phantasmagoria

   The 'phantasmagoria' was one form of magic lantern show, which had been developed in the 18th century.

This is how it worked, according to a book from 1860:

   and an earlier explanation:

Philosophical conversations
Frederick Collier Bakewell
Printed for Longman, Rees, 1833

   The exhibition called phantasmagoria is produced by merely surrounding the objects painted on the slides with a perfectly opaque back ground, and then throwing the images on a screen through which they may be seen on the other side; the exhibitor and the lantern being thus concealed from view, and nothing visible but the luminous figures. As the lantern recedes from the screen the objects enlarge, and seem to advance upon the spectator; and as the exhibitor brings the lantern nearer, they seem to depart. The effect is still more wonderful if the image be thrown upon smoke rising from a concealed fire; in which case the moving smoke appears to give motion to the figure, and, to a person not aware of the deception, it produces an appalling sensation. The image may also be reflected from a thick fog as from a screen. Many a ghost story owes its origin to deceptions of this kind.

    I imagine that the phantasmagoria was a fairly familiar entertainment in Jamaica in the 19th century, but so far I have only found two brief references to such shows; others may turn up. 

. . . and then in 1872 -

'White Street' was the earlier name for Tower Street west of King Street.