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"A very rare set of a dozen lithograph views of Martinique after eleven photographs by Hippolyte Hartmann and one drawing by Michel-Jean Cazabon, set on stone by Eugène Cicéri in Paris circa 1860. The Alsatian Hartmann and his son worked as photographers in the Caribbean and on the Atlantic coast of South America, 'As was necessary, since in the mid-nineteenth century the residents of any one island could not support a full time photographer' - Getty. They seem to have travelled often with Cazabon, a Creole artist regarded as the first great Trinidadian painter, with whom they also published a second lithograph view book depicting Demerara." -- Librería de Antaño

"A collection of studio and amateur photographs of the Scotland Bay Recreation Area, part of Naval Base Trinidad, and the nearby city of Port of Spain, compiled by LTJG Alex Wolf while he was stationed there from 1944 to Jun 1945. Wolf was a physical education teacher who lived in Chicago. After his promotion from ensign to lieutenant (junior grade), Wolf was the officer in charge (O-in-C) of Scotland Bay Recreation Area and had been for eighteen months when he left. Naval Base Trinidad, commissioned in 1941, was a U.S. Naval base constructed to support ships in the Atlantic theatre of WWII and defend shipping lanes to and from the Panama Canal from German U-boats. It was decommissioned in 1977.

Sixty photographs are of Scotland Bay Recreation Area, including the volleyball/badminton, basketball, tennis, and handball courts, the softball and baseball fields, and the swimming area with its cabanas, diving tower, and pier. There are also views of the Frank Knox Zoo, part of the recreation area, with snapshots of officers with snakes and a macaw. Other photographs include the picnic area, beer garden and canteen, boat dock, administrative building, Chief Petty Officers Clubhouse, and scenes at the Rainbow Canteen. Several photos show the crew members of USS Brooklyn and USS Guam during their shore leave participating in sports and picnics. Four photos are of Eleanor Roosevelt's tour of Scotland Bay Recreation Area while she was visiting Naval Base Trinidad in 1944. The newspaper clippings are likely from papers circulated locally or within the U.S. forces, with stories or photos of the recreation area. Several clippings mention or feature Wolf.

The latter half of the album contains views and snapshots from the city of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. They include Maracas Falls, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Queen's Park Hotel (demolished in 1996), Jama Masjid POS, Memorial Park, street markets, a school, a 'typical native hut,' and photographs of the locals. Ephemera includes three envelopes...addressed to Wolf; two records of extension of certificate for 'E.P.G. + Inter + Upper;' two Assignment to Teacher forms from 1936 and 1939, issued by the Chicago Board of Education; two Notice of Teacher Transfer forms from 1960 and 1962, issued by Chicago Public Schools; a card noting that Wolf 'successfully passed the Teachers of Elementary Schools Academic Examination' dated 1932; a report of exam marks for Teachers in High Schools certificates; a letter addressed to Coaching School students at the University of Illinois from the Delta Theta Epsilon fraternity; and two report cards from the first and second semesters of 1933-34 from the University of Illinois." --Description from The Wayfarer's Bookshop

"A very extensive collection of over 800 silver gelatin photographs of Panama from 1943 to 1945, likely compiled by the wife of an American military officer stationed there during World War II. The album contains views of Panamanian cities and environs, including Panama City and Colón. Photographs of Panama City show street scenes (Avenida Central, a lottery event, buildings with signs reading 'Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.,' 'Cecilia,' 'Club Nocturno,' etc.), Plaza Cinco de Mayo, the former Central Railway station, the University of Panama, the National Lottery Building, the Palacio de las Garzas (presidential residence), the National Theatre of Panama, Santa Ana Church, San Francisco Church, Paseo de las Bovedas, the flat arch of the Santo Domingo Convent, and the ruins of Panama Viejo. Of Colón, they show Mount Hope Cemetery, Hotel Washington, the Municipal Park, and street views. Thirty four photographs show Carnival in Panama City in February 1944, and 28 photographs show the 'Sacred Heart Procession' near the San Francisco Church in July 1944. There are also photos of Chitre (exterior and interior of St. John Baptist Cathedral, a plaza, a cemetery, 'Hotel International,' and a public market), Portobelo ('Modern Portobelo,' the local ruins, a cemetery, and Church of San Felipe), U.S. military housing in Diablo, Santa Clara (the beach, cabins, and huts), Gamboa ('Gold school,' a country club, U.S. military housing, views of Chagres River), Parque Municipal Summit in Central Panama, and Barro Colorado Island (biological research island in the middle of the Panama Canal).

Over 40 photographs show the Guna, an indigenous people of Panama, in a village likely in the San Blas Islands (northeast coast of Panama). The photographs include street scenes of the village, Guna women and children with the compiler and her friends, men swimming, dugout canoes, and a signpost reading 'sociedad eclesistica [church membership].' Other photographs are of the compiler and her friends and family in Panama and Utah. The piece of ephemera is a print caption previously attached to a loosely inserted group portrait of the attendees of a party, titled 'M.I.A Party, Canal Zone Branch, Nov. 7, 1944.' The caption identifies all people in the photograph as well as the photographer.

Overall, an extensive and lively album showing Panama during the latter half of World War II." --description from Wayfarer's Bookshop.

"Historically interesting, extensive collection of early original photographs of the Panama Canal, Caracas and Port of Spain in Trinidad. Most likely compiled by an American traveler in the 1900s. The album starts with several views of Panama City, showing the Metropolitan Cathedral, La Merced Church, Tivoli Hotel, railway station, city streets and residential areas. Four excellent large panoramas and about eighteen smaller snapshot photos depict the earth- and construction-works on the Panama Canal. Among the identified images of Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago) are large views of the Government House and a wharf, and a series of smaller photos, showing the business district, a corner of Frederick Street with Maillard's 'El Popular' store and Belmont street car, the city harbour, a man dressed up for Carnival, etc. The album also contains large, well-executed views of Caracas, Venezuela: A panorama with the Miraflores Palace, the old campus of the University, Plaza Bolivar with Simon Bolivar's equestrian statue, and a portrait of a group of local men and kids with the Miraflores Palace in the far right. The other photos show a port with the hangar with the sign 'Panama Railroad Co.'s Pier No. 4,' railway stations and trains, horse-driven tram cars, a public gathering near a shore office of a cable car line, residential and administrative buildings (most likely in the Panama Canal Zone), city streets, harbors, churches and cathedrals, scenes with travelers dining, conversing with other Europeans or Americans, etc." --description from the The Wayfarer's Bookshop

An album that belonged to a woman with the initials "M.A.F," featuring photographs of Cuba and Florida from the 1920s.

"Historically significant extensive collection of early original photos, dedicated to oil drilling in Colombia, Texas, and Louisiana in the 1920s. The album documents the activities of a noted Texan oilman James Smither Abercrombie and was apparently compiled by his business partner, or a family member, possibly his younger brother Robert Haden Abercrombie. James Abercrombie started working in the Texan oil industry in 1909 and by 1918, had enough money to drill for oil in South Texas and the Gulf Coast on his own. The images show workers unloading drilling machinery at Puerto Escondido, ferrying it across the Sinu River to Monteria, Abercrombie and his partners in the camps at Tubara and Lorencita, drilling rigs under construction, oil holding tanks, the Sinu River, a 'mud volcano' in Lorencita, and many images of local villages and their inhabitants, etc. A smaller group of photos at the rear illustrate Abercrombies later drilling operations at Lake Pelto and Lake Barre (Louisiana), and Dog Lake and Taylor Bayou (Texas), showing piled up pipes, equipment, drills, construction workers, etc." --description from the The Wayfarer's Bookshop

"An exquisitely bound album chronicling a cruise on the West Indies aboard the Swedish American Line from September 20 - October 1, 1941. The album was assembled by Charles W. Holton, former mayor Essex Falls, NJ (1930-1951) who was traveling aboard in a party of six. Holton was, among other things, an amateur photographer of considerable skill, and filled the album with 136 silver gelatin photographs taken from the cruise; these are neatly laid on to album leaves and captioned in the Table of Contents. According to the log, the trip was broken up into three segments later departing from New York: Nassau, Bahamas, Cap-Haitien, Haiti, and Havana, Cuba. Each Segment of the trip is represented in photographs in roughly equal thirds, with te subjects varying from landmarks to elegant portraits of native women. The photographs of Haiti are particularly striking, with excellent shots taken of the The Citadel, Church at Sans-Souci, and the Palace of Henri Christophe. The album also includes a 7.5 page travel narrative, trip log, as well as pamphlets and ephemera from the cruise tipped in." - Lorne Bair, Vendor Description.

Photograph Album depicting the H.M.S. Dragon in several places in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, including: British Columbia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Panama, Cuba, Bermuda, Haiti,

Photographic album, depicting several images from the islands of Trinidad and Jamaica. There are no notes on the photographer and origin of the photographs outside of their general location.

"An album of 53 photographs of South America and West Indies with Watercolours of Costumes. 53 photographs laid together with12 watercolours of South American costumes on clean transparent panels (8 x 10 cm), 24 watercolours of characters and costumes on paper (23 x 15 cm) and 23 watercolours (all but one trimmed to image) of 'Tipos de Indios del Ecuador' with loosely inserted manuscript key. Aslo included are 4 small photograhs of Madeira, 8 photograhs and two engravings ( one damaged) of Teneriffe together with loosely inserted items:5 maps (four of railways) 1876?-1908, various letters and itineraries. Photographs primarly of Colombia (with Views before and after the Earthquake of 18 May 1875), Ecuador and the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1889. The photographs are mounted one, two or three to a page and range in dimmensions from approximatey 10 x 18 cm to 18 x 23 cm - those of the Panama Canal are the largest in size. Five views in the Virgin Islands and Jamaica are followed by scenes in Cucuta, Baraquilla and San Jose, Columbia, scenes during the construction of the Panama Canal (1889) ending with eleven views in Ecuador, mainly around Guyaquil. The watercolours of costumes are laid into the back of the album. The Panama Canal was under construction by Ferdinand de Lespes between 1881 and 1889 when work stopped. The canal was completed by the United States between 1904 and 1914. The 1875 earthquake centered on Cucuta; up to 10,000 lives were lost." -- Descriptions from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers

An original photo album of an affluent sugar industry tycoon who was closely connected with the notorious Innes family of the MountGrace plantation in Jamaica, views centered mainly in the Dominican Republic during the oppressive era of Rafael Trujillo who ruled from 1927 to 1961, with some views from Cuba and Jamaica.

Folio. Spiral bound red cloth titled gilt. 39 large (approximately 9.5"x9.5") glossy black and white gelatin silver prints mounted on oak tag leaves. Pictures centered around a luxurious vacation in Jamaica in the mid-to-late 1950s, several of the images set at the San Souci resort. The images feature attractive looking vacation-goers drinking around a pool or walking on the beach, shopping, a pool side Caribbean-style band, rafting, a few harbor and fishing village images, workers harvesting cane sugar cane or hauling banana by oxen, natives working on woven rugs and hats, and other pictures of both vacationers and indigenous people working. We know little about the photographer George Hunter other than he was obviously professional or very accomplished. A slick but pleasing view of Jamaica as a vacation spot.

Mitchell Family Photograph Album: An Album with Original Photographs of a travel by a family from Virginia to Cuba, Jamaica, Culebra Cut Panama Canal, Venezuela, Trinidad, Martinique, Puerto Rico, and some European countries. Ninety-six of the photos are of Caribbean islands, Panama and Venezuela. Most South American views are identified, and some of the European as well. As for a breakdown, there are 20 images of Santiago, Cuba, 9 of Kingston, Jamaica, 18 of Panama, 13 of Venezuela, 17 of Trinidad, Barbados, & Martinique, 9 of Puerto Rico and 10 of the Bahamas. As to ownership, the album has a page with photos of a man and woman entitled "owners of this album" and giving Lynchburg, VA as their home. Later on there are two photos showing what looks like same two people, this time titled as "Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell". From the Photographs, it is clear that the owners were B.J. Mitchell (wife) and J. (likely John) H. Mitchell (husband) and a female S.L. Mitchell, born February 24 (no year given) who seems to be the photographer and album maker.