The display is called the St Helier Street Gallery and is an extension of the Your Story, Our History exhibition at the Jersey Museum, which is a celebration of the 125th anniversary of the JEP.
It is being run as a collaboration between the JEP, the Société Jersiaise, Jersey Heritage, Jersey Tourism and Signtech, which helped construct the images.
Gareth Syvret, a photographic archivist at the Société Jersiaise, was asked to come up with ideas to capture the imagination of the public.
‘As an extension of the exhibition at the museum we were asked to put together a street gallery and to produce something unusual and exciting,’ he said.
‘Putting the images in the area where the photographs were taken we thought would be a powerful way to compare historical scenes with what is contemporary.
‘And with this year being the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Jersey from German rule, we also have a Liberation theme to the display.’
Several of the images are taken from the Occupation period, including a crowd in the Royal Square listening to Sir Winston Churchill’s speech on 8 May 1945, as well as crowds outside the Pomme d’Or Hotel on 9 May 1945 and liberating British forces marching through New Street on 10 May 1945.
Sean Guegan, a director at Signtech, said that many of the images had been made from a ‘special scuff-proof material’, which has allowed them to be laid out on the ground for the public to view.
Other pictures include a CND protest outside the States Building in 1982, the decoration of Queen Street (then King Street) for a Royal visit in 1921 and a coronation street party in Ann Street in 1953.
Altogether 8,500 brochures have been produced as a guide to the Street Gallery, which include a map showing the locations of the images.
They can be collected at sites including the Société Jersiaise, the tourism office on the Esplanade, the Jersey Library and Jersey Heritage sites.
