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"Everything goes in the construction of these dwellings - from rusty sheets of zinc for roofing, bamboo-lattices and flattened barrel sides -a t the York Town squatter settlements - unit for human occupation. This the Housing Ministry recognises, and…

Print depicting a Barbadian mulatto woman buying produce from two female vendors. One of the vendors is fully clad and sitting on a basket with another basket of fruits/vegetables before her. The second woman is standing topless with a basket of…

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.

Villagers merry making in the island of St. Vincent, with dancers and musicians. In the background is the landscape with huts on a hill.

A West Indian woman, wearing a checkered shawl and headwrap, holds out a dish with flowers towards two women. The woman wearing a broad rimmed hat has taken one of the flowers to smell. A boy, seated at the entrance of a nearby building, is watching…

Vendors at a market in St. Vincent attempting to sell pumpkin and other market goods.

"Free natives of Dominica. This plate is dedicated to Sir Wm. Young, Bart. by his most obliged and devoted servt."

Children line up to have a drink of water from a standpipe.

"Dr. Milvo Ramirez (right) head of the Cuban medical team at the Savanna-la-mar Hospital, performing a delicate operation at the hospital recently. Dr. Ramirez was Consultant General Surgeon in charge of a hospital in Havana before he came to…