Le fils du commandant Rosier-By
Page from Le pays des négres: voyage a Haiti, ancienne partie francaise de Saint-Domingue, 1881
Hachette et cie, Paris (Publisher)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. “Le fils du commandant Rosier-By” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1881. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7380-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Toussaint Louverture
Illustration from Nouvelle géographie de l'île d'Haïti: contenant des notions historiques et topographiques sur les autres Antilles, 1888
Chez l'auteur, Port-au-Prince (Publisher)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. “Toussaint Louverture.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1888. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-2265-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Quelques types d'Haitiens.
Illustration, 1910
Societe anonyme belge d'imprimerie, Bruxelles (Publisher)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. “Quelques types d'Haitiens.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-a07a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Hayti [Haiti]
Coins of all nations
Cigarette Card, 1889
Duke’s Cigarettes
Caricature wears a beret with red star decoration, red shirt, and white pants. He has dark skin, blush cheeks, exaggerated nose, smiling red lips, missing front teeth, and bare feet in a relaxed pose. His body is mostly covered by the 50 Centimes coin which features the Haitian coat of arms and the phrase “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”, the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti.
Surrounding this cigarette card are photographs by British explorer Harry Johnston; and photos and illustrations from books published in Port-au-Prince, Paris, Brussels and London.
George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. “Hayti [Haiti].” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-350b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
A "vudu" house, Haiti.
Photograph from The Negro in the New World, 1910
Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927 (Author)
Methuen, London (Publisher)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. “A ‘vudu’ house, Haiti.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910. hhttps://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-8d25-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
A Haitian peasant on his way to market.
Photograph from The Negro in the New World, 1910
Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927 (Author)
Methuen, London (Publisher)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. “A Haitian peasant on his way to market.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-8d1d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
An open-air market, Haiti.
Photograph from The Negro in the New World, 1910
Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927 (Author)
Methuen, London (Publisher)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. “An open-air market, Haiti.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-8d1c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
