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The Korotso dancers from Nigeria performing at Ward Theatre

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"The Korotso dancers from Nigeria who performed in Jamaica on Monday and yesterday at the Ward Theatre."

York Town, Clarendon

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"Clearly this is bad and something must be done about it, the quicker, the better is the consensus among Housing Minister Tony Spaulding [left] Sites and Services Director, Clive Laidley [centre] and Youth and Community Development Minister, Hugh…

York Town, Clarendon

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"Everything goes in the construction of these dwellings - from rusty sheets of zinc for roofing, bamboo-lattices and flattened barrel sides -a t the York Town squatter settlements - unit for human occupation. This the Housing Ministry recognises, and…

The Barbadoes mulatto girl

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Print depicting a Barbadian mulatto woman buying produce from two female vendors. One of the vendors is fully clad and sitting on a basket with another basket of fruits/vegetables before her. The second woman is standing topless with a basket of…

The West India washer-women

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Four West Indian washerwomen - one a mulatta - washing in the river. A child is among the women who are covered from the waist down in cloths and wearing wraps on their heads.

Village merry making

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Villagers merry making in the island of St. Vincent, with dancers and musicians. In the background is the landscape with huts on a hill.

The West India flower girl

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A West Indian woman, wearing a checkered shawl and headwrap, holds out a dish with flowers towards two women. The woman wearing a broad rimmed hat has taken one of the flowers to smell. A boy, seated at the entrance of a nearby building, is watching…

The fruit market at St. Vincent

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Vendors at a market in St. Vincent attempting to sell pumpkin and other market goods.

Free natives of Dominica

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"Free natives of Dominica. This plate is dedicated to Sir Wm. Young, Bart. by his most obliged and devoted servt."