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123 x 100 mm. A slightly blurred print showing Bell presenting the Inter-Island Cricket Challenge Shield, probably to Mr. Peters, captain of the winning Antigua team (possibly James Edwards Peters, appointed Clerk to the Magistrate in 1895).

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125 x 86 mm. Showing Bell, Princess Marie Louise and two other figures seated in a carriage standing in the driveway of Government House.

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198 x 148 mm. Showing Bell walking away from a corrugated iron building decorated with flags. Bell's visit is briefly described in his letters of September 1910, although the reception is not mentioned.

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126 x 98 mm. Showing Bell stepping from a steam launch on to the jetty at St. John's.

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140 x 90 mm. Showing Bell arriving by launch.

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110 x 85 mm. HHB and guard of honour.

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110 x 85 mm. HHB by his car.

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110 x 85 mm. Showing HHB in his car as it drives off.

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126 x 100 mm. Showing Bell and Major Ledeath on horseback, with members of the Antigua Volunteer Defence Force in the background. This special parade took place on 7 October 1914.

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125 x 79 mm. Showing Bell, Major Ledeatt and men of the Antigua Volunteer Defence Force, raising their hats to cheer the King at the special parade held on 7 October 1914.

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96 x 119 mm. Showing Bell and Sir Apolo Kagwa standing on the verandah of a house, probably in Kampala.

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165 x 121 mm. Showing Bell seated on a garden bench with two young children. No further information has been found as to the identity of the Sharwells.

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90 x 68 mm. Showing Bell seated with a rifle beside a dead stag.

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A paper silhouette, giving a head and shoulders profile portrait of Bell.

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283 x 205 mm. A full length portrait of Bell, dressed in a civilian suit and wearing a pith helmet, standing beside a railway locomotive. A photograph probably taken at Zungeru.

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87 x 87 mm. Showing Bell standing in uniform on the steps of Government House, St. John's.

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85 x 82 mm.

Scope and Contents A collection of prints by various photographers. Bell makes mention several times in his letters and diaries of taking photographs and many of the prints in the collection are evidently snapshots taken by him or by someone using his camera. Some professional work is included in the albums, the two most prominent photographers being Alfred Lobo (Uganda) and Jose Anjo (Dominica). In addition, Y3011F contains work by such well-known London photographers as Elliot and Fry, Maull and Fox,...

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Showing a European group posed with elephant tusks, animal skins and antelope skulls. Bell is seated in the centre with Frank Burton on the ground at the front. The figure at the left is possibly Frederick Knowles. The remaining man is unidentified.

Scope and Contents This porcelain statue bears the tag, ‘Found in ruins of St. Pierre, miraculously preserved 1902’. It was recovered from the ruins of St. Pierre, Martinique, in June 1902, by Sir Hesketh Bell, Administrator of Dominica, who visited immediately after the eruption of Mt. Pelée, ‘To our intense surprise, we found that this image was almost entirely undamaged, the hands and feet only having been broken off. This was a really an amazing thing, as it lay almost completely covered by big stones and...

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87 x 95 mm. A view showing Bell working at a desk in an open-sided summerhouse with a thatched roof. The location has been identified by Lennox Honeychurch.

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87 x 95 mm. A view showing Bell working at a desk in an open-sided summerhouse with a thatched roof. The location has been identified by Lennox Honeychurch.

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128 x 79 mm. Showing Bell and an unidentified couple standing in front of the verandah of the bungalow of Sylvania, Bell's experimental plantation in Dominica.

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205 x 149 mm. A group photograph with Bell seated in the centre behind the 'Hesketh Bell Challenge Cup' presented by him in January 1909. W.H. Nicholson and Dr. H.B. Owen, joint winners of the new cup, which was played for on January 22 and 23, are seated on either side of Bell. Photograph by Alfred Lobo.