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Old Wolmers School - Parish Church tower in background taken from Laws Street

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A section of the Old Wolmers School is still standing after the 1907 Earthquake. Debris can be seen on Laws Street and Church Streets. Two women walk along Laws Street, two women stand at the corner of Law and Church Streets.

Old Wolmers School Yard Parade, next to Kingston Parish Church

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A woman at the entrance to the Old Wolmers School Yard looks at a sign attached to the fence near a lamp post. Broken bricks are stacked along the walkway in the aftermath of the earthquake on January 14, 1907.

General view of the Old Iron Bridge

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A view of the Old Iron Bridge in Spanish Town, St. Catherine.

Cathedral, Spanish Town

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A man sits atop a barrel on a horse-drawn cart as it drives towards the Spanish Town Cathedral in St. Catherine. Two other men are seen along the roadway.

Air Mail arrives in the Island

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Airport workers unload bags of air mail for Jamaica from an airplane while the pilots observe the activity.

Surface mail arrives in the Island

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Bags containing surface mail is lowered from a ship as men below anxiously wait with outstretched arms to collect them.

A mail delivery on the Mona Housing Estate near Kingston Jamaica, 1961

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A postman on bicycle, attired in uniform including bowler hat, delivers mail to a man at his gate at the Mona Housing Estate, near Kingston, 1961.

Postmen at G.P.O.

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Postmen attire in jackets and ties and bowler hats form a queue with thier bicycles, in front of the General Post Office, Downtown, Kingston, prior to embarking on their delivery of the mail.

Sorting the mail G.P.O.

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Employees sort mail at the General Post Office, Kingston, Jamaica.

Mr. R.H. Fletcher, Post Master of Jamaica plus Captain Holland with 1st Arrival to Cuba, Dec 10, 1930

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Reginald Honan Fletcher, Post Master of Jamaica, (with bowler hat in hand), Captain Holland and unidentified man stand with bag of Jamaica's first dispatch of air mail to Cuba, Dec 10, 1930.