Archives
Manuscripts:
Shipwrecks
& Travels, Forts & Batteries, Sugar & Slavery, West
Indian History, Caribbean history, and Jewish history. etc.
Nevis
Council Minutes, Laws of Nevis.
Newspaper
collection (Nevis & St. Kitts)
Church
records:
Methodist and Anglican Church records
Methodist: Births and Baptismal (1825-1894)
Anglican: St. Thomas' Parish;
Births & Baptismal (1831-1920)
Deaths (1827-1956)
Marriages (1827-1965)
St. James
Parish:
Births & Baptismal (1832&1893-1900, 1839-1938, 6th April,
1939)
Deaths (1839-1893, some; 1843-1913)
Marriages (1907-1989)
St. Pauls
Parish:
Births & Baptismal (1824-1953)
Deaths (1837-1965)
Marriages (1826-1962)
Map collection:
West Indian maps (from 1656), plantation charts, navigation
map, aerial maps of Nevis
Audio-Visual
Materials: photographs, slides, video cassettes, audio tapes,
and microfiche of the Weslyn Methodist Society
Oral
History Collection: manuscripts, video cassettes and audio
tapes, microfiche
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Library
West Indian
Collection - history, geography, culture
Flora and
Fauna of the Caribbean (this includes a specimen collection)
Alexander
Hamilton Collection
Horatio Nelson Collection
Environmental
Topics (specific to Nevis and the Caribbean)
Historic
Preservation
Environmental
Education:
Caribbean
and West Indian History Texts:
- Swords,
Ships & Sugar: history of Nevis by Vincent K. Hubbard, Revised
addition, 2002
- Arawaks
to Africans by R. Greenwood & S. Hambler, 1979
- Slavery
and the Slave Trade;
James Walvin/1983
- Caribbean
Life and Culture;
Sir Fred Phillips/1991
- Global
Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean
Community of Nevis by Karen Fogg, 1993.
- Nevis Queen
of the Caribbean by Deborah Lellouch, 2001
Rare
Collection:
- A Natural
History of the Island of Nevis by William Smith., 1745.
- West Indian
Fortune by Richard Pares (the best plantation documentation),
1962.
- Handbook
of the Leeward Islands;
Henry Watkins
- Beinecke
Collection - a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints, maps
and drawings,
1521-1860 of the Lesser Antilles
- General
Guide Book
Beinecke
Collection-a catalogue of books, manuscrips, prints, maps and
drawings (1521-1860) of the Lesser Antilles (held at Hamilton
College, Clinton, New York.
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