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Street vendors
Women street vendors selling produce along the side of the road. Some have found shelter under their umbrellas, trees and broad rimmed hats. A police officer is standing nearby.
Tags: Food vendors; Hats; Police - Jamaica; Umbrellas; Women
The West India flower girl
A West Indian woman, wearing a checkered shawl and headwrap, holds out a dish with flowers towards two women. The woman wearing a broad rimmed hat has taken one of the flowers to smell. A boy, seated at the entrance of a nearby building, is watching…
Tags: Flowers; Headgear; West Indians; Women; Women's clothing
Ivy Baxter addressing group
Ivy Baxter, Jamaican dance pioneer, addressing a group of women.
Home sweet home, Jamaica
Mother and child sitting outside their hut. It is made of wattle and daub walls and thatched roof and has a thatched roof.
Bellevue Hospital sleeping woman
"Sleep of the mad…This woman is caught sleeping in the walkway. Her pants have been destroyed and there is no replacement."
Yvette Hussey
"Yvette Hussey in her role as make up artist, doing a job on Calvin Lockhart."
Leslie Boxer
"Leslie Boxer 2nd in Miss Jamaica Body Beautiful Contest 1978."
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Hussay Festival

Photograph depicting a large gathering in Westmoreland, in celebration of the Hussay, a traditional East Indian religious festival.