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General view of the Old Iron Bridge

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A view of the Old Iron Bridge in Spanish Town, St. Catherine.

Cathedral, Spanish Town

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A man sits atop a barrel on a horse-drawn cart as it drives towards the Spanish Town Cathedral in St. Catherine. Two other men are seen along the roadway.

Air Mail arrives in the Island

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Airport workers unload bags of air mail for Jamaica from an airplane while the pilots observe the activity.

Surface mail arrives in the Island

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Bags containing surface mail is lowered from a ship as men below anxiously wait with outstretched arms to collect them.

A mail delivery on the Mona Housing Estate near Kingston Jamaica, 1961

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A postman on bicycle, attired in uniform including bowler hat, delivers mail to a man at his gate at the Mona Housing Estate, near Kingston, 1961.

Postmen at G.P.O.

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Postmen attire in jackets and ties and bowler hats form a queue with thier bicycles, in front of the General Post Office, Downtown, Kingston, prior to embarking on their delivery of the mail.

Sorting the mail G.P.O.

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Employees sort mail at the General Post Office, Kingston, Jamaica.

Mr. R.H. Fletcher, Post Master of Jamaica plus Captain Holland with 1st Arrival to Cuba, Dec 10, 1930

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Reginald Honan Fletcher, Post Master of Jamaica, (with bowler hat in hand), Captain Holland and unidentified man stand with bag of Jamaica's first dispatch of air mail to Cuba, Dec 10, 1930.

The Governor, Sir Edward Stubbs, handing Captain Holland the 1st Airmail bag for Santiago de Cuba on Dec 10, 1930

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Sir Edward Stubbs, Governor, hands Captin Holland the first airmail bag for Santiago de Cuba on Dec. 10, 1930.

The plane that carried the first air mail from Jamaica

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Officials gather to witness the departure of the airplane that carried the first batch of air mails from Jamaica.