Beinecke Collection
Sugar Workers
Description
The Beinecke Collection is the pièce de résistance of the Hamilton College Library collections. It is the preeminent collection of materials on the Lesser Antilles, largely from the 16th-19th centuries. The collection includes hundreds of rare original documents, fifty maps, plantation reports, correspondence, and oil paintings and watercolors.
Inventory
This collections contains over 1,800 printed volumes and 1,000 manuscripts, but only two of them have been digitized so far.
- Reports relating to Mr. Gordon's estates in the West Indies (1824 manuscript)
A first-hand account of life on plantations on the islands of St. Kitts, Antigua, and Saint Vincent.
(Viewed best using a recent version of Firefox.) - Ten views in the island of Antigua : in which are represented the process of sugar making, and the employment of the Negroes, in the field, boiling-house and distillery, drawings made by William Clark. (London: T. Clay, 1823)
Background Information
The Beinecke Collection was originally developed by Walter Beinecke, Jr., and donated to the Hamilton College Library. The Library has added to the collection in recent years when possible.
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There is a printed catalog of the Beinecke Collection (Hough, Samuel J. The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Maps, and Drawings, 1521-1860. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1994), 0813012929 (Hamilton call number, F2001 .H68 1994)
Christian Goodwillie, Director of Special Collections and Archives
E-mail: cgoodwil@hamilton.edu
Telephone: (315) 859-4447
Special Collections
Burke Library
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323
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