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Chief of the indigenous Black Caribs of St. Vincent, Chatoyer, with his two wives. One of the wives is walking with a load on her back while the other is standing by Chatoyer smoking tobacco with a sword in one hand.

Four West Indian washerwomen - one a mulatta - washing in the river. A child is among the women who are covered from the waist down in cloths and wearing wraps on their heads.

Portrait of Marcus Garvey's godfather, Mr. Borrowes, wearing a hat, jacket and tie.

Front view of the Moneague Hotel in St. Ann, Jamaica.

Tents erected at a refugee camp on the grounds of Race Course (now National Heroes Park) after the massive earthquake on January 14, 1907.

Fallen brick and debris before the partially damaged Episcopal Church at Buff Bay, Portland.

Severe damage to part of a building at the Mico Training College (now Mico University College).

A view of destruction at the Myrtle Bank Hotel after the 1907 earthquake. Persons can be seen sitting on the curbs by the ruined structure, as others look on as men dig through debris. Guards are standing by the entrance to prevent unauthorised…

Members of the Wesleyan faith congregate as top stone is being laid on the Ocho Rios Wesleyan Church. Three Wesleyan ministers and a worker on the site are standing on a scaffolding at the top of the structure.

A young girl walks by one of several zinc structures erected on a camp after the destructive earthquake of 1907.