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Sleeping Quarters for Negroes
Labor Quarters

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Sleeping quarters for negroes (top) and quarters for other labourers (bottom).

The Pay Car at Culebra, January, 1908

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Workers of the Panama Canal line up to enter the Pay Car (a railroad car) to collect their wages (1908).

Camp Bierd - The West Indian Section of Cristobol

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Men who work on the contruction site of the Panama Canal take a break from work at Camp Bierd - The West Indian Section of Cristobaol. Both sides of the road are lined with living quarters.

Chester Castle Post Office, Hanover

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The Chester Castle Post Office in the parish of Hanover.

Ramble Post Office - Hanover

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The front view of the Ramble Post Office in Hanover.

Mahoe Postal Agency - Opened by the Minister of local government, 1966

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A very small wooden building with the sign 'Mahoe Postal Agency' affixed to it.

Norman Manley and Acting Indian High Commission in the BWI, Sankara Pillai

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The Hon. Norman Manley, Chief Minister (2nd right) and the Hon. Sankara Pillai, Acting Indian Commissioner in the BWI (right) with a group of persons at buffet supper hosted by the East Indian Progressive Society.

Registration of voters

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Curious children crowd the doorway of the Electoral Registration Mobile Unit while the adults wait in line to be registered for voting.

Banners carried by PNP demonstrators, June 1968

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Demonstrators displaying placards during a demonstration in June 1968.