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73 x 103 mm. Showing the seal-like body of a recently captured manatee on the bank of the Niger, with Bell standing in the background.

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85 x 82 mm. Showing Bell seated on the riverbank reading a newspaper with a crocodile behind him: 'After lunch I shot a croc through the head, and Gray and I took a 'faked photo' of it. We propped open its tremendous jaws and posed him so as to let it appear that he was creeping stealthily up towards me, who am seated on the grass, placidly reading a newspaper. It made me quite a realistic picture.' (Bell 1907, March 1).

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Showing Bell seated on the riverbank reading a newspaper with a crocodile behind him: 'After lunch I shot a croc through the head, and Gray and I took a 'faked photo' of it. We propped open its tremendous jaws and posed him so as to let it appear that he was creeping stealthily up towards me, who am seated on the grass, placidly reading a newspaper. It made me quite a realistic picture.' (Bell 1907, March 1).

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134 x 78 mm. A slightly blurred view looking across the flag-draped courtyard of Government House, showing Bell announcing the armistice to the crowd from the first floor verandah.

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193 x 244 mm. Showing the Antiguan Cricket team posed with Bell around the Challenge Cup presented by him in April 1913. On the other side of the shield sits Lieutenant Colonel Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston (1870-1960), Commissioner of Montserrat.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell in his aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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105 x 60 mm. A view of Bell in his aquarium with a small summer-house attached.

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124 x 99 mm. Showing Bell and Princess Marie Louise on the verandah of Government House having just stepped down from the carriage standing in the foreground. The print is stamped on the reverse: 'Photograph and Copyright by José Anjo, St. John's, Antigua, B.W.I.'.

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119 x 99 mm. A view showing the group (including Bell and the Princess) standing on the verandah and carriage pulling away from the house. The print is stamped on the reverse: 'Photograph and Copyright by José Anjo, St. John's, Antigua, B.W.I.'.

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290 x 230 mm. Showing an unidentified figure reading an address of welcome to Princess Marie Louise on her arrival in Antigua. On the left stands a group of Antiguan and European members of the welcoming committee, faced on the right by members of the Princess' entourage. Bell stands in the centre of the group beneath the flag draped marquee erected near the landing stage in the Princess' honour.

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124 x 98 mm. Showing Bell and Princess Marie Louise talking to one another beneath the decorated marquee erected on the St. John's landing stage.

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124 x 100 mm. Showing Bell walking past the Guard of Honour on his way to meet Princess Marie Louise on the landing stage at St. John's.

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80 x 110 mm. Group of four women by rock. HHB (?) on a higher level.

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76 x 75 mm. Showing Bell being carried across a stream by his A.D.C. George Lightfoot and a second unidentified figure. Ile d'Ambre is situated off the NE coast of Mauritius. HHB engaged Lightfoot as his A.D.C. in August 1919.

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78 x 136 mm. Showing Bell standing on the bank of a river, probably at Le Reduit.

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85 x 82 mm. Showing Bell being carried head high on a wooden stretcher by four white robed Africans, presumably servants of Kahaya.

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Showing Bell being carried head high on a wooden stretcher by four white robed Africans, presumably servants of Kahaya.

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101 x 74 mm. Showing a group of Europeans posed on the steps leading up to the verandah of a house at Zaria. The only identified figures are Bell and his A.D.C. Frank Burton.

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140 x 90 mm. Group with HHB; it was the first such event held in Mauritius.

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64 x 43 mm. Showing Bell seated in the middle of a group on the deck of the Balmoral Castle.

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74 x 99 mm. Showing Bell standing on the seashore holding an octopus on the end of a pole.

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102 x 74 mm. Showing Bell seated in a small horse carriage outside an unidentified building, probably in Nassau in the 1890's.

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99 x 65 mm. Showing Bell being rowed ashore at Roseau, with crowds lining the waterfront in the background.

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102 x 77 mm. Showing Bell playing with one of his pet lion cubs in the garden of Government House, Entebbe.