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Jamaica International Exhibition 1891.

Main building on a Jamaican stamp.

 

It was reported that a woman in a party of country people who came for a day at the Exhibition spent most of the time riding Bopp's merry-go-round. She was enjoying herself so much that, when she was finally persuaded to move on, she announced loudly to the company, ' Well, the very nex' pickney me have, me goin' call him "merry-go-round." '

Interior of the Main Pavilion

The Lascelles Pavilion, apparently the only Exhibition building, apart from the Main Pavilion, of which a picture survives

Survivals of the Exhibition of 1891 - the gates were purchased for the Old Harbour Market.

View full sized Under construction 1891

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