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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…
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.
The Up Park Camp, Kingston, Ja.
Aerial view of the barracks, quarters and other buildings on the Up Park Camp grounds in Kingston, with a view of Long Mountain, Port Royal Mountains and St. Catherine's Peak.
The Trinity Church in Kingston, Jamaica
Scene outside the Trinity Church in Kingston, Jamaica during the great Kingston fire of 1843. Some persons are fleeing the scene while others congregate outside the burning church, watching as men try to extinguish the flames.
Thomas Wilson, crop agronomist at the Coconut Industry Board
Crop agronomist at the Coconut Industry Board, Mr. Thomas Wilson (holding coconut tree seedling), addressing a group of persons on a coconut farm.
These destitute women will spend their last days in a Jamaica poor house
Jamaican women living a poor house having a meal.
Three W.I. statesmen N.W. Manley, Sir Alexander Bustamante and Eric Williams
Sir Alexander Bustamante greets Eric Williams - Trinidad and Tobago's former Prime Minister, as Norman Washington Manley looks on.
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Louise Bennett
Miss Lou wearing an 18th century style dress and feathered hat. She is holding a parasol.