West Indies Collection

Caribbean islands, 1870s
Map of West Indies and the Caribbean Sea, 1800s. Printed color lithograph

Pirates celebrating aboard ship
Drunken pirates aboard their ship celebrating a successful raid. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cuban President Tomas Estrada Palma
Tomas Estrada Palma, first president of Cuba, 1902. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Pirates capturing a ship
Pirates capturing a galleon on the high seas. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Howard Pyle illustration

Chart of the West Indies sea depths and land elevations. Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century illustration

Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1890s
City and harbor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Jamaicans bringing their produce to market, circa 1890. Hand-colored halftone illustration of a 19th-century illustration

Jamaican plantation houses from a roadside, 1880s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century Howard Pyle illustration

Captain Edward Teach, commonly called Blackbeard. Hand-colored woodcut

Henry Morgan, buccaneer in the Caribbean, 1660s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction from Exquemelin

Dutch galleons, 1600s
Dutch traders galleons at sea in the 1600s. Hand colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

New World natives in a rain forest
Natives in a tropical rain forest in the New World. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Toussaint Louverture, liberator of Haiti. Hand-colored woodcut

Santo Domingo, early 1700s
Busy port of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola, early 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of an 18th-century illustration

Puerto Rican family and their hut, 1890s
Native houses in rural Puerto Rico, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Mount Pelee destruction in Martinique, 1902
Street scene in St. Pierre after the eruption of Mount Pelee, Martinique, 1902. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Mount Pelee eruption on Martinique, 1902
One of the series of eruptions of Mount Pelee on Martinique, 1902. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Outdoor kitchen in a Jamaica town, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Columbus landing in the New World, 1492
First landing of Columbus in the New World, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Diego Velazquez de Cuellar, Spanish conqueror of Cuba. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

Bartholomew Columbuss cruel destruction of native villages on Hispaniola. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Conquistadors battling New World natives
Battle of Santa Cruz, the first bloodshed in the New World. Color lithograph of a painting by O. Graeff

Pirate
Buccaneer in the classic days of piracy. Printed halftone reproduction of a watercolor by Walter Appleton Clark

Colonial sailors fighting pirates aboard ship
Fighting off Carolina pirates in colonial days. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Pirates attacking a merchant ship
Pirates sinking a merchant ship on the high seas. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, emperor Jacques I of Haiti. Hand-colored woodcut

Map of Hispaniola in 1534, from cartography of Peter Martyr and Oviedo. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 16th-century map

A view of the tropical New World
Tropical forest of the " Spanish Main" of Central America or the Caribbean. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Native house on Hispaniola, 1500s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction from Oviedo, edition of 1547

Sailing-ship firing on a fort in Jamaica during colonial times. Hand-colored woodcut

Ox-drawn wagons carrying harvested sugar cane on a Jamaica plantation, circa 1890. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Ripe bananas brought to the wharf, Annatto Bay, Jamaica, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Native woman shopping in a farmers market, Jamaica, circa 1890. Hand-colored halftone illustration of a 19th-century illustration

Townspeople on a Jamaica street, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Jamaica woman on her way to market, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Natives loading a schooner with coconuts at Kingston, Jamaica. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Isabella, the settlement founded by Columbus on Hispaniola, 1493. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction

Map of the Atlantic with the New World coast, drawn in 1500 by Juan de la Cosa, Columbus pilot. Hand colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of the original chart

Columbus showing a map to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Early map of the New World, 1513
Tabula Terre Nove 1513: the Admirals Map of the Caribbean and Terra Incognita (unknown lands). Hand-colored woodcut reproduction

Three ships of Columbus approaching the New World, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Columbus first sighting the New World
Columbus getting his first sight of the New World from the deck of the Santa Maria, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Columbuss hospitable reception by Guacanagari, Caribbean chief, after shipwreck of Santa Maria, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Columbus giving hawks bells to natives after landing in the Caribbean, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Expedition of Christopher Columbus landing at Hispaniola, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Columbus bringing gifts from the New World to Queen Isabella of Spain 1492. Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century illustration

Wreck of Columbuss flagship Santa Maria on the coast of Hispaniola, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Landing of Columbus expedition on the island of Guanahane in 1492. Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century painting by Dioscoro Puebla

Caravel " Santa Maria, " the flagship of Columbus first voyage and which sank off Hispaniola in 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

First view of the New World by Columbus and his crew aboard the " Santa Maria, " 1492. Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century illustration

Columbus encountering an iguana when he was ashore in the New World. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Swedish slave-ship bringing Africans to the West Indies, 1786
Scandinavian slave-ship " Grev Bernstorff" under sail for the West Indies from Africa, 1786. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

One of Henry Hudsons ships, early 1600s. Hand-colored 19th-century reproduction of a woodcut from Hudsons " Voyages" published in 1612

Nicolas de Ovandos army on Hispaniola setting out for Xaragua, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Jamaican women carrying bananas to a seaport, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Leonard Parkinson, a captain of Maroons during a Negro insurrection in Jamaica, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a contemporary illustration

Native people on their way to market in Kingston, Jamaica, circa 1890. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Plantation coffee-mill, surrounded by stone terraces, Jamaica, circa 1890. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Native women carrying coal onto a steamship at Kingston, Jamaica, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Bananas and other fruit trees of Hispaniola, from a sketch published in 1572. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century reproduction of an illustration from Benzoni 1572

Hudsons ship " Half-Moon" leaving Amsterdam for the New World, 1609. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Map of North America as known in the mid-1600s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of an illustration in Campanius, 1702

Columbus expedition coasting along the northern shore of Cuba. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Columbus watching for land from the deck of the caravel Santa Maria, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cuban native chief addresses Christopher Columbus on the immortality of the soul. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Caribbean natives bring provisions to the shipwrecked crew of Columbus, 1492. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Christopher Columbus taking possession of the New World for Spain, 1492 Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century illustration

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