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This is a photograph of a woman, wife of Tom Ellis in a long ruffled dress. She has long plaited hair. Some of her hair is wrapped around her head and the rest is extended to one side of her shoulder.

The picture shows a couple standing beside each other. The lady is wearing a gown while the man is attired in a jacket suit and is holding a hat in his hand.

The image shows a man named Mr. Aguilar standing in jacket suit and neck tie leaning against a column. The jacket is very long probably Georgian style.

Two images show a gathering at the UNIA annual convention in 1924. In one of the images, flags are hanging from a damaged (burnt) looking building. In the other picture, children are standing among a gathering. This building is partially burnt. In…

The picture shows six persons, including one female, in hats standing on the steps of the building that houses the offices of the Universal Negro Improvement Association Incorporation; the African Communities League Incorporation; and the Negro…

This is a portrait of Rev. Hugh Braham Sherlock. He was born in Portland, Jamaica on March 21, 1905.

This is a picture of a smiling Leila James Tomlinson sitting at a wooden table in a long floral dress. She is a university-educated Jamaican woman and the first Jamaican woman to win a scholarship to study overseas in the UK. A man is aslo seen…

Portrait of Osmond Flairclough. He was instrumental in forming the People's National Party (PNP) in September 1938. He was a banker before starting the newspaper called The Public Opinion.

Portrait of David Thom McWhinney Girvan, popularly known as D.T.M Girvan, General Manager of Jamaica Welfare (1943) Ltd., dressed in suit and tie. He is smiling and looking straight into the camera. Mr. Girvan was an economist. He was born in 1904…

Photograph of Rex Nettleford in a Calicashirt. He was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research University in the Commonwealth Caribbean.