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Jamaica: watching Dorothy McNab dyeing her fabrics

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Jamaica Tourist Board poster showing renowned fashion designer in the 1950s and 60s, Dorthy McNab, dyeing fabrics.

Jamaica: her ancestors were African, German, Welsh, Indian, French & Costa Rican

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Advertisement with an image of a mixed-race woman with the words: "Her ancestors were African, German, Welsh, Indian, French and Costa Rican. She's pure Jamaican." The advertisement speaks to Jamaica's motto 'Out of Many, One People.'

Jamaica: her flowers are fresh, the morning is beautiful

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Vintage Jamaica Tourist Board poster with an image of a Jamaican "flowers lady" smiling broadly and holding a bouquet of flowers.

Jamaica: in a land where you find a dessert called matrimony

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Advertisement with images of different couples on vacation in Jamaica.

Food for the K.P.H.

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"Some of the vegetables for the patients at the Kingston Public Hospital, [KPH] being transported to the store room. In photo, from left are Mr. Aston Brown, Project Coordinator, Ms. Lexietia Nairn, a dietician and Mr. Linton Thompson of the…

Kingston Public Hospital donations

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Items such as fans and cleaning utensils being donated to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH).

Kingston Public Hospital - kitchen facility & food

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Food, utensils and other items in the kitchen of the Kingston Public Hospital.

Kingston Public Hospital - kitchen

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Cartons and bags of food in the Kingston Public Hospital's kitchen.

Psychiatric Unit

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" "Psychiatric patients are worthy of dignified and beautiful surroundings," so bold and bright colours, dramatic architecture, thriving indoor gardens are regular features."

Psychiatric Unit

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" "A statement in stone and steel": The new psychiatric unit won for its architecture, the Governor General's Award for Excellence in 1971."