Haiti - long before the disaster

While tape informagenstv and some friends list shows the horrific images from Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, on the contrary I want to show you a living city. Living people of Port-au-Prince from the past. This - archival photos National Geographic and The New York Times, where imprinting Cathedral (now destroyed), the presidential palace and just everyday life of Haiti.






© James P. Blair / National Geographic // 1987: The street football in the rain in the Haitian capital.



© James P. Blair / National Geographic // 1987: The girl running away from the photographer.



© James P. Blair / National Geographic // 1987: Mother with baby in the hospital.



© Steve Raymer / National Geographic // 1987: The Presidential Palace in the time of Jean-Claude Duvalier.



© James P. Blair / National Geographic // 1987: The peasants are resting during the harvest of sorghum.



© James P. Blair / National Geographic // 1987: The sleeping child three years' dome`, Port-au-Prince.



© James P. Blair / National Geographic // 1987: Good Friday in Port-au-Prince.



© John Scofield / National Geographic // 1987: The interior of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (now it is destroyed)



© Pan American World Airways System // 1949: Notre Dame in Port-au-Prince.



© Librado Romer / The New York Times // Believers in the Roman Catholic cathedral.



© Maggie Steber // 1980: The coastal border guard ensures that no Haitians swam out of the country by boat.



© Jean Bernard Diederich / The New York Times // 1984: The slums of Port-au-Prince.



© Richard J. Meislin / The New York Times // 1982: Iron Market in Port-au-Prince.



© Maggie Steber // 1980: A street musician in Port-au-Prince.



© Marlise Simons // 1984: Port-au-Prince.



© Maggie Steber // 1980: A school in Plaisance, Haiti.



© Maggie Steber // 1980: workers welcome President Duvalier.



© Jo Thomas / The New York Times // 1980: severzapadnoe coast where boats ran Haitians.



© Henry Giniger / The New York Times // 1967 Hopital Albert Schweitzer.

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