Éditeur(s) : Leslie's Weekly Leslie's Weekly ( New York )
Résumé : Page 173 from Leslie's Weekly, Nov,. Article entitled "The Kingston earthquake at short range", by Francis E. Clark, Founder of the United Society of Christian Endeavor continues on verso.
Six illustrations: Plum Point Lighthouse, which was damaged by the earthquake and its ligth extinguished, causing the stranding of the steamship "Prinz Waldemar". -- Refugees each receiving the meagre food supply of two potatoes, a piece of bread, some brown sugar, and molasses. -- The American Consulate a mass of ruins - Vice-Counsul William H. Orrett standing in front of his demolished office. -- Hundreds of refugees in camp a the temporary market near the Parade ground. -- A crowd of homeless and hungry people waiting for the opening of the gate of the race-course relief station. -- Curious incident of the quake - Queen Victoria's statue, once facing the sea, turned completely around. -- Steamship "Prinz Waldemar," of the Hamburg-American Line, wrecked on the Jamaica coast because the Plum Point Light went out. -- Entrance to Up Park Camp, headquarters of the First West Indian Regiment, showing wreckage of gateways and buildings.
Kingston (Jamaica)

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Résumé : The slides were taken on collecting trips sponsored by the William L. Bryant Foundation, where books, music and art indigenous to the regions were gathered. The are organized by geographical location.
The remains of a brick building with no roof, lancet windows, and doorway in Saint Ann, Jamaica. Slide labeled Ruined Church East of Ocho Rios.
Jamaica -- Caribbean region -- Saint Ann

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