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Title
Railway Train at May Pen Station, Jamaica
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
after 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Photograph of a stationary railway carriage at May Pen Station. People can be seen both on board the train and standing outside the train. May Pen is the capital and largest town in the parish of Clarendon, Jamaica and is one of Jamaica’s most important agricultural towns.
The railway line running through May Pen linked to the Citrus growing areas in the north of the parish and also to Lionel Town and its sugar production in the South.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68276 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-008.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68276
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-008.jpg
Subject
Railroads
Trade routes
External views
Place
Jamaica
May Pen
North and Central America
after 1900
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS12/8 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
The Jamaican Church in the Bush LS12

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