The UW Mona Library provides access to some of our Special Collections through digitization. Please visit Mona Library Digital Collections to view our online collections which provide digital access to documents, photographs, maps, periodicals, postcards and manuscripts from the West Indies and Special Collections of The UWI Mona Library.
The Elsa Goveia Collection
On show are nineteen historical pictures from a photograph album in the Professor Elsa Goveia online collection. These images show Goveia in the academic and socio-political activism for which she is known, but they also give a rare glimpse into her early years. A bio-bibliography also complements this online collection, giving some background on the revered Professor Elsa Goveia and highlighting her publications, lecturers and other achievements in West Indian history research. The Elsa Goveia collection housed at The UWI Mona Library spans some nine archival boxes, and these are in the process of being digitized to better improve research and scholarship.
UWI Historical Photographs
A collection of over 500 historical photographs depicting the construction of the various buildings of the campus of the University College of the West Indies (UCWl), now The University of the West Indies. Included also are photographs of campus life ranging from formal lectures to social activities. Of particular interest are the photographs of the first batch of students who arrived in 1948, the first Principal of the UCWI and the installation of several Chancellors including the first Chancellor of the UCWI, H.R.H., Princess Alice of Athlone in 1950.
