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80 x 80 mm. Probably amateur snapshot. Lady Harewood was Florence, wife of the 5th Earl of Harewood. Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Lascelles (1887-1935) of the Rifle Brigade was her second son and Lady Margaret her only daughter. As the latter was married in October 1906 the photograph was presumably taken before that date.

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Photographs by various photographers and three other items. They relate to the career of James Alexander Swettenham, who, after serving in Ceylon and Cyprus, became Colonial Secretary in Singapore in 1895. He was Governor of British Guyana 1901-1904 and of Jamaica 1904-1907. His period in Singapore coincided with the service in Malaya of his more famous brother, Sir Frank Swettenham. Their father was James Oldham Swettenham, Solicitor of Belper.

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75 x 100 mm. Showing Clemens dressed in a white suit and pith helmet, standing with arms folded in front of a palm tree.

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236 x 172 mm. A view looking along an unsurfaced road which runs through the small town of Linstead, with small wooden cabins and houses on either side of the road, and Jamaicans standing in the street watching the photographer. Linstead is situated in the centre of the island north-west of Kingston.

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242 x 188 mm. A view showing a boat loaded with wood approaching a landing place on the Milk River. At the landing point another boat is moored, with a few Jamaicans standing in front of a large pile of logwood.

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228 x 176 mm. A view showing a very large quantity of logwood piled in a timber yard with a European standing in the foreground and a gang of Jamaican labourers in the background.

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216 x 133 mm. A view looking down on the town and bay of Lucea which lies 25 miles west of Montego Bay. Photograph taken c. 1882 (see Y3073/D39).

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208 x 132 mm. A view showing an open grassy square in Mandeville with a crowd of Jamaicans in the background (event unidentified).

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250 x 200 mm. Jamaica Information Service photograph.

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196 x 113 mm. A view showing a busy, though rather blurred, scene in the St Ann’s market place.

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229 x 180 mm. Showing a group of Jamaican women and a donkey posing by the roadside with baskets of produce on their heads.

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Photograph most likely taken in front of the Buxton House clock tower at Mico College in the parish of Saint Andrew.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...

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'Memorandum concerning circumstances in which books are read and sold in Jamaica and containing proposals for a popular series of classical books serviceable to the whole of the British West Indies', 44 pages.

Scope and Contents 230 x 179 mm. A view looking down on the military emplacements perched on the side of a steep hill: 'High, High, High High up in the hills behind the capital, appearing as white specks on the mountain side, are the military cantonments of Newcastle, hanging in terraces like a monastery in Tibet... Perched at a height of four thousand feet above the level of the sea, these barracks were erected by Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor from 1839 to 1841, for the benefit of the white troops, which...

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A series of photographs of inter-university events. Photographer unknown.

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370 x 300 mm.

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211 x 132 mm. A view looking down on the town and bay from the hills, with woodland in the foreground.

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250 x 200 mm.

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183 x 119 mm. A view from behind the town looking seawards.

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183 x 118 mm. A view looking over the houses and streets of Montego Bay with the parish church in the background at the left of the print and mountains in the distance.

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229 x 291 mm (overall), 101 x 139 mm (image). Halftone print. Studio name printed as part of image, print inscribed by hand in ink, au recto, below image. Photograph is taken from an elevated location and shows treetops and rooftops at the coast. Open water, a ship and land are visible in the background.

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238 x 178 mm. A view looking over the town, with the bay at the right of the photograph.

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178 x 228 mm.