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The West Indian Court, Crystal Palace Colonial Exhibition, 1905

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Jamaican exhibition at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, held at Crystal Palace in the summer of 1905.

Jamaica Court interior

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Jamaican canes/walking sticks, hats, pimento wood, photographs and postcards on display.

"XXVII"

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

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.

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."