The Door to Lee Perry's, Washington Gardens

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A color photograph of the exterior door to Lee "Scratch" Perry's in the Washington Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. The image depits a colorful, closed wooden door with barred side window and brick exterior. The window has metal bars in a decorative scroll design. The door, window, bars, and brick wall have been red, yellow and green. The left side of the window, next to the door, has a wide streak of purple and two purple hand prints are visible in the red paint of the top left portion of the door. The center of the door has been covered in blue and purple toned images of Emperor Haile Selassie I. There are colorful, metallic stickers of Selassie I across the top of the door and two near the center of the window.

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