| Title: | Martinique: vues & types |
| Dates: | 1870s-1880s |
| Number: | 95.R.97 |
| Extent: | 1.5 Linear Feet (69 photographs in 1 album) |
| Abstract: | The album of 69 photographs taken by an unidentified photographer(s) contains views of Martinique and studio portraits of the island's inhabitants. |
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| Language: | Collection material is in French . |
| Repository: | The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 reference@getty.edu URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390 |
| Author: | Beth Ann Guynn |
The album was likely produced by one of the early photographers working in Martinique.
Sources consulted:
Garcia, Claire Oberon. "My first visit to 'Le Pays des Revenants': Color, Caste, and Class in Martinque: Then and…?" https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/martinique/2011/07/21/79/
Northrup, David. "Indentured Indians in the French Antilles. Les immigrants indiens engagés aux Antilles françaises," Outre-Mers: Revue d'histoire, Année 2000: 245-271.
The album contains 69 albumen photographs of Martinique by an unidentified maker(s) including 24 large format and 25 carte-de-visite size views of Fort-de-France, Balata, St. Pierre, and environs; three large format portraits; and 17 carte-de-visite size studio portraits. One of the large photographs depicts a group of East Indian immigrants, likely recruited to the island as indentured laborers; the other two are studio portraits of a multiracial woman and a Congolese man respectively. Slavery was abolished in Martinique in 1848. Lacking a labor force French coffee and sugar planters first looked to coastal western Africa where they purchased enslaved persons, emancipated them, and then signed them into long-term contracts to work in Martinique. This practice was quickly viewed as enslavement in another guise, and the planters then looked to East India for laborers.
The album is half bound in dark red leather with pebbled boards. The title is debossed on the front cover.
Titles for most of the individual photographs are from the French captions written on the mounts below the images. Consequently, some of the language used to describe Black persons in the titles, such as négresses and mulâtresses (negro women and mulatto women), are now considered to be outdated, racist, or offensive. Fifteen of the carte-de-visite size portraits depict women of color. Grouped on two pages and collectively captioned as representing racial types, these images extend the 1860s and 1870s craze of collecting cartes-de-visite of one's friends, family, heads of state, and other celebrities to the collecting of exoticized and objectified unnamed women. Since the names of the sitters are unknown descriptive titles for their portraits were devised by the archivist.
Arranged in a single series:
Series I. Martinique: vues & types,
1870s-1880s.
Contact Library Reproductions and Permissions.
The collection was digitized by the repository in 2021 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/95r97
Martinique: vues & types, 1870s-1880s, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 95.R.97.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa95r97
Acquired in 1995.
Beth Ann Guynn wrote the finding aid in 2021.
| Series I. Martinique: vues & types, 1870s-1880s | |||||||||||
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Martinique: vues & types, [1870s-1880s] (digitized version)
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| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| In original order. | |||||||||||
| box | Item | ||||||||||
| 1 | Front cover | 95.R.97-fc Front cover | |||||||||
| 1 | Free endpapers | 95.R.97-fe Front endpapers | |||||||||
| 1 | Free front endpaper verso | 95.R.97-fev Verso of free front endpaper | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 recto | 95.R.97-1r Rue du Gouvernement à Fort-de-France | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 recto | 95.R.97-2r Rivière Levassor | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 recto | 95.R.97-3r Chantier des transatlantiques | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 recto | 95.R.97-4r Rade de St. Pierre | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 recto | 95.R.97-5r Le Calvaire (Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 recto | 95.R.97-6r Camp de Balata, logement du colonel (environs de Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 recto | 95.R.97-7r Pitons Didier, établissement thermal (environs de Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 recto | 95.R.97-8r Camp de Balata, logement du gouverneur (environs de Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 recto | 95.R.97-9r Pitons Absalon, établissement thermal | |||||||||
| Caption continues: (environs de Fort-de-France). | |||||||||||
| 1 | 10 recto | 95.R.97-10r Fort-de-France: Baie des Flamands | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 recto | 95.R.97-11r Savanne de Fort-de-France: Statue de l'impératrix Joséphine | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 recto | 95.R.97-12r Rade de St. Pierre | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 recto | 95.R.97-13r Jardin du gouvernement à Fort-de-France: Arbre du voyageur | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 recto | 95.R.97-14r Jardin du gouvernement (Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 recto | 95.R.97-15r Pitons Absalon, établissement thermal | |||||||||
| Caption continues: (environs de Fort-de-France). | |||||||||||
| 1 | 16 recto | 95.R.97-16r Pitons Absalon, maison de bains | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 recto | 95.R.97-17r Rivière Madame à Fort-de-France | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 recto | 95.R.97-18r Rivière Madame | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 recto | 95.R.97-19r Bassin de radoub (Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 recto | 95.R.97-20r Bassin de radoub - 2e vue | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 recto | 95.R.97-21r Place Bertin à S. Pierre | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 recto | 95.R.97-22r Touffe de bambous | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 recto | 95.R.97-23r Cascade du jardin botanique | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 recto | 95.R.97-24r Groupe d'Indiens à dépôt des immigrants à Fort-de-France | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 recto | 95.R.97-25r Mulâtresse | |||||||||
| Full-length portrait of a Black woman. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 26 recto | 95.R.97-26r Nègre du Congo | |||||||||
| Full-length portrait of a Black man. See accession number 2002.R.1 for another copy of this image where it is attributed to H. Hartmann. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 27 recto | 95.R.97-27r Négresses et mulâtresses | |||||||||
| The album page contains seven carte-de-visite size studio portraits of unidentified Black female sitters and includes bust portraits as well as full- and three-quarter-length standing and seated portraits. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 27 recto-1 | 95.R.97-27r.1 [Seated Woman with Plaid Headwrap] | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 recto-2 | 95.R.97-27r.2 [Woman Seated by a Window] | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 recto-3 | 95.R.97-27r.3 [Bust Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Dark Dress, Large Beads, and Headgear] | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 recto-4 | 95.R.97-27r.4 [Woman Wearing Plaid Dress] | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 recto-5 | 95.R.97-27r.5 [Profile Bust Portrait of a Woman Wearing Bejeweled Plaid Headwrap] | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 recto-6 | 95.R.97-27r.6 [Standing Woman with White Collar] | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 recto-7 | 95.R.97-27r.7 [Woman Carrying Basket on Her Head] | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 recto | 95.R.97-28r Types de mulâtresses | |||||||||
| The album page contains seven carte-de-visite size studio portraits of unidentified Black female sitters and includes four bust portaits, one standing three-quarter-length portrait, one seated half-length portrait, and a portrait of two seated women. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 28 recto-1 | 95.R.97-28r.1 [Bust Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Bejeweled Headwrap and Large Beads] | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 recto-2 | 95.R.97-28r.2 [Bust Portrait of a Woman in a White Top] | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 recto-3 | 95.R.97-28r.3 [Profile Bust Portrait of a Woman in a White Top] | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 recto-4 | 95.R.97-28r.4 [Bust Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Bejeweled Headwrap, Satin Scarf, and Large Beads] | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 recto-5 | 95.R.97-28r.5 [Woman Standing Next to a Basket of Fruit] | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 recto-6 | 95.R.97-28r.6 [Two Seated Women] | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 recto-7 | 95.R.97-28r.7 [Woman with White Scarf Looking to the Right] | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 recto | 95.R.97-29r [Three Occupational Portraits] | |||||||||
| The album page contains three carte-de-visite size occupational portraits of Black sitter (two men and a woman). | |||||||||||
| 1 | 29 recto-1 | 95.R.97-29r.1 Fabrit de fruits au cire | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 recto-2 | 95.R.97-29r.2 Porteuse de... | |||||||||
| The woman is carrying a bucket covered with a plank on her head. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 29 recto-3 | 95.R.97-29r.3 Montreur de serpents | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto | 95.R.97-30r [Views of St. Pierre and Fort-de-France] | |||||||||
| Album page with nine carte-de-visite size views. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-1 | 95.R.97-30r.1 Place Bertin (St. Pierre) | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-2 | 95.R.97-30r.2 Bassin de radoub (Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-3 | 95.R.97-30r.3 Vue de Fort-de-France: Baie des Flamands | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-4 | 95.R.97-30r.4 Remorqueur entre Fort-de-France et St. Pierre | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-5 | 95.R.97-30r.5 Environs de St. Pierre | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-6 | 95.R.97-30r.6 Rade de St. Pierre | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-7 | 95.R.97-30r.7 Statue de l'impératrice Joséphine sur La Savanne de Fort-de-France | |||||||||
| Caption reads: Statue de l'Impr.ce. Joséphine sur la savanne de Fort-de-France. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-8 | 95.R.97-30r.8 Eglise de Fort-de-France | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 recto-9 | 95.R.97-29r.9 Plan de Fort-de-France | |||||||||
| Photographic reproduction of a map. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto | 95.R.97-31r [Views of Fort Saint-Louis, Fort-de-France, and St. Pierre] | |||||||||
| Album page with eight carte-de-visite size views. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto-1 | 95.R.97-31r.1 Atelier de travail | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto-2 | 95.R.97-31r.2 Quartier d'artillerie et Fort St.-Louis (Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| Caption reads: Quartier d'artillerie et Fort St. Louis (Fort-de Fre.) | |||||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto-3 | 95.R.97-31r.3 Rue du Gouvernement (Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto-4 | 95.R.97-31r.4 Rue du Fort-de-France | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto-5 | 95.R.97-31r.5 Pont et rivière au jardin botanique (St. Pierre) | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto-6 | 95.R.97-31r.6 Case de travailleurs dans les bois | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto-7 | 95.R.97-31r.7 Jardin botanique (St. Pierre) | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 recto-8 | 95.R.97-31r.8 Magasin de subsistances et Fort St.-Louis (Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto | 95.R.97-32r [Views of Fort-de-France, St. Pierre, and Religious Sites] | |||||||||
| Album page with eight carte-de-visite size views. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto-1 | 95.R.97-32r.1 Marché à Fort-de-France | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto-2 | 95.R.97-32r.2 Cascade du jardin botanique (St. Pierre) | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto-3 | 95.R.97-32r.3 Cascade (2er vue) | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto-4 | 95.R.97-32r.4 Cascade du Trou aux Sergents | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto-5 | 95.R.97-32r.5 Env. de St. Pierre (Environs de St. Pierre) | |||||||||
| View of nuns praying at an altar. Caption in negative below image: N. D. de la Déliverande / priez pour nous. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto-6 | 95.R.97-32r.6 Env. de St. Pierre (Environs de St. Pierre) | |||||||||
| Nuns and others praying at an outdoor shrine. Caption in negative below image reads: N. D. de Lourdes priez pour nous! | |||||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto-7 | 95.R.97-32r.7 Château d'eau (Fort-de-France) | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 recto-8 | 95.R.97-32r.8 N. D. de la Délivrande | |||||||||
| Exterior view of a church. Caption in negative below the image: N. D. de la Délivrande. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 33 recto | 95.R.97-33r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 recto | 95.R.97-34r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 recto | 95.R.97-35r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 recto | 95.R.97-36r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 recto | 95.R.97-37r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 recto | 95.R.97-38r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 recto | 95.R.97-39r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 recto | 95.R.97-40r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 recto | 95.R.97-41r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 recto | 95.R.97-42r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 recto | 95.R.97-43r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 recto | 95.R.97-44r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 recto | 95.R.97-45r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 recto | 95.R.97-46r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 recto | 95.R.97-47r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 recto | 95.R.97-48r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 recto | 95.R.97-49r Blank page | |||||||||
| 1 | Back endpapers | 95.R.97-be Back endpapers | |||||||||
| 1 | Back cover | 95.R.97-bc Back cover | |||||||||