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Wesleyan Chapel

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Wreckage at the Wesleyan Chapel (looking west) in Kingston, showing damage to both gables. Two men are standing in the foreground.

Wrecked dwelling house, Kingston (after earthquake 1907)

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Damage, caused by the 1907 earthquake, to the front of a house in Kingston.

Warehouse near market made roofless after earthquake

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Rubble of zinc, bricks and other material, on the site of a flattened warehouse near the Victoria Market after the 1907 earthquake.

A wholesale and retail store, known all over Jamaica as McNish Ltd.

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The ruined wholesale and retail store, McNish Ltd., after the 1907 earthquake.

Camps - Swallowfield, after earthquake

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Demolished buildings at the Swallowfield military camp in Kingston, Jamaica, by the 1907 earthquake. Several tents have been erected on the grounds.

Men's Quarters, Camp

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The men's quarters at the campgrounds in Kingston, Jamaica after the 1907.

Camp Swallowfield

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Sunken buildings, tilted structures, uplifted railway lines and destruction to other structures at the Swallowfield Camp in Kingston, after the passing of the earthquake in 1907.