External Digital Archives
Puerto Rico: Telecommunications broadcasting tower in the heights of the El Yunque national forest.
The section offers a concise pan-Caribbean list of external online digital archives. These websites feature a range of open access Caribbean materials from historic documents to videos, photographs and books.
General / Interdisciplinary
- 'Caribbean' subject sources http://bit.ly/2tDInxz
- 'West Indies' subject sources http://bit.ly/2vF6TvR
- 'Antilles' subject sources - includes many Dutch and Francophone materials http://bit.ly/2tGHZ1i
- Caribbean Collections https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/caribbean-collections
- British Library, Endangered Archives Project (featuring Cuba, Jamaica, Anguilla, Grenada, St Vincent, Turks and Caicos, Montserrat) http://eap.bl.uk/database/collections.a4d?region=2
- The Power of Caribbean Poetry (audio archive feat. Olive Senior, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kei Miller, John Agard, Grace Nicholls, Mervyn Morris) http://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/The-power-of-Caribbean-poetry-word-and-sound
- Main site http://www.dloc.com/
- Thematic Collections http://dloc.com/dloc1/collect
- National Library of Jamaica dLOC Collections http://dloc.com/inlj
- Rich digital archive including photos, postcards, periodicals, maps and personal collections (Roger Mais, Erna Brodber) https://www.mona.uwi.edu/library/digital-collections-0
Anthropology and History
- Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study http://cifas.us/caribbean/
- The Caribbbean's Great War http://westindiacommittee.org/caribbeansgreatwar/
- The Early Caribbean Digital Archive http://omekasites.northeastern.edu/ECDA/
- University of Miami, Cuban Heritage Collection http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/chc.php
Film and Photography
British Pathé
- West Indies Collection http://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/stuart/West-Indies
- Cuba Collection http://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/page/cuba
The Travel Film Archive
- Caribbean section http://www.travelfilmarchive.com/results.php?region_id=4
- The Caribbean Photography Archive https://www.flickr.com/photos/caribbeanphotoarchive
- British National Archives
- Caribbean Photography collection https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/collections/72157630635006206/
- Caribbean Through a Lens project http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbean/
- The Deena Stryker photographs, Duke University - Cuban politics and everyday life https://repository.duke.edu/dc/stryker