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Jamaica Tourist Board Newspaper Print Ad 1974 Doyle Dane Bernbach Advertising Agency NY Headline: JAMAICA $145 Come to where you can lunch on beaches..." DDB Art Director Charles Abrams

Contributor: Simone Myrie I grew up in deep rural Jamaica. In my district none of the citizens owned a motor vehicle, and so we walked everywhere. At age four I walked almost a mile to basic school on dirt tracks and unpaved roads. Back then we took our own cooked lunches to school. Some students wore shoes while others just went barefoot. There was no sense of inadequacy or inferiority felt by those who were shoe-less, and those who were fortunate enough to wear shoes did not feel as if…

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The first Indians known to Jamaica were the Arawak Indians or the Taíno Indians. This tribe originated along the northern coast of South America, including what is now Venezuela. Historians believe that these Indians came up through the Antilles and into Jamaica in two different waves. The first wave of inhabitants is known as the"redware people,"who probably arrived around 650 AD. The second wave arrived between 850 and 900 AD. However, I am writing this post about the "East Indians. They…

Pompey🌴JAMAICA🇯🇲Can’t get enough of this place🎶 hats off @diplo for creating this paradise for the soul. Thought I was taking a month off, but then this idea of Jamaica came up last minute, didn’t even have time to think what to expect—so expected nothing! Didn’t even check the map. My intention? BE FREE in Jamaica, get in the studio and cook (music). there’s so much of the same music out there these days, so really just wanted to get immersed in jamaica’s rich culture and its pure…

Item: 1-433 Title: The Village Belle, Jamaica Photographer: Publisher: C.H. Graves Publisher#: 96 Year: 1899 Height: 3.2 in Width: 6 in Media: Gelatin Silver stereocard Color: b/w Country: Jamaica Town: Notes: For information about licensing this image, visit: THE CARIBBEAN PHOTO ARCHIVE

Item: 1-527 Title: West India Pickaninnies - Scholars and Teacher before a School-house in Jamaica Photographer: Publisher: Strohmeyer & Wyman Publisher#: Year: Height: 3.2 in Width: 6 in Media: Gelatin Silver stereocard Color: b/w Country: Jamaica Town: Notes: For information about licensing this image, visit: THE CARIBBEAN PHOTO ARCHIVE

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Ad for trip on United Fruit Company ship from Philadelphia and Baltimore to Jamaica

These 9 Jamaican Things Will Make You Feel Really Old - Jamaicans.com

I was in Trenchtown, Jamaica for a few weeks & stayed with family members of friends. I'll never understand how others can go to this island for spring break or honeymoon happily knowing the very level of poverty that exists mere feet outside the luxury resort they are staying at..Jah love to the people of Jamaica!!

An archive of images from 19th-century Jamaica shows a country freed from the bonds of slavery but still under white rule

Jamaica Tourist Board Newspaper Print Ad 1974 Doyle Dane Bernbach Advertising Agency NY Headline: JAMAICA $145 Come to where it's like summer..." Art Director Charles Abrams

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HALF WAY TREE, ST. ANDREW It derives its name from a cotton tree dating from the Conquest, which existed as late as 1866. Richard Hill, in an article which was published posthumously in the "Victoria Quarterly" in 1890, said: Engraving; AC Collection I visited Halfway Tree on Sunday the 25th November, 1866. When I first saw the cotton tree at the junction of the four roads through the plain of Liguanea from which Halfway Tree receives its name, it had nearly lived out its time. It is of that…

The History of Jamaica Festival - What a bam bam!