Dr. Owen Minott's Rolleicord camera

Dr. Owen Minott's Rolleicord camera

CULTURAL HERITAGE

Dr Owen Minott was one of the pioneering 33 medical students of the UCWI in 1948 and subsequently a noted amateur photographer. He was one of the early (perhaps the earliest) chroniclers of the UCWI, producing hundreds of 2.25” black and white negatives and prints and subsequently 33mm images of the campus and its population. This was his second camera, according to his widow Margaret.

English

Physical Object

5909

current,13.083398,-59.602242;

University of West Indies

TEXT

Dr Owen Minott was one of the pioneering 33 medical students of the UCWI in 1948 and subsequently a noted amateur photographer. He was one of the early (perhaps the earliest) chroniclers of the UCWI, producing hundreds of 2.25” black and white negatives and prints and subsequently 33mm images of the campus and its population. This was his second camera, according to his widow Margaret.

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