half of twentieth century]; and a photographic album recording a cruise on the "Almeda Star" in July 1933, with images of Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Havanna, Cartegena, Rio, etc. (small quantity) image 3
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JAMAICA - PHOTOGRAPHY
A archive of photographic views of Jamaica, and portraits of inhabitants by Duperley, and other photographers, [late nineteenth/first half of twentieth century]; and a photographic album recording a cruise on the "Almeda Star" in July 1933, with images of Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Havanna, Cartegena, Rio, etc. (small quantity)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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JAMAICA - PHOTOGRAPHY

A archive of photographic views of Jamaica, and portraits of inhabitants by Duperley, and other photographers, albumen and gelatin silver prints, mostly mounted, some loose, various sizes, [late nineteenth/first half of twentieth century]; and a photographic album recording a cruise on the "Almeda Star" in July 1933, with images of Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Havanna, Cartegena, Rio, etc. (small quantity)

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Includes: Approximately 15 albumen views (Newcastle, Churchill, Mandeville, street views and market), including 2 with stamp of A. Duperley & Son; Approximately 40 gelatin silver views, most with sequence number in the negative, printed captions on mounts, approximately 195 x 240mm.; Ten stereoviews of Jamaica, by C.H. Graves of Philadelphia, and others, a couple tinted, [c.1899-1903]; Ten photographic cabinet cards of Jamaican residents by Jamaican Studios, including Duperley (2) and Valedes; Thirty-five cabinet cards by American photographers; Small archive relating to the Jamaican femaile amateur photographer Violet Taylor, including 7 "Competition" gelatin silver photographs signed, cabinet card photographs of her as a child and young woman, three photo postcards ("A Water Carrier of the Blue Mountains", and "A Wha Yo Want Now"), printed catalogues (including her work listed) for Exhibitions including "London Salon of Photography 1922", certificates from the Colonial Photographers Amateur Photography Society; and miscellaneous others.

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