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250 x 200 mm. Daily News photograph by Charles Kinkead.

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Letter written by the Governor of Jamaica, Sir Arthur Richards, to the West Indies Department of the Colonial Office reporting upon a tour undertaken during April and May 1939 (24 sheets).

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238 x 186 mm. A view looking out over the town.

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153 x 103 mm. Showing Jamaicans standing beside the line, with a train approaching in the distance. Photograph by Dr. Sinclair.

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189 x 117 mm. A view showing tree ferns and other jungle vegetation. See Y3073D/23 for another print in better condition.

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180 x 115 mm. A view showing a tree-fern against a mountain background.

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188 x 117 mm.

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219 x 110 mm. A view showing a pile of labelled fruits and vegetables.

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228 x 177 mm. A view looking across fields towards a small town (possibly Mandeville: compare the Court House seen at the left of this picture with plate 12) with mountains in the distance.

Scope and Contents A 16mm, black-and-white cinefilm, with sound, showing newsreel footage of the various ceremonies laid on for the installation of the new Chancellor as detailed below (times are approximate). Princess Alice was officially installed as Chancellor on 16 February 1950 after accepting the office on 10 December 1948.0 - 13sec. [Leader].13 - 24sec. Caption reading ‘Colonial Film Unit’.24 - 31sec. Caption reading ‘Colonial Cinemagazine 29’.31 - 37sec. Caption reading...

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A series of photographs of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. The University College of the West Indies was founded at Mona, Jamaica, in 1948 and became a University in 1962.

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A series of photographs and a memorandum all related to the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. The University College of the West Indies was founded at Mona, Jamaica, in 1948 and became a University in 1962. Some photographs in this collection link up with others from the same source and this is indicated in the catalogue by references to the IUC set.

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244 x 185 mm. A view looking across an open grassed space with the cotton tree seen in Y3073D/24 at the left of the picture and garrison buildings in the background. The West India Regiment was stationed here until its disbandment in 1926.

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187 x 120 mm. A view showing the grounds and garrison buildings at Up Park Camp with a soldier of the West India Regiment in the foreground.

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250 x 200 mm.

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227 x 149 mm. A view looking past dry-stone walls towards cultivated fields with estate buildings and mountains in the distance.

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239 x 192 mm. A view looking along a path in the garden lined with plants in barrels with an unidentified figure standing on the lawn beyond the path. According to the caption the barrels contain Jaggery Palm, American Aloe, Arancaria and Asiatic Aloe.

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229 x 181 mm. A view showing a corner of the Parade Gardens at the left of the print with the churches and houses of Kingston beyond and mountains in the distance.

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240 x 179 mm. A view showing a mixed European and Jamaican band posing for the camera in the Parade Garden Grounds. In the background stands the Coke Methodist Church.

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242 x 182 mm. A view looking across a small valley towards the plantation bungalows. In the foreground are allotments of young plants protected by wooden fencing.

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240 x 180 mm. An indistinct view taken from Waraka on Long Mountain looking over the Liguanea Plain.

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211 x 132 mm. A view looking across the green at Mandeville with the Court House towards the left of the print.

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234 x 180 mm. A view showing the garrison and residential quarters, built on a steep hillside in the mountains behind Kingston.

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239 x 178 mm. A view looking over the rooftops of Port Royal, situated on the western extremity of the Palisadoes, with the entrance to Kingston Harbour in the background. In the foreground is an open square with a church at the farther end. ‘Back Yard’ is also in the foreground of the print.

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240 x 179 mm. A view looking up a densely vegetated ravine along which a small river runs, with the coffee works set on a ridge above the stream.