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Joseph Robert Love, M.D.

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Photograph of Joseph Robert Love, M.D. popularly known as Robert Love.

Roadway, Cane River, St. Andrew, Jamaica

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Image showing roadway through the Cane River, St. Andrew. Two men are seen by the roadway. Cane River enters the sea on the Kingston/ St. Thomas highway and is formed from rivers such as the Barbecue River that drain the area between Dallas Mountain…

Sir Alexander Bustamante showing his party sign

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Sir Alexander Bustamante, founder of the Jamaica Labour party and Jamaica's first Prime Minister after independence in 1962, showing his party sign.

Jamaica Brahman, Hanover, Jamaica

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Photograph of cattle, Jamaica Brahman. Hanover makes a sizable contribution to livestock and dairy farming in Jamaica. Eastern Hanover is the principle livestock rearing area. The town of Shettlewood is one of the better known cattle rearing areas.…

Hanover Parish Church, Lucea, Hanover

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A view of the Hanover Parish Church. The Church was built in the year 1725 - two years after the parish of Hanover came in to being in the year 1723. Jamaica Archives' records reveal that the Church had its first baptism in 1725, first burial in…

The Jamaican Railway Corporation engine 54, on its last run entering May Pen, Clarendon, 1968

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Engine 54, puffing large clouds of smoke, makes it way on its last run through May Pen, Clarendon - January 13, 1968.

Indian girls preparing rice

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Photograph of two girls of East Indian descent preparing rice for cooking.

East Indians preparing rice, Jamaica

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Photograph of East Indian indentured labourers in rice fields from the Valdez collection, circa 1890 . [Original title on photograph is: Coolies preparing rice - Jamaica]

Workers threshing grain in Clarendon rice field

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Workers threshing grain in Clarendon rice field [date unknown]

Porus, Jamaica

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Four men are in conversation in the middle of the road in Porus, Manchester. Wooden buildings are on both sides of the road, a horse-drawn carriage is parked along the dirt road.