Photographs of Jamaican musicians
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 87-33
name: label: Names
content: A. Duperly & Son
place: label: Place
content: Jamaica
culture: label: Culture
content: Jamaicans
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Adolphe Duperly (d. 1865) was an engraver, lithographer, and photographic pioneer.  He opened a daguerreotype studio in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1840.  He was joined by his sons Henri Louis and Oscar and the studio became the first Kodak dealer in the region.  A. Duperly & Sons, which lasted until the early 20th century, specialized in postcards and photo books made from portraits and landscape views.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Prints (albumen)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860-1900
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Sent to the archives July 22, 1987, by Mary Kay Davies, of the Anthropology Library. A note on the envelope in which they were stored is in Clifford Evans' handwriting and states, "From Holmes' Files--Jamaica in File marked 1895."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.87-33
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Studio portraits
label: Type
content: Cartes-de-visite
label: Type
content: Cabinet photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Studio portraits
label: Genre/Form
content: Cartes-de-visite
label: Genre/Form
content: Cabinet photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection consists of studio portraits of Jamaican musicians. It includes two photographs by A. Duperly & Sons studio depicting members of the West Indian Regiment band in the Zouave uniform, as well as one photograph of a Jamaican man holding a violin.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional A. Duperly & Sons photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 8 and Photo Lot 97.