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Maxfield Park Children's Home
"Fine Gesture: Maxfield Park Children's Home Matron, Mrs. O'Conner Johnson, receiving a cheque for $200 from Flour Mills and Allied Industry Worker's Chief Delegate, Henry Brown, yesterday afternoon. The donation came from the workers' back pay,…
Filthy conditions outside the St. Patrick place of safety in Rae Town
"Is this what we want for our kids in the international year of the child? The 38 boys being housed at the St. Patrick's Place of Safety in Rae Town have to suffer daily from the stench, mosquito bites and flies are bred by this stagnant pool that…
Recreation Centre Swift-Purcell Home for Boys, Highgate, St. Mary
View of a section of the Swift-Purcell Boys' Home located in Highgate, St. Mary.
Trade Centre, Swift Purcell Home for Boys - Highgate, St. Mary
One of the buildings located on the Swift Purcell Home for Boys in Highgate, St. Mary.
Swift Purcell Home for Boys - Highgate
View of the Swift Purcell Home for orphaned boys, located in Highgate, St. Mary and established in the early 1900s by Mama Swift and Mr. A. Purcell of the Quakers/Society of Friends.
Lyndale Home for Girls, Highgate
A section of the two-storey building of the Lyndale Home for Girls, established by the Friends' Union in Jamaica. The Home officially opened in January 1922 and was formerly known from 1904 as the Happy Grove Industrial School for East Indian Girls.
Lyndale Home for Girls - Highgate
A view of the Lyndale Home for Girls, established by the Friends' Union in Jamaica. The Home officially opened in January 1922 and was formerly known from 1904 as the Happy Grove Industrial School for East Indian Girls.
The St. Anthony's Children's Home operated by the Roman Catholic Church
Children in the front yard of the St. Anthony's Children's Home, located in Jack's Hill, St. Andrew.
Mannings Children's Home, Southfield, St. Elizabeth
Front view of the Mannings Boys' Home in Southfield, St. Elizabeth.
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Chinese Benevolent Society float, Independence Day Parade
A large crowd surrounds the Chinese Benevolent Society float during the Independence Day Parade.