Oblong Folio album ca. 29x36 cm (11 ¼ x 14 ¼ in). 47 black card stock leaves (21 blank). With 102 mounted gelatin silver photos, all ca. 9x12,5 cm (3 ½ x 4 ¾ in). The first leaf with a period white ink title (“Jamaica - 1937”) and captions to three photos. With three large, loosely inserted gelatin photos – two ca. 25,5x33 cm (10x13 cm) and one – ca. 17,5x22,5 cm (6 ¾ x 8 ¾ in); one photo with a period pencil caption on verso (“Approach to the Citadel, Haiti, on horseback. B.C.”). Period brown faux leather album fastened with a string; paper label of “Harburne Album, The Housh Co. Inc., Boston” on the inner side of the rear cover. Owner’s pencil inscription on the inner side of the front cover. The string is broken, but overall a very good album of interesting photos.

Interesting collection of original gelatin silver snapshots of Jamaica, Haiti and Atlantic Colombia, taken by an American traveller in ca. 1937 - likely an employee of U.S. companies active in the Caribbean. The album opens with about forty images of Jamaica, including a scene with “penny divers,” views of a “typical residential home, Kingston,” cocoa fruits and “coffee beans - unhusked” at a local market. The other photos show Kingston streets, an amusement ride, a pier of the “Standard Fruit and Steamship Company,” a suspension bridge, the travellers’ automobile, the road sign of the Hardwar Gap in the Blue Mountains, countryside roads and fields, Jamaican coast and beaches, waterfalls, a fisherman’s boat with his catch, harbour with a cargo steamer and row boats loaded with bananas.

The album includes about thirty photos of Haiti, taken just a few years after the end of the American occupation of the country (1915-1934). The images show a train engine with the sign “P.C.S.” («Cie. des Chemins de fer de la Plaine du Cul-de-Sac»), streets of Port-au-Prince, outdoor market stalls, the interior of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption during a service (destroyed in the 2010 earthquake), a coastal village, &c. A series of seventeen images illustrate the trip to the commune of Milot in northern Haiti, with the views of the ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace of King Henri Christophe (1767-1820) and Citadelle Laferrière (approach on horseback, walls, inner yard with a memorial plaque, cannonball stockpiles, tourists having a meal inside the fort, views of the environs).

There are also about twenty views of Atlantic Colombia, showing a port and pier, planes in a hangar, native villages (one with a street sign “Tubara, Cooperativa Algodonera, 12 klms”), local children, &c. Four photos at the rear show the New York waterfront and Americans on board a ship (possibly the album’s compiler and his friends). The loosely inserted images are enlarged duplicates of the smaller mounted photos and show local “penny divers” in Jamaica, “Approach to the Citadel, Haiti, on horseback,” and a tropical beach scene. Overall an interesting collection of lively original snapshot photos of Jamaica, Haiti and Colombia in the 1930s.