Mengo High School Boys being instructed in sowing para rubber seeds at Government Plantation, Kampala, 1910, 1906 - 1911
Scope and Contents
154 x 107 mm. Showing a row of boys planting rubber seedlings beneath an awning under the supervision of a European official (possibly H. Batey, overseer of Government plantations). Rubber cultivation (inspired by Sir Henry Hesketh Bell) was not a success in Uganda: the first trees were trapped in 1908, but Hesketh Bell notes in his memoirs that the experiments were allowed to lapse shortly after he left Uganda and little rubber was ever exported on a commercial scale.
Dates
- Creation: 1906 - 1911
Creator
- From the Fonds: Great Britain. Colonial Office. Visual Instruction Committee (Organization)
- From the Fonds: Fisher, Alfred Hugh, 1867 -1945 (artist and photographer) (Person)
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Biographical / Historical
Photographer unknown
Language of Materials
English
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Good condition.
Existence and Location of Originals
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Existence and Location of Copies
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Bibliography
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Originator(s)
Unknown
Finding aid date
2002-11-01 15:31:51+00:00
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