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[Old harbour market, Ponsie's Tavern, Jamaica] – Historic Print

[Old harbour market, Ponsie's Tavern, Jamaica], [between 1808 and 1816] — historic image
[Old harbour market, Ponsie's Tavern, Jamaica], [between 1808 and 1816]. Historic image from the Taverns & Saloons collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Old harbour market, Ponsie's Tavern, Jamaica], preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Old harbour market, Ponsie's Tavern, Jamaica]

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Ponsie's Tavern and the old harbour market share this watercolor, which dates from between 1808 and 1816 and shows a Jamaican waterfront town during the British colonial period. Markets like this one were busy meeting points where traders, planters' households, and enslaved and free people bought, sold, and exchanged food and goods. Taverns in such towns offered rest and refreshment to travelers arriving by road or sea. The painting is a useful record of how public life was organized around a small colonial port in the early nineteenth century.

Created / published[between 1808 and 1816]
GenreWatercolors 1800-1820.
SubjectsMarkets--Jamaica--1800-1820. Trees--Jamaica--1800-1820. Hotels & taverns--Jamaica--1800-1820.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,293 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179254

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