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Sunday, February 16, 2025

NALIS’ Heritage Library hosts exhibition on Port of Spain city for its 108th Anniversary

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Post cards fea­tur­ing Port of Spain now and then, along with large pho­tographs of sev­er­al land­marks in the city are now on dis­play in a spe­cial ex­hib­it at the Ro­tun­da, Na­tion­al Li­brary. 

Mount­ed by the Her­itage Li­brary, the ex­hi­bi­tion is be­ing host­ed in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the 108th An­niver­sary of the City of Port of Spain, usu­al­ly cel­e­brat­ed on June 26. The ex­hi­bi­tion runs un­til Ju­ly 26, 2022.

A re­lease from NALIS notes that in ad­di­tion to show­cas­ing pho­tographs, post­cards and books, the ex­hi­bi­tion pro­vides a suc­cinct chrono­log­i­cal his­to­ry of the city. 

“View­ers will learn that by 1760, the pop­u­la­tion of Port of Spain num­bered about 400 peo­ple who resided in what is to­day Nel­son and Dun­can Streets,” NALIS ex­plains.  “By the 1920s, the city had grown in­to a vi­brant com­mer­cial and res­i­den­tial hub with var­i­ous forms of ve­hic­u­lar trans­port from mo­tor­cars, bus­es, trams and trains. By then, the road in­fra­struc­ture was mod­ernised to ac­com­mo­date this heavy traf­fic of per­sons flock­ing to the city.”

To­day, the City of Port-of-Spain cov­ers a to­tal area of 2,550 hectares and in­cludes the sub­urbs of Wood­brook, St. Clair, Bel­mont, St. James and New Town.

“Port-of-Spain City is home to the largest con­tain­er ship­ping port in the coun­try and is one of the ma­jor ship­ping hubs in the Caribbean. The largest stock ex­change in the Caribbean, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change, is al­so based in Port-of-Spain,” NALIS says.

The ex­hib­it al­so points to an in­ter­est­ing tit­bit in T&T his­to­ry in the 20th Cen­tu­ry—In the 1950’s Port-of-Spain was ear­marked to serve as the cap­i­tal of the short-lived West In­dies Fed­er­a­tion, which sought to uni­fy the Caribbean.

NALIS says the in­for­ma­tion re­sources, pho­tos and the post card col­lec­tion are part of the Her­itage Li­brary’s col­lec­tion, which can be utilised by the pub­lic for re­search pur­pos­es.

The pub­lic is in­vit­ed to view the ex­hi­bi­tion dur­ing the li­brary’s busi­ness hours: Mon­day to Fri­day 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, and on Sat­ur­days from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. 

For more in­for­ma­tion, the pub­lic is in­vit­ed to vis­it:

Her­itage Li­brary’s Face­book page at www.face­book.com/NAL­ISHLDTT

NALIS’ web­site at www.nalis.gov.tt

…or send an email to asknalis@nalis.gov.tt

NALISCity of Port-of-Spain


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