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Downtown Kingston (Victoria Avenue)

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A view of a section of Victoria Avenue with a Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus driving past the Machado building located at the corner of Victoria Avenue and Lower South Camp Road in Kingston, Jamaica.

Captain Bartholomew Roberts, The Cavalier Pirate

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A full-length portrait of Captain Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts, a Welsh pirate described as one of the most successful pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy. In this drawing he is standing with a sword in hand. A ship, persons in a boat and…

Capt. Bartholomew Roberts with his two ships - The Royal Fortune and The Ranger

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Captain Bartholomew Roberts with two ship, viz. the Royal Fortune and Ranger, takes a sail in Whydah Road on the coast of Guiney, January 11th, 1721/2.

Books being handed over to the G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sports

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Copies of books being handed over to the GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports in Spanish Town, St. Catherine. At the handing over event is Sir Clifford Campbell, former Governor General of Jamaica.

Bert Rose

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Bert Rose, dancer and choreographer and a founding member of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC).

Behind Gleaner Office building looking at the site of the former Princess Street

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A bare open lot behind the Gleaner Company, looking towards a street formerly known as Princess Street.

Arnold Road (Four Ball's Gate) before 1934

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A view of the Four Balls Gate, also known as Cannon Ball gate, located at the entrance of the military grounds across Arnold Road. Cannons are seen at the top of the gate's stone walls.

Aerial view of the new Rose Hall Inter-continental Hotel

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An aerial view of the newly constructed Rose Hall Intercontinental Hotel (now Hilton Rose Hall) in Montego Bay, St. James.