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Tit bits in the West Indies

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Three cartoons illustrating the lustful desires planters had toward black women, during slavery, in the West Indies.

"XXVII"

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People, dressed in formal attire, gather outside a two-storey dwelling for an event.

Jamaica Court interior

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Jamaican canes/walking sticks, hats, pimento wood, photographs and postcards on display.

The West Indian Court, Crystal Palace Colonial Exhibition, 1905

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Jamaican exhibition at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, held at Crystal Palace in the summer of 1905.

The Trinity Church in Kingston, Jamaica

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Scene outside the Trinity Church in Kingston, Jamaica during the great Kingston fire of 1843. Some persons are fleeing the scene while others congregate outside the burning church, watching as men try to extinguish the flames.

Thomas Wilson, crop agronomist at the Coconut Industry Board

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Crop agronomist at the Coconut Industry Board, Mr. Thomas Wilson (holding coconut tree seedling), addressing a group of persons on a coconut farm.