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Beauty queens

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Contestants numbers 16, 14, 12, 10 and 8 on stage during beauty contest.

Beauty Queens from Westmoreland

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"Contestants this year for the Miss Westmoreland title, continued their round of social engagements on June 23, with an appearance at a bathing suit parade at the Frome Sports Club, near Savanna-La-Mar. The contestants won warm applause from the…

Beckford Street

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"The intersection of Beckford Street and Princess Street in downtown Kingston. Old car parts, bed springs and other articles form the 'back-drop' of a pool of filth on Beckford Street and the pungent stream of water runs from the manhole at the…

Beckford, Ballard

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Print of Ballard Beckford, proprietor of the Whitehall and Frontier estates. He was also the eldest son of Thomas Beckford and was appointed the first Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons in Jamaica in 1742. In the portrait, Ballard is seated on a…

Beckford, Barbara

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Barbara Beckford, former hockey player from Wolmer's High School for Girls.

Bed-stock for intoxication

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Enslaved Africans with their feet clamped between a bed-stock as punishment for being intoxicated.

Bed-stocks for intoxication

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Enslaved Africans from Trinidad with their feet clamped between bed-stocks as punishment for being intoxicated.

Bedford truck transporting electrical fixtures

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"This Bedford truck laden with electrical fixtures owned by Y.P. Seaton and Associates Co. Ltd. (Electrical Contractors) of 52c Molynes Road, Kingston 10, was being driven by Clarence Farquharson of a Kingston address, and overturned when a defective…