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A banana and coconut plantation spanning both sides of a flooded road in Morant Bay, St. Thomas.

View of a section of King Street, Kingston showing commercial buildings with the British Flags atop, lining the street. A sign advertising millinery by R. Hanna
Sons is hanging from a store front.

Men at the wharf loading bags of surface mail on to a cart under the watchful eye of a supervisor.

Linesmen installing telegraph lines near the shoreline. A ship is docked at the pier.

Officials gather to witness the departure of the airplane that carried the first batch of air mails from Jamaica.

Sir Edward Stubbs, Governor, hands Captin Holland the first airmail bag for Santiago de Cuba on Dec. 10, 1930.

Reginald Honan Fletcher, Post Master of Jamaica, (with bowler hat in hand), Captain Holland and unidentified man stand with bag of Jamaica's first dispatch of air mail to Cuba, Dec 10, 1930.

Employees sort mail at the General Post Office, Kingston, Jamaica.

Postmen attire in jackets and ties and bowler hats form a queue with thier bicycles, in front of the General Post Office, Downtown, Kingston, prior to embarking on their delivery of the mail.

A postman on bicycle, attired in uniform including bowler hat, delivers mail to a man at his gate at the Mona Housing Estate, near Kingston, 1961.