Jamaica (nation)
Found in 376 Collections and/or Records:
Judging in a cooking contest, 1945
Jungle near Irish Town, Port Royal Mountains, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
245 x 185 mm. A view looking down on a country road which winds along a jungle valley near Irish Town, with a red plum tree in the foreground.
[King Street, Kingston], 1900 - 1910
230 x 181 mm. A view from the top floor of a building looking along King Street with mountains in the distance.
[King Street, Kingston], 1900 - 1910
229 x 180 mm. A view from the harbour looking along King Street towards the mountains in the distance. The street itself is crowded with promenading Jamaicans, while in the foreground stands the Metcalfe Statue with the Victoria Market to the right.
King Street, Kingston, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
184 x 123 mm. A view looking south along King Street towards the harbour from the tower and the parish church. A similar view to Y3073D/16 but with some new building work in the foreground on both sides of the street.
King's House, 1908 - 1910
232 x 178 mm. A view from the lawn showing the back of the new King's House in St. Andrew on the Liguanea Plain (a different building to that in Spanish Town seen in plate 9). The building, designed by Sir Charles Nicholson after the former Kings House, Bishop's Lodge, had been destroyed in the earthquake of 1907. It is constructed from reinforced concrete and comprises three floors with rooms arranged around an open patio.
King’s House, Governor’s Residence, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
238 x 175 mm. A view looking across the lawn towards the Governor’s Residence, a two storey building with louvred windows. The building was destroyed in the earthquake of 1907 and replaced by the building designed by Sir Charles Nicholson (see Y3073B/15).
King’s House, Jamaica. The residence of the Governor., 1879 - 1886
241 x 187 mm.
King’s House, St Andrews, 1887
178 x 228 mm.
[Kingston Harbour], 1900 - 1910
230 x 177 mm. A view from the harbour showing steamers moored at the wharves on the Kingston dockside, with mountains in the distance.
Kingston, Jamaica, 1880 - 1889
215x132mm. View from the top of the Victoria Market looking north along King Street towards the Victoria Gardens. The tower and spire of the Parish Church can be seen in the distance. A line of horse-drawn trams can be seen in the middle ground.
Lady Margaret Lascelles, Hon. Edward Lascelles, Lady Harewood in front, Kings House, Jamaica, 1900 - 1910
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.
Lewis B. Clemens, 1912
75 x 100 mm. Showing Clemens dressed in a white suit and pith helmet, standing with arms folded in front of a palm tree.
Linstead Market, 1880 - 1889
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.
Logwood scows, Milk River, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
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.
Logwood Yard, Vere, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
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.
Lucea, 1882
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).
Mandeville, 1880 - 1889
208 x 132 mm. A view showing an open grassy square in Mandeville with a crowd of Jamaicans in the background (event unidentified).
Many of Jamaica's main roadways are inadequate for the volume of vehicular traffic which they must handle. As a result of this the Government has had to undertake an extensive road improvement programme, 1959 - 1982
250 x 200 mm. Jamaica Information Service photograph.
Market Place, St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, 1879 - 1886
196 x 113 mm. A view showing a busy, though rather blurred, scene in the St Ann’s market place.
Market Women, 1900 - 1910
229 x 180 mm. Showing a group of Jamaican women and a donkey posing by the roadside with baskets of produce on their heads.
Members of 4-H Clubs who took part in the Candle Lighting Ceremony on the occasion of the Jubilee Celebration of the Jamaica Agricultural Society in 1945, 1945
Photograph most likely taken in front of the Buxton House clock tower at Mico College in the parish of Saint Andrew.
Members of a Health Project giving a First Aid Demonstration, 1940 - 1949
Members of Cattle Project showing their animals in Achievement Day, 1945
Memorandum on books in Jamaica, 1937
'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.