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A view of the Hanover Parish Church. The Church was built in the year 1725 - two years after the parish of Hanover came in to being in the year 1723. Jamaica Archives' records reveal that the Church had its first baptism in 1725, first burial in…

Engine 54, puffing large clouds of smoke, makes it way on its last run through May Pen, Clarendon - January 13, 1968.

Photograph of two girls of East Indian descent preparing rice for cooking.

Photograph of East Indian indentured labourers in rice fields from the Valdez collection, circa 1890 . [Original title on photograph is: Coolies preparing rice - Jamaica]

Workers threshing grain in Clarendon rice field [date unknown]

Four men are in conversation in the middle of the road in Porus, Manchester. Wooden buildings are on both sides of the road, a horse-drawn carriage is parked along the dirt road.

Image showing waterfalls cascading through mountains, on the way to Newcastle, St. Andrew

A herd of cattle grazing on the Goschen Racecourse, St. Elizabeth. On the property are several large trees with a vast mountain in the background.

Four women and a child carrying buckets of water on their heads in Gordon Town, a rural village in Jamaica. Houses and plants are on both sides of the road, stone wall on left side of road.

Two black men wearing hats
two black women carrying baskets are standing in front of a wooden framed upstairs house in Bog Walk Village, St. Catherine, Jamaica. Other wooden framed buildings are close to the house.