Archival Documents

Access the documents: Photographic Damage Report Photos Various Dispatch Documents (administrator damage and weather reports, newspaper cuttings, telegraphs) Dispatch Letter on Destruction to Lime Crops Description by Anouk: This box, titled ‘Hurricane in Dominica (with photographs and newspaper cuttings)’, included 14 photographs depicting hurricane damage to radio masts, buildings, boats and trees; as well as a dispatch letter to the …

Access the document here Description by Kaila-Ann Guiste: This collection of dispatches from the colonial governor in charge of Dominica in 1916 contains normal and mandatory records of being stationed and other government matters of employment. The section which was digitized is the incident of a hurricane on August 18th 1916. The reports come from all over the island as …

Access the document here Description by Kaila-Ann Guiste: This year of dispatches are handwritten, and a bound section gives reports of a hurricane. It reports a major hurricane on the night of the 20th of September 1834. The bound stack of dispatches describes the plight of the island and issues several requests for supplies of provisions and lumber to rebuild …