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![Historic photograph of Market Street in St. John's, Antigua dated March 1961.]()
Antigua and Barbuda
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![Historic photograph of Watertransport op Aruba dated 1947 in the Nationaal Archief collection.]()
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![Historic photograph of local boys in Bimini, Bahamas dated 1914.]()
The Bahamas
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![Historic photograph of several generations of Barbadians dated 1955.]()
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![Historic photograph of men with barge-loads of bundled blocks of chicle in Belize Harbor, Belize dated 1919.]()
Belize
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![A Nineteenth Century studio photograph of an unidentified young man in Bermuda.]()
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![Historic photograph of vrouw en kind op ezel met watertonnen op Bonaire dated 1947.]()
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![Historic photograph of Noel Ebanks on West Bay Beach, Cayman Islands dated March 1955.]()
Cayman Islands
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![Circa early 1900s historic photograph of street vendor, children, and dog in Cuba.]()
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![Historic photograph of Amello in een pick-up op Curaçao dated 1947.]()
Curaçao
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![Black and white photograph dated 1961 of Edith Bellot wearing the traditional costume of Dominica based on French eighteenth century fashion.]()
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![Historic photograph circa 1900-1940 of Mercado de Carne No.1 in the Dominican Republic.]()
Dominican Republic
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![Historic photograph of a market in Cayenne, French Guiana dated 1915.]()
French Guiana
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![Black and white wedding photograph, circa 1950-1955, of Mr. Leo Alexander and his bride of Belmont Village, Grenada.]()
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![Historic photograph of three women from Guadeloupe at Ellis Island dated 1911.]()
Guadeloupe
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![Black and white photograph of old villager of Indo-Caribbean descent on the Diamond Plantation in Guyana circa 1960.]()
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![Early 1900s historic photograph of cobbler in Haiti.]()
Haiti
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![Historic photograph circa 1899 of dessert sellers in Kingston, Jamaica.]()
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![Black and white photograph on Jost Van Dyke with the Methodist Chapel in the background.]()
Jost Van Dyke
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![Historic photograph of Fort-de-France, Martinique circa 1915-1920.]()
Martinique
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![Black and white photograph dated March 1961 of a farm worker listening to her radio during a lunch-time break in Montserrat.]()
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![Historic photograph dated 1909 of the quaint balcony-hung Avenue B in the Panama Canal Zone.]()
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![Historic photograph of children in Utuado, Puerto Rico dated January 1942.]()
Puerto Rico
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![Black and white photograph dated 1947 of kinderen op straat in het dorp Windwardside op Saba.]()
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![Historic photograph of shoemakers in St. Croix, Danish West Indies.]()
St. Croix
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![Black and white photograph dated 1941 of St. Johnians at the dock in Cruz Bay.]()
St. John
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![Black and white photograph dated 1950 of workers leaving an estate in St. Kitts after cutting operations.]()
St. Kitts and Nevis
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![Black and white photograph dated 1961 of a young banana cutter on a smallholding near Castries, St. Lucia.]()
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![Historic photograph circa 1895 of Marigot, hoofdstad van Saint Martin.]()
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![Black and white photograph by Jack Delano dated 1941 of women in Frenchtown, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.]()
St. Thomas
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![Historic photograph circa 1903 of Kingstown, St. Vincent, British West Indies, from the heights, showing Bequia and the Grenadines.]()
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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![Black and white photograph dated 1955 by Willem van de Poll of De Statius-steelband op Sint Eustatius.]()
Sint Eustatius
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![Black and white photograph dated 1947 by Willem van de Poll of kreeftenvissers in Simpson Bay Lagoon op Sint-Maarten.]()
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![Black and white photograph dated 1955 of Afro-Surinamese and Creole women in Paramaribo, Suriname wearing traditional koto dress in Government Square.]()
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![Black and white photograph circa 1922-1923 of a West Indian couple in front of their home in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.]()
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![Black and white photograph circa 1915-1920 of a seated Indo-Caribbean basket weaver in Trinidad.]()
Trinidad and Tobago
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![Black and white photograph circa 1929 of men loading salt from a horse and cart on the hopper of a grinding mill in Turks and Caicos Islands.]()
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
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![Black and white historic photograph circa 1900-1906 of the interior of a provision store in Caracas, Venezuela.]()
Venezuela
