safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Mitchell, Carleton
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Nevis
Circa 1947
2.25 x 2.25 x 0

Safety negative; photo of poster on wall, written about a woman who died at young age; some of words unintelligible; it reads (what can be read) "HERE LYES E BODY OF MRS. ELIZABETH LAKE DAUGHTER OF IACOB LAKE, ESQ. LATE GOVERNOR OFTHIS ISLAND OF MEVIS [sic] WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE Y 18TH DAY OF THIS PRESENT JUNE 1664 BEING AGED FOURTEEN YEARES AND MOUNTHS NINE. A [ ] Vertuous, Blamelesse, Spottlesse maid/By Cruell Death was Betraid/ O Sweetest Lide (alas) a Barbarous Crime/ To Cropp a Flower so Sweet so neare y prime/ [ ] 'Carpe' I may not pre termit/ her Admirable worch her pregnant witt/ Modest she was Chaste Dutifull and Staide/ nor proud nor Scornfull (yet) a perfecct maid/ Her parent onely Joy. this Islands grace/ In Heaven sure, shall be her reasting place/ Cease Brinish [?] teares forbeare your grevious moane/ [ ] happy change tis a Caellstrall [?] throne/ [ ]red is what Comfort. doth this give/ [ ]y a debt to dy and yet to live". [See comment page] Probably Nevis; for similar views see 1996.31.1311 - 1313; handwritten on original envelope "1402". Photographed by Carleton Mitchell.

1996.31.1311