Image Gallery

Margaret and Thomas Albert Manley, Norman’s parents

Harvey and Ellie Swithenbank, Edna’s parents

Norman and Edna, a handsome couple

Edna, posed at thirtyish (she never really inhaled)

Norman at the opening of Parliament in Kingston, after his last election campaign (1967)

Norman Manley, The Queen’s Council

Douglas (standing) and Michael Manley

Pardi picks a rose—“I should have been a farmer”

Norman addressing a group on the docks

Norman, Edna, Lady Sylvia Foote, HRH Princess Margaret, Sir Hugh Foote, then Governor of Jamaica, during a Royal Visit to Jamaica in i960. Mardi always thought Princess Margaret “quite fancied” her Norman

Norman with John F. Kennedy in Washington in 1961

Norman with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on his official visit to Jamaica in 1961

Norman and N.N. “Crab” Nethersole watching Douglas equal his father’s 100-yard record

Norman touring West Kingston

Mardi in her public role

Norman in his seventies

Rachel’s great aunt Vera Moodie, Norman’s eldest sister

Dr. Muriel Manley, Rachel’s great aunt and Norman’s sister

Nomdmi, “in the middle of nowhere,” with Edna and Leslie Clark on the verandah

“Negro Aroused” (back view)—Edna’s 1935 icon: mahogany; National Gallery of Jamaica; Dennis Gick photo

Douglas, Norman and Michael at Drumblair

Michael and Jacqueline, Rachel’s parents, pushing her in a pram in Hyde Park

Edna and Rachel (first photograph together)

Rachel at five

“How I first remember my father”

Douglas (standing) and Carmen, Edna and Norman with Norman Junior and Rachel on their laps, at Drumblair

Michael’s second wife, the dancer Thelma

Barbara, Michael’s third wife, in her sharkskin suit

Michael from “young boy” to “Joshua”

Michael at fortyish