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Jamaica Tourist Board poster showing renowned fashion designer in the 1950s and 60s, Dorthy McNab, dyeing fabrics.

A local woman is captured holding an infant in a Jamaica Tourist Board poster advertising its nanny service available to tourists.

A Jamaica Tourist Board poster with the words "You haven't heard Jamaica until you've heard Jamaica's marimba box. It's like a bass fiddle. Only we sit on it" and an image of a man playing the marimba.

Prisoners serving 'hard labour' at the General Penitentiary. The prisoners are on a construction site - some are breaking stones while others are carrying loads on their heads.

View of the entrance of the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre.

Inside view of the general penitentiary on Tower Street, Kingston.

A view of the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre popularly known as 'GP'.

A busy scene along Market Street in the capital city of Antigua, St. John's.

Poster by the Jamaica Tourist Board with a close-up of a young woman's face and a hibiscus flower.

Enslaved Africans from Trinidad with their feet clamped between bed-stocks as punishment for being intoxicated.