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Sign at Bog Walk Gorge

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A sign on a stone wall at Bog Walk Gorge in St. Catherine showing the flood level on August 16, 1933 after heavy rains. The stone wall was completed in 1874.

Drax Hall water wheel

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Ruins of the water-wheel on the Drax Hall Estate that was founded in 1669 by William Drax. The water-wheel was used to provide power to turn on the sugar mill rollers in the sugar manufacturing process.

Patricia Burke

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Patricia Burke, bookkeeper.

Divass, Ja. 1933

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Painting done by a seaside in Jamaica in 1933.

Evelyn and Wolfgang Opitz, Hamburg dancing champs

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"Hamburg dancing champs to give TV lessons: Some 450,000 couples a year find their way to the altar or the registry office in the Federal Republic of Germany. An estimated 120,000 of them first make each other's acquaintance while out dancing...The…

Central Village, St. Catherine

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"Picking their way: Yesterday afternoon was one of the few occasions since last week on which Cleveland Butler and members of his household have left their home. The entrance to the yard in the Little Lane area of Central Village had been under many…