William Walker Whitehall Johnston photograph album of Wales, the West Indies, and the 1st West India Regiment
Scope and Contents
Fifty-five photographs chiefly document a stay by Johnston with the Tennant family at Cadoxton Lodge Estate in Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Wales. Images include portraits, including portraits of Johnston's brothers, as well as several members of the Tennant family, such as Charles Tennant and Henry Tennant; views of the Cadoxton Lodge Estate, including the house and garden; and several views of the Neath Abbey ruins. Other images include views of iron and tin works, Aberdulais Falls, the Tennant Canal, and the beach at the Mumbles near Swansea. Several photographs depict sites in London, including workmen and boys gathered at the construction site of the Victoria Railway Bridge (later known as the Grosvenor Bridge) over the River Thames.
Seventy-nine photographs document sites and people in the West Indies, as well as enlisted men, non-commissioned officers, and officers in the 1st West India Regiment. The photographs of the regiment depict soldiers, officers, military exercises, and barracks. A group portrait shows officers involved in the Morant Bay Rebellion, including Johnston and generals Luke Smythe O'Connor and Alexander Abercromby Nelson.
Photographs of sites in the West Indies include buildings, markets, and streets. Many images depict sites in Nassau on New Providence, including Christ Church Cathedral, Fort Charlotte, Fort Fincastle, Market Street Arch, Old Fort of Nassau, Queen's Staircase, and Vendue House, as well as the residence of the governor and an octoganal-shaped city jail. Images of sites in Kingston, Jamaica, include the Coke Memorial Methodist Church, Kingston Theatre, and Up-Park Camp. Several photographs show the settlement and barracks at Castries, Saint Lucia. Photographs of Port of Spain, Trinidad include views of Marine Square and Almond Walk. Photographs of Havana, Cuba depict the Plaza de Armas, including El Templete, the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, and a monument to Ferdinand VII of Spain. There are also photographs of the lighthouse at Great Isaac Cay, South Bimini Island. Photographs of sites include several panoramic photographs.
Dates
- 1858-1865
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
0.4 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Overview
William Walker Whitehall Johnston (1835-1886)
Charles Tennant (1796-1873)
West India Regiment
General note
General note
Processing Information
- Aberdulais Falls (Wales) -- Pictorial works
- Bimini Islands (Bahamas) -- Pictorial works
- Cadoxton Lodge Estate (Wales) -- Pictorial works
- Castries (Saint Lucia) -- Pictorial works
- Christ Church Cathedral (Nassau, Bahamas) -- Pictorial works
- Coke Memorial Methodist Church (Kingston, Jamaica) -- Pictorial works
- Fort Charlotte (Nassau, Bahamas) -- Pictorial works
- Fort Fincastle (Bahamas) -- Pictorial works
- Great Britain. Army -- Pictorial works
- Great Britain. Army. West India Regiment, 1st -- Pictorial works
- Havana (Cuba) -- Pictorial works
- Johnston, Francis Hope, d. 1874
- Johnston, Thomas Francis, ca. 1808-1873
- Johnston, Walter Mowbray, 1842-1919
- Johnston, William Walker Whitehall, 1835-1886
- Kingston (Jamaica) -- Pictorial works
- Kingston Theatre (Kingston, Jamaica) -- Pictorial works
- Morant Bay Rebellion -- Pictorial works
- Mumbles (Swansea, Wales) -- Pictorial works
- Nassau (Bahamas) -- Pictorial works
- Neath Abbey (Neath, Wales) -- Pictorial works
- Nelson, Alexander Abercromby, Sir, 1816-1893
- O'Connor, Luke Smythe, 1806-1873
- Old Fort of Nassau (Bahamas) -- Pictorial works
- Panoramas
- Panoramic photographs
- Photograph albums
- Photographic prints
- Plaza de Armas (Havana, Cuba) -- Pictorial works
- Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Pictorial works
- Soldiers, Black -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works
- Soldiers, Black -- West Indies -- Pictorial works
- Tennant Canal (Wales) -- Pictorial works
- Tennant family -- Pictorial works
- Tennant, Charles, 1796-1873
- Tennant, Henry, 1794-1865
- Victoria Bridge (London, England) -- Pictorial works
- West Indies -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Guide to the William Walker Whitehall Johnston Photograph Album of Wales, the West Indies, and the 1st West India Regiment
- Author
- by Matthew Daniel Mason
- Date
- September 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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