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Tit bits in the West Indies
Three cartoons illustrating the lustful desires planters had toward black women, during slavery, in the West Indies.
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People, dressed in formal attire, gather outside a two-storey dwelling for an event.
Tags: Clothing and dress; Dwellings
W.A. Domingo speaking for the affirmation in a debate between himself and Richard B. Moore
W.A. Domingo, Richard B. Moore and other men at a debate.
Unveiling of the cenotaph, Church Street, 1923
Scores of citizens and military personnel gather for the official ceremony for the unveiling of the World War Cenotaph on Church Street in Downtown, Kingston, held on Armistice Day on November 11, 1923. It was erected for Jamaican men who lost their…
Trinidad from the Gulf of Paria
A view of the landscape and buildings in a town in Trinidad, as seen from the Gulf of Paria. Boats, varying in size, are at sea.
Trafalgar Park House (interior)
Inside the Trafalgar Park house showing the sitting area.
Town Hall, Portsmouth
Scene outside the Portsmouth Town Hall located in Portsmouth, England.
Jamaica Court interior
Jamaican canes/walking sticks, hats, pimento wood, photographs and postcards on display.
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
The West Indian Court, Crystal Palace Colonial Exhibition, 1905
Jamaican exhibition at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, held at Crystal Palace in the summer of 1905.
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Red Hills Wesleyan Church, Kingston, before the earthquake

Front view of the Wesleyan church in Red Hills before the devastating 1907 earthquake. Three female members of the congregation are standing in the…