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Artefact at IOJ

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Teapot artefact used to serve tea during colonial times at the Institute of Jamaica.

Ebony fashion fair

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High fashion at the Ebony fashion fair.

Fashionable work clothes for the office

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Two female models showcasing attire appropriate for an office environment.

Luxury velvet-look fabric

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"The luxury, velvet-look fabric with all the washable, spin-dry, non-crush properties of a man-made fabric."

Tit bits in the West Indies

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Three cartoons illustrating the lustful desires planters had toward black women, during slavery, in the West Indies.

"XXVII"

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People, dressed in formal attire, gather outside a two-storey dwelling for an event.

Unveiling of the cenotaph, Church Street, 1923

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Scores of citizens and military personnel gather for the official ceremony for the unveiling of the World War Cenotaph on Church Street in Downtown, Kingston, held on Armistice Day on November 11, 1923. It was erected for Jamaican men who lost their…