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130 x 78 mm. Showing Bell marching with Lt. Col. Austin Charles Godfrey (Inspector General of Police) and Major E.W.N. Walker, Officer commanding troops in Mauritius. Photograph probably taken outside Government House on Bell's arrival.

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168 x 120 mm. Showing Bell standing among a group of West Indian women, each of whom holds a baby in her arms, judging by Bell's age in the print, this photograph must have been taken well after his period in government service in the area.

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168 x 120 mm. Showing Bell standing among a group of West Indian women, each of whom holds a baby in her arms, judging by Bell's age in the print, this photograph must have been taken well after his period in government service in the area.

Scope and Contents 208 x 158 mm. Showing Bell standing among a group of the British Cotton Growing Association in a Manchester street. The only other identified figure in the group is James Arthur Hutton (1862-1925), at the left of the photograph. Hutton, a co-founder of the Association, devoted many years work to the development of the cotton trade in the Empire and published a number of books on the subject. Bell's speech at the meeting pointed out that foreign competition was taking a disproportionate...

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140 x 90 mm. Showing HHB with the others identified sitting under a tree, possibly at Le Reduit.

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210 x 165 mm. Interior view of a meeting in session, with HHB presiding. Possibly his final Council of Government, 5 August 1924. Some blurring and glare from lighting.

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210 x 165 mm. Interior view of a meeting in session, with HHB presiding. Possibly his final Council of Government, 5 August 1924. Some blurring and glare from lighting.

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193 x 132 mm. Showing Bell and other officials walking past a guard of honour on the platform of Zungeru Station on his departure on leave.

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192 x 131 mm. Showing Bell (now dressed in civilian clothes) talking to a group of officials on Zungeru Station, with a locomotive at the left and a guard of honour in the background..

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126 x 99 mm. Showing Bell, accompanied by Inspector Ruane (Commander of Police), inspecting a guard of honour at the quayside of St John's. The figures standing in the background appear to be, from left to right: (Sir) Thomas Alexander Vans Best (1870-1941), Colonial Secretary; Benyon, Bell's A.D.C.; and Thomas Stafford Sidney (1863-1917), Attorney General.

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93 x 56 mm. Showing police on parade, with Bell standing beside a table for the distribution of medals.

Scope and Contents 205 x 140 mm. A group photograph, probably taken on the steps of Government House, of the major officials who participated in the procession and proclamation (from the Roseau Court House) of the accession of Edward VII. The event is recorded in some detail in a cutting from the Dominica Guardian of February 6 1901, pasted into volume 2 of Bell's press cuttings. The report lists the officials present but the only figures individually identified in this print are:Bell, standing at...

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59 x 105 mm. Showing two elephants with their keepers, with Bell seated in a carriage in the foreground. A photograph probably taken in Ceylon during Bell's visit to Asia in 1925.

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59 x 104 mm. Showing elephants blocking the passage of Bell's motor car on a country road in Ceylon.

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59 x 105 mm. Showing elephants blocking the passage of Bell's motor car on a country road in Ceylon.

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Showing Knowles, Bell and Kahaya seated amongst a group of retainers in front of a thatched house.

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Showing Knowles, Bell and Kahaya seated amongst a group of retainers in front of a thatched house.

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88 x 60 mm. An oval print showing Bell seated at the edge of an ornamental pond at Le Reduit.

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74 x 100 mm. A staged photograph showing Bell pretending to be asleep on the verandah of a bungalow with a large dead python posed as if approaching him up the steps.

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86 x 75 mm. Showing Bell standing beside the elephant Futki in the grounds of Government House.

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88 x 76 mm. Showing Bell seated in a howdah on Futki the elephant's back, with the mahout Shief Munshi seated on the animal's neck and the syce (groom) standing to one side. With Government House in the background.

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86 x 78 mm. Showing Bell standing beside Futki in the grounds of Government House, Entebbe.

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80 x 80 mm. Showing Bell seated in a howdah on Futki the elephant's back, with the mahout Shief Munshi seated on the animal's neck and the syce (groom) standing to one side. With Government House in the background.

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80 x 80 mm. Showing Bell seated in a howdah on Futki the elephant's back, with the mahout Shief Munshi seated on the animal's neck and the syce (groom) standing to one side. With Government House in the background.

Scope and Contents 199 x 148 mm. Showing a large group, with Bell in the centre, posed on the steps and verandah of Government House, Entebbe. The group presumably shows all the guests present at a garden party celebrating the presentation by Bell of a second Challenge Cup to the Entebbe Golf Club in January 1909. Figures identified in this group are: George Wilson, seated next to Bell; Frank Burton, at extreme right; Captain W.H. Nicholson, at centre of group in left foreground; Captain E.V. Jenkins, at...