Also known as: Tamerlyn T. Chamberlain, Tamerlyn Chamberlain pamphlet, Port-au-Prince, Haiti pamphlet, island of opportunity pamphlet
Last updated: April 16, 2026
An 1918 illustrated investment-promotion pamphlet produced by U.S. Navy photographer Tamerlyn T. Chamberlain advertising Haiti's 'commercial and industrial possibilities' during the American occupation. Using paired before-and-after photographs — Americanized homes against Haitian shacks, clean uniformed soldiers against ragged civilians — the pamphlet translated occupation power into a visual language of modernization, discipline, and investable order, selling Haiti as a development frontier to potential investors and businessmen.
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Tamerlyn T. Chamberlain. "Port-au-Prince, Haiti." 1918. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/port-au-prince-haiti-chamberlain-pamphlet. Accessed 2026-05-05.