Found 2 collections related to Caribbean Area -- History

The distinguished social scientist and activist St. Clair Drake only claimed the distinction of being one of the first eleven or twelve persons of color to secure graduate training in anthropology between 1900 and 1945. Divided into 18 series and spanning the years 1935 to 1990, the collection documents Drake's career as an educator and social anthropologist in the United States, Liberia, Great Britain and Ghana, and consists for the most part of correspondence, writings, office files and research materials. less

The Schomburg Center nineteenth and early twentieth-century Caribbean photographs collection, which dates from about 1855 to 1930, consists of approximately 680 photographic prints and 11 photograph albums. Images in this collection depict agricultural scenes, wilderness landscapes, urban views, and industrial settings, as well as local people, tourists, and foreign business people in the Caribbean. less