Bulletin of the ISPAN, No. 30: The Price Mill at Jacmel, a Fetish Object of the Nineteenth Century
- The bulletin traces the Price mill at Habitation Demontreuil near Jacmel through Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt's 1976 article in the Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology.
- The article says the steam engine and sugar mill had first drawn outside attention in 1929 during the American occupation, when the son of an American official photographed it and wrote a short technical article.
- Roosevelt travelled to Haiti in 1976 to locate the engine after earlier correspondence attempts had failed.
- ISPAN presents the Price mill as one of the earliest steam engines built from James Watt's inventions of the 1780s and as a rare industrial heritage object tied to Caribbean sugar production.
- The visible technical description identifies the machine's purpose as producing motive force to crush cane and cites a capacity of about 10 m3.
- The chronicle reports that ISPAN participated in an Ibermuseums risk-management seminar in Brasilia from 17 to 21 October 2011, where more than fifty Latin American experts met on conservation, restoration and cultural heritage management.
The Price mill at habitation Démontreuil, Bas-Cap-Rouge, near Jacmel, traced through an article in the journal of the Société d'Archéologie Industrielle. The issue also presents ISPAN's website and documentation service, appeals for photographs from the 1950s to the 1980s, and sets out preventive conservation, risk management, and crowd and tourism management at the sites. One issue of the Bulletin de l'ISPAN, the monthly bulletin of Haiti's Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National, which ran from June 2009 to at least November 2011 and documented one monument, site or historic center per issue.
How to cite
Institute for the Protection of National Heritage (ISPAN), 2011, Bulletin of the ISPAN, No. 30: The Price Mill at Jacmel, a Fetish Object of the Nineteenth Century, https://www.haiti.org/