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Sunday, June 23, 2013

19th and early 20th century Jamaica

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 


mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuriessome Jamaicans you may not have met . . . (2 photos)

Date Tree Hall -  image from Kingston in the 19th century; it was a famous 'lodging house' until the 1870s when it housed the beginnings of the Institute of Jamaica. It was destroyed in the 1907 earthquake and fire, along with so much of the old down-town Kingston.

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