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Bagging cotton, Library of Congress drawings collection

Bagging cotton, Library of Congress drawings collection

Two Jamaicans on raised structure, with tall bag for cotton.

Head of Negro man wearing cap, front and back view

Head of Negro man wearing cap, front and back view

Title transcribed from finding aid. Verso: Unidentified objects. Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The belle of the village, Jamaica

The belle of the village, Jamaica

68603 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1899 by C.H. Graves. On mount: Universal Photo Art Co. No. 4915.

Jamaicans Carrying Bananas - Breadfruit-Tree Overhead

Jamaicans Carrying Bananas - Breadfruit-Tree Overhead

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carrying water from mountain spring, Jamaica

Carrying water from mountain spring, Jamaica

D13641 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: Sold only by Griffith & Griffith.

Laborers in the stone quarries, Jamaica

Laborers in the stone quarries, Jamaica

D4978 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1900 by B.L. Singley. On mount: Keystone View Company. No. 9984.

Taking banana to the steamer; Banana tree with fruit.

Taking banana to the steamer; Banana tree with fruit.

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Kingston market, Jamaica - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

The Kingston market, Jamaica - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...

D4988 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1900 by B.L. Singley. On mount: Keystone View Company. No. 9994.

Duke St., Kingston, Jamaica - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Duke St., Kingston, Jamaica - stereoscopic view, public domain photorp...

2473 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: Sold only by Griffith & Griffith.

A load of bananas, Jamaica - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

A load of bananas, Jamaica - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpa...

3962 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: Sold only by Griffith & Griffith.

Jamaican agricultural laborers making victory sign at a Farm Security Administration camp

Jamaican agricultural laborers making victory sign at a Farm Security ...

U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 28696. Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[Jamaican agricultural laborers making victory sign at a Farm Security Administration camp]

[Jamaican agricultural laborers making victory sign at a Farm Security...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Jamaican agricultural laborers doing laundry in buckets at a Farm Security Administration camp]

[Jamaican agricultural laborers doing laundry in buckets at a Farm Sec...

U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 28687. Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[Jamaican agricultural laborers standing in a line at a Farm Security Administration camp]

[Jamaican agricultural laborers standing in a line at a Farm Security ...

U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 28697. Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[Jamaican agricultural laborers holding dishes of food at a Farm Security Administration camp]

[Jamaican agricultural laborers holding dishes of food at a Farm Secur...

U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 28690. Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Two Jamaicans help to unload a pallet of plastic tarpaulins from a C-130 Hercules aircraft of the 50th Tactical Airlift Squadron. The supplies were furnished by the U.S. to help Jamaica deal with the devastation caused by Hurricane Gilbert, which hit the

Two Jamaicans help to unload a pallet of plastic tarpaulins from a C-1...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kingston Country: Jamaica (JAM) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Matthew S. Gildow Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

William Berryman - [Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations]

William Berryman - [Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations]

Title transcribed from finding aid. Exhibited: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT and British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bris... More

William Berryman - [Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations]

William Berryman - [Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations]

Title transcribed from finding aid. Exhibited: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT and British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bris... More

William Berryman - [Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations]

William Berryman - [Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations]

Title transcribed from finding aid. Exhibited: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT and British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bris... More

A Grand Jamaica ball! or the Creolean hop a la muftee; as exhibeted in Spanish Town, British Cartoon Print

A Grand Jamaica ball! or the Creolean hop a la muftee; as exhibeted in...

Print shows British transplants dancing and being served by Jamaicans at a ball in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Includes six lines of verse warning women against loose living. "Graciously dedicated to the Honble. Mr... More

A Grand Jamaica ball! or the Creolean hop a la muftee; as exhibeted in Spanish Town, British Cartoon Print

A Grand Jamaica ball! or the Creolean hop a la muftee; as exhibeted in...

Print shows British transplants dancing and being served by Jamaicans at a ball in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Includes six lines of verse warning women against loose living. "Graciously dedicated to the Honble. Mr... More

Leonard Parkinson, a Captain of Maroons.
Negerdorp op Jamaïca. - A group of people walking down a dirt road

Negerdorp op Jamaïca. - A group of people walking down a dirt road

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The road to market : A typical highway of Jamaica, followed by natives going to Kingston.

The road to market : A typical highway of Jamaica, followed by natives...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Government buildings, Kingston : The special type of reenforced concrete buildings with broad arcades is well adapted to the tropics.

Government buildings, Kingston : The special type of reenforced concre...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Rafting on the Rio Grande, Port Antonio, Jamaica.

Rafting on the Rio Grande, Port Antonio, Jamaica.

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women on the way to market : "The woman or the donkey furnishes transportation".

Women on the way to market : "The woman or the donkey furnishes transp...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Marcus Garvey, Eminent Scholar - Public domain portrait print

Marcus Garvey, Eminent Scholar - Public domain portrait print

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Jack fruit. - A couple of men standing next to a tree

Jack fruit. - A couple of men standing next to a tree

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

A yard and its tenants : "The huts are inconceivably small, a trifle larger than billiard tables".

A yard and its tenants : "The huts are inconceivably small, a trifle l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Market women and their donkeys : The true industrial forces of Jamaica. Men are seldom seen as carriers or sellers of produce.

Market women and their donkeys : The true industrial forces of Jamaica...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Child Labor - Banana plantation.

Child Labor - Banana plantation.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The king's house, Spanish town.

The king's house, Spanish town.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

One way of carrying bananas : At the docks of the United Fruit Co., mechanical carriers, so perfected as not to bruise the fruit, have replaced the leisurely negro.

One way of carrying bananas : At the docks of the United Fruit Co., me...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Along the shore, Jamaica.

Along the shore, Jamaica.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

After a day's work on a banana plantation.

After a day's work on a banana plantation.

Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black... More

Banana carriers. - A group of women standing next to each other under a tree

Banana carriers. - A group of women standing next to each other under ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picking cocoa nuts. - A black and white photo of a palm tree

Picking cocoa nuts. - A black and white photo of a palm tree

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Going to the market, constant spring road.

Going to the market, constant spring road.

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Me and my family. - A black and white photo of people and a horse

Me and my family. - A black and white photo of people and a horse

Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black... More

Jamaicans operating a compressed air drill.

Jamaicans operating a compressed air drill.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Wood carts. - A group of people riding on top of a horse drawn carriage

Wood carts. - A group of people riding on top of a horse drawn carriag...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

A Jamaica Rum-Shop. - A black and white photo of a man riding a horse

A Jamaica Rum-Shop. - A black and white photo of a man riding a horse

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

On the way home from market.

On the way home from market.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Washing day, Port Antonio.

Washing day, Port Antonio.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Negro quarters at Cristobal.

Negro quarters at Cristobal.

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

By the Rio Cobre. -- Coming from market. -- A coolie village.

By the Rio Cobre. -- Coming from market. -- A coolie village.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

The drive, Hope Gardens. -- Loading bananas. -- South Camp Road Hotel, Kingston.

The drive, Hope Gardens. -- Loading bananas. -- South Camp Road Hotel,...

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Horned cattle, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Horned cattle, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Jamaica town. - A cocoanut plantation. - A Jamaica village.

A Jamaica town. - A cocoanut plantation. - A Jamaica village.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

A corner of Henriques' panama factory. ; Unloading Jamaica produce at the sea-wall of Myers & Son.

A corner of Henriques' panama factory. ; Unloading Jamaica produce at ...

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A young Jamaican. - A man laying on a stone wall next to a pond

A young Jamaican. - A man laying on a stone wall next to a pond

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

A Jamaican sugar mill. - A black and white photo of people and horses

A Jamaican sugar mill. - A black and white photo of people and horses

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mid-day heat Jamaica. - A painting of a group of people sitting under a tree

Mid-day heat Jamaica. - A painting of a group of people sitting under ...

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Rosie, a Jamaican Negress. - Public domain portrait painting

Rosie, a Jamaican Negress. - Public domain portrait painting

Public domain photo of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stalls outside the market, Mandeville.

Stalls outside the market, Mandeville.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

As I passed this group on a Jamaican highway, the woman reading the Bible was saying, "So I ax de Lard what I shall do."

As I passed this group on a Jamaican highway, the woman reading the Bi...

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Draw me portrait please, sir." The load consists of school books and a pair of hobnail shoes.

Draw me portrait please, sir." The load consists of school books and a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Negro. - Public domain portrait print

A Negro. - Public domain portrait print

Public domain photo of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A very frequent sight along the roads of Jamaica.

A very frequent sight along the roads of Jamaica.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

On the road to market. - A painting of a woman walking a donkey with a basket on her head

On the road to market. - A painting of a woman walking a donkey with a...

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A Jamaican Negro artisan.

A Jamaican Negro artisan.

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A Jamaican peasant woman offering author a large bunch of orchids.

A Jamaican peasant woman offering author a large bunch of orchids.

Picryl description: Public domain image of flowers, flower arrangement, bouquet, blooming plant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

William Berryman - Negro wench dancing, Maverly, in white muslin

William Berryman - Negro wench dancing, Maverly, in white muslin

Drawing shows a woman dancing with sketches of women playing the fiddle above and below her; the top fiddle player's clothing is numbered. On verso are two sketches of a fiddler, at top with a jug on a table, a... More

William Berryman - Negro wench dancing, Maverly, in white muslin

William Berryman - Negro wench dancing, Maverly, in white muslin

Drawing shows a woman dancing with sketches of women playing the fiddle above and below her; the top fiddle player's clothing is numbered. On verso are two sketches of a fiddler, at top with a jug on a table, a... More