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Handbags, hats and place mats crafted
"Handbags, hats and place mats are generally bought and then embroidered by vendors at the Crafts market. Here skillful hands create beautiful designs in straw."
Beautiful embroidered straw goods
"Beautiful embroidered straw goods in one of the stalls at the Jamaica Crafts market, at its present location at Port Royal Street."
Finalists - Miss Jamaica Beauty Contest 1973
Group photograph of the twenty finalists of the 1973 Miss Jamaica Beauty Contest.
Shoes for beauty contestants
Three styles of fashion foots that will be worn by beauty contestants.
Miss Workers Savings Loan Bank
Loi Monroe, Miss Workers Savings and Loan Bank and the 1st runner up for St. Andrew. She is 19 years old, 5'6" tall and her measurements are: 37-25-38.
Miss Baton runner up in Miss. Westmoreland
Genevieve Williams, Miss Bata, is the runner-up in the Miss Westmoreland beauty contest. She is 18 years old, 5'4" tall and her measurements are 35-24-38.
Joan Miranda
"Paul Levy, Gillette representative shares a big laugh with Joan Miranda, Miss Fort Clarence Bikini."
Miss Trelawny 73
A smiling Miss Trelawny 1973, being crowned.
Miss Jamaica finalists, 1973
The 20 finalists in the Miss Jamaica beauty contest, with National Hero, Sir Alexander Bustamante and his wife, Lady Bustamante at their Irish Town residence.
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Morant Point Lighthouse

The Morant Point Lighthouse, Jamaica's oldest lighthouse, built in 1841 and located at the easternmost point of Jamaica. Repair work is being carried…