Jamaica (nation)
Found in 404 Collections and/or Records:
[3F Instructional Course, 1940s. Group portrait], 1940 - 1949
3F Instructional Course. A discussion group in session, 1940 - 1949
3F Instructional Course. Demonstration of contouring, 1940 - 1949
3F Instructional Course. General discussion, 1940 - 1949
3F Instructional Course. Members arriving to enrol, 1940 - 1949
4-H Club girls demonstrate - 'How to lay a table', 1940 - 1949
[A banyan tree, Jamaica], 1895 - 1913
212 x 136 mm. A view showing the main trunk of a banyan tree with a wooden seat at its base. A carving on the trunk of the tree is dated 1895.
A coco-nut grove, Rae Town, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
233 x 196 mm. A view looking between coconut palms towards the small settlement lying at the edge of a curving beach.
A Garden in Jamaica, 1912
103 x 77 mm. Showing a lily pond and palm trees in a Jamaican garden.
A gold mine in W.S. Columbia [?], 1879 - 1886
234 x 175 mm. A view showing a group of Jamaicans standing in and beside a small river with residential buildings in the background. A pencilled caption, 'China Bog Walk', makes more sense than the main caption. Morris may have been meaning to place a different print on this page.
A group of visitors tour the offices of the Jamaica International Telecommunications Ltd. (Jamintel), 1959 - 1982
250 x 200 mm. Jamaica Information Service photograph by Ted Cunningham.
A member of the Health Group gives a First Aid Demonstration on Achievement Day - Spaldings, 1945
A tree of Araucaria Excelsa growing in the St Andrews Mts, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
240 x 178 mm. A view showing the tree in the foreground with mountains beyond and the sea in the distance.
A view near Port Maria, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
184 x 114 mm. A view (from the seashore) looking towards a residential house, with mountains beyond.
A view of Government Cinchona Plantation, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
188 x 249 mm. A view along a path in the plantation, with a bearded man standing beside a cinchona tree. The caption continues: ‘The trees shown are Cinchona officinalis, chiefly self-sown seedlings (Newhaven Gap). In the foreground is Mr Nock, the Superintendent’.
After extensive research, the Malayan Dwarf was found to be highly resistant to the lethal yellowing disease, hence its importance to the Jamaican coconut industry as a replacement for the Jamaica Tall, 1959 - 1982
250 x 200 mm. Daily News photograph by Charles Kinkead.
[?] Alphe Infants' School, 1900 - 1910
139 x 88 mm. A postcard (original photograph) showing a school classroom with children sitting at their desks and nuns standing at the front of the room.
Army uniforms of the Empire and Commonwealth, 1860s-1940s
A collection of loose prints of various sizes, printed reproductions and other ephemera relating to the uniforms of overseas military units. The prints are by various photographers. The file also includes a photocopy copy of Tylden's Royal Commonwealth Society Library Talk - 'The history of the overseas armed forces' (10 April 1960).
Articles from 'The Field'
Articles Vol. 4:, 1959 - 2011
Back view of Kingston Harbour, 1880 - 1889
220x133mm. View looking over the rooftops of Kingston towards the harbour. The street running south towards the harbour, with the London Hotel in the foreground, is unidentified (?possibly East Street).
Banana field, Morant, 1880 - 1889
219 x 134 mm. A view looking across a tightly planted field of banana plants in the Morant district of eastern Jamaica.
Banana field Morant, 1880 - 1889
218 x 132 mm. A view showing a line of female labourers carrying a bunch of bananas on their heads with piles in the foreground awaiting collection. A rather blurred photograph.
Banana fields, Morant, Jamaica, 1880 - 1889
216x133mm. Duplicate of Y307A/24, looking across a large banana plantation in the Morant District of eastern Jamaica.
[Banana plantation, Jamaica], 1879 - 1913
193 x 243 mm. A view showing rows of tall banana plants, with a Jamaican labourer standing in the foreground.