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Antique chairs and table presented to the Institute of Jamaica.

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Antique furniture presented to the Institute of Jamaica.

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A St. Andrew farmer presents an Arawak axe to IOJ's Mr. Farr and Neville Dawes, 1972

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Munro College Chapel

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The Munro College Chapel beside another building on the Munro property.

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Limbo dancers

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Painting of a group of persons limbo dancing in a circle.

19 3/4" x 15 1/4" col. reproduction [by offset of an oil canvas, 24" x 31"]

Original painting in the Port-of-Spain, National Museum and Art Gallery.

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Water jar sellers

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Vendors transporting large and small water jars atop their heads for selling.

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Band of the Jaw-Bone John-Canoe

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Lithograph showing three members of a John-Canoe band, assisted by a young boy. Two of the men are playing the Gumbay and Dundun drums and the man on the left is playing a rasp. They are being assisted by a young boy.

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Portrait of a little boy

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A photograph or a little boy grinning.

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Prise de Saint-Christophe. Le Marquis de Bouille - 12 Fevrier, 1782

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8 3/4" x 12 1/2". engraving.

P463. Proof copy, lacks sky and cloud details. Engraved by A. Giboy.

P464. Final state with same view as P463 but different artists. Martinet, del. & J. Adam, sculp.

Note: Giboy, Martinet & Adam flourished…

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Roger Mais by J. Ferguson

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Painting of Roger Mais, Jamaican novelist, playwright and poet.

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Song of the Kingston scavenger. 'Flow on thou shining river'

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Pencil drawing of "Kingston scavenger" on Rose Mary Lane, Kingston.

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