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Crowd consisting of men and women walking up Duke Street.

Ship docked at Kingston Waterfront. Police standing on deck while labourers brought in from the hinterland unload the 'Jamaica Planter'. Scene also includes bales lying around and buckets stacked.

Photograph showing policeman seemingly in discussion with two men in lumber yard of Leonard deCordova during strike. Buildings and parked trucks in background.

Men and women standing together looking defiantly ahead during the labour unrest of 1938. Section of building in background.

Famous Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation strike in 1964, when strikers sat down in the Half-Way Tree square blocking traffic. Vehicular traffic stopped to a halt, while a crowd of curious onlookers supported the strikers.

People including children form a queue with containers in hand, waiting to purchase kerosene oil.

Portrait of author Jeanne Wilson.

Photograph of V. S. Reid, Jamaican Novelist, sitting at his desk with his eyeglasses on his forehead. Two pens are in holders on the desk.

Portrait of Jean D'Costa, Jamaican author of children's books.

Portrait of Thomas MacDermot Jamaican poet, novelist and editor of the Jamaica Times, who also wrote under the pseudonym Tom Redcam.