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  • Collection: Miss Lou Collection

Louise Bennett, top Jamaican Folklorist performs the rites for traditional wedding ceremony

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Louise Bennett, Jamaican folklorist, does a dramatization of a traditional wedding ceremony which is being filmed by a television photographer.

Louise Bennett and male actor in Shakespeare Costume

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Louise Bennett and male actor dressed in costumes, performing a Shakespeare play.

Louise Bennett speaking to group seated on ground.

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Reading from her published work, Jamaica Labrish, Louise Bennett amuses this group of Jamaican children.

Louise Bennett Coverley at Workshop

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A full photograph of Louise Bennett Coverley, holding a pamphlet in her hand while making a presentation at a workshop.

Louise Bennett, with husband Eric Coverley

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Louise Bennett and her husband Eric Coverley share a light moment as they stand in their living room beside a table decorated with collectibles. There are paintings on the wall behind them, and a lamp hanging from the ceiling.

Lou and Ranny Show being recorded at JBC

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Ranny Williams - right, Louise Bennett, 2nd right and others at microphone reading scripts for the recording of the 'Lou and Ranny Show' at the JBC Studio. A live musical band is in the background.

Louise Bennett

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Picture of Louise Bennett sitting on a patio, seemingly speaking to person or persons not in the picture.

Miss Lou and Maas Ran with a group of children

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Louise Bennett (Miss Lou), Ranny Williams (Maas Ran), at right, and three other adults speaking with children who are seated on mats on cut stone patio.

Ranny and Friends

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Ranny Williams (3rd left) and Friends, including Louise Bennett (2nd left), pose for a group photograph.

Ranny Williams in scene from Moonshine Anancy

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Ranny Williams (left) and other cast members including Louise Bennett (3rd left) in a scene from Moonshine Anancy.