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Procession to the healing stream of August Town

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A large crowd gathering at the Hope River, which became known to Bedwardites as the 'healing stream'. Some are waiting to be dipped in the river to receive their healing.

Prof. Aubrey S. Phillips giving the main address

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"Prof. Aubrey S. Phillips [centre], Dean of the Faculty of Education, UWI, giving the main address at Mico Old Students' Association function to honour two of its members, Mrs. R. Shirley [left] Principal of the school, and Mr. E.H. Cousins, former…

Prof. Barry Chevannes and Governor General General Sir Howard Cooke unveiling plaque

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Governor General Sir Howard Cooke and Professor Barry Chevannes unveiling the slavery abolition plaque at the Old King's House portico, where British Colonial Governor, Lionel Cooke, had declared the abolition of slavery in Jamaica.

Prof. Manfred Perlitz

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German Professor, Manfred Perlitz, giving a lecture.

Prof. Rex Nettleford

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Photograph of Rex Nettleford in a Calicashirt. He was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research University in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Professor Aitchison and Terry Brown

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"Professor Aitchison watches university systems analyst Terry Brown at the keyboard of the talking typewriter. The unit housing the speech synthesizer is at the back of the machine and the 'voice' is transmitted to the operator through a headset or a…

Professor Edward Baugh

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Portrait of Jamaican poet and author, Professor Edward Baugh.

Professor Efrain Paesky, chief of the OAS' Technical Unit on Music and Professor Rex Nettleford

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"Professor Efrain Paesky, Chief of the OAS' Technical Unit of Music, and Professor Rex Nettleford, Artistic Director of the NDTC, in the control booth at the recent session in Kingston at which the NDTC singers recorded 19 Caribbean folk songs for an…

Professor Errol Hill

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Professor Errol Hill, playwright, actor and scholar, going through a book while sitting at a desk.