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Port of Brisbane
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085W
Scope and Contents
Album containing nine coloured (180 x 130 mm) and one black and white (205 x 135 mm) photographs of the Port of Brisbane, with printed captions. The album, which is not full, is a Saga self-adhesive album made in Japan. The first page reproduces the Charter and the Coat of Arms, with description (all in colour). The second page sets out brief facts about the Port's involvement in coal exports.
Dates:
1983
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Portfolio of Victoria Falls
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052J
Scope and Contents
Portfolio of collotype prints of views of the Victorian Falls, each marked 'Copyright G.B. & Co. P.O. Box 1018 Cape Town,' and each has a printed caption.
Dates:
1904
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'Portonian' cartoons
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 300
Scope and Contents
A large folio volume of pasted in satirical cartoons relating to South Australia. The cartoons are titled at the top 'Portonian', and have captions below the image. Many of the pictures are numbered and dated. The volume includes a satirical annual diary with a cartoon in the centre, 4 December 1875, and a plan of the city of Adelaide 'compiled and published by the proprietors, Frearson and Brother, Adelaide, 1874', which was a supplement to the 'Portonian', 13 March 1875. The volume is...
Dates:
1872 - 1879
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Portrait of Andries van den Heever
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3056A
Scope and Contents
136 x 194 mm. A loose print with a contemporary caption on a separate piece of paper reading 'Andries van den Heever. Member of the Pétrusburg Congregation. Aged 66. Height 6ft. 3ins. Round waist 7ft 3ins. Weight 635 Lbs.' The full-length portrait shows van den Heever seated on a chair and holding a carved walking stick. A modern copy of the print (which is in itself a copy of an older photograph) is included with this item.
Dates:
1890
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Portrait of Dr. Giorgio Borg Olivier, c.1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3017D
Scope and Contents
180 x 245 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of the former Maltese Prime Minister. Photograph by Grech's Studio, 54 St. John's Street, Valletta.
Dates:
1960
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Portrait of Dr. Oronhyatekha. c.1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062F
Scope and Contents
A mounted cabinet portrait, measuring 94 x 136 mm, and showing Dr. Oronhyatekha dressed in a long coat and standing beside a table. Dr. Oronhyatekha (1841-1907) was the Supreme Chief Ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters. In 1860 he met the Prince of Wales who invited him to continue his studies at Oxford where he qualified as a physician.
Dates:
1890
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Portrait of John McDouall Stuart, April 1863
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308C
Scope and Contents
56 x 68 mm. Showing a seated head and shoulders portrait of the explorer. Around the perimeter of the print, is printed 'Professor Hall, Photo: Adelaide, Apr: 1863.' Stuart (1815-1866) was born in Fife and emigrated to South Australia in 1839. His first exploring expedition was with Charles Sturt in 1844, after which he practised as a surveyor until 1858. In that year he explored the Lake Torrens and Lake Gairdner hinterland, discovering rich grazing land of which he was later granted...
Dates:
1863-04
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Portrait of Mary Kingsley
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043T
Scope and Contents
104 x 143 mm. A mounted and framed print. The portrait is a full length studio photograph and shows Mary Kingsley standing beside a stone balustrade against a painted backdrop of gardens and woodland. Also mounted in the frame photograph is a letter from her brother Charles Kingsley to Sir John Smalman Smith dated August 31 1901, presenting him with the portrait and remarking: 'For some reason, she did not care for this portrait but it has always seemed to me to be by far the best one...
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, c.1862
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043CC
Scope and Contents
56 x 85 mm. A carte de visite studio portrait.The print shows a full length portrait against a rustic backdrop of Sarah Forbes Bonetta and her husband James Pinson Labulo Davies. The print is inserted into slits made in the title page of Forbes (1851), opposite the chromolithographed frontispiece showing Sarah Forbes as a young girl. Sarah Forbes was a Yoruba girl captured by the King of Dahomey in 1848 during a war in which her parents were killed. She was given as a present to...
Dates:
1862
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portrait of Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, circa 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448E
Scope and Contents
Half length signed studio portrait of Sir Gordon Guggisberg measuring 173 x 235 mm. Guggisberg (1869-1930) was born in Canada and after an English education was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1889. After service in Singapore and at Woolwich he was employed under the Colonial Office in 1902 on a survey of the Gold Coast. In 1905 he was appointed Director of Surveys. In 1910 he became Director of Surveys, Southern Nigeria and in 1913 Surveyor-General of Nigeria. After war...
Dates:
1920
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portrait of Sir Frederick Lugard as Governor of Hong Kong
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038D
Scope and Contents
105 x 195 cms on mount in frame 215 x 310 cms. Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1858-1945), created Baron Lugard of Abinger in 1928, is associated chiefly with Africa, but was Governor of Hong Kong from 1907 to 1912. He was chiefly responsible for the creation of the University of Hong Kong in 1911. This full-length portrait of him in Governor's full-dress uniform is signed at the bottom.
Dates:
1907 - 1912
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Portrait of Stanley
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 129
Scope and Contents
An unpublished account of H.M. Stanley's life drawing on letters and diaries provided by Major Denzil Stanley, c. 1970, 283 pages. A short introduction has been added by D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, May 1987.
Dates:
1970 - 1987
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Portrait of Tiyo Soga
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305N
Scope and Contents
A carte de visite albumen print portrait measuring 53 x 73 mm (oval). The print is mounted as the frontispiece to: Chalmers, John A (1877), Tiyo Soga : a page of South African mission work, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot. The half-length portrait shows Tiyo Soga dressed in European clothes and seated beside a table with a book in one hand.Soga (1829-1871) was the first black South African ordained as a Christian minister. Tiyo Soga's father was a counsellor in the Ngqika branch of the...
Dates:
1865
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portrait of Walter Montagu Kerr
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052K
Scope and Contents
A woodburytype print measuring 103 x 166 mm. mounted as the frontispiece to Walter Montagu Kerr, 'The Far Interior' (2 vols. London 1886). The half length studio portrait shows Kerr in an open necked shirt and a bush hat standing in front of a backdrop of vegetation.Kerr (1852-1888), an explorer of central Africa in Livingstone's footsteps started life as an engineer, working for a period on the old Tay Bridge. In 1873 he went to California in an engineering capacity, eventually...
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portraits, circa 1900s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011W
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints with captions on the reverse, which have been recorded as found. The photographs, which are of various sizes, are portraits of people from Africa, the West Indies and Australia.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
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Portraits of African celebrities, circa 1870 - 1923
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304C
Scope and Contents
A collection of oval portraits mainly measuring approximately 90 x 140 mm and mounted as plates in Weinthal (1923-25). The plates are inserted in the volumes thus:Volume I: 1-17Volume II: 18-25Volume III: 26-30Volume IV: 31-41The process used for the production of these plates has not been identified but to all intents and purposes they have the look of original prints. Plates 31-32, 35, 38 and 40-41 are photogravure reproductions. The portraits show explorers,...
Dates:
1870 - 1923
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portraits of Bishop John Colenso and Cetshwayo ka Mpande
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058F
Scope and Contents
Two prints tipped in as frontispiece portraits to Francis Ellen Colenso 'The ruin of Zululand'.
Dates:
1882
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portraits of Brigadier-General Sir James Tennant, 1805 and circa 185[0s]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022LL
Scope and Contents
Portrait miniature by an unknown artist and a carte-de-visite portrait by Antoine Claudet, 107 Regent Street, London.Sir James Tennant was born at Ayr on 21 April 1789 and entered the Bengal Artillery as a Cadet in 1804. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1806 and arrived in India in August of that year. He saw active service in local campaigns, in the Maratha War 1817-19 and at the siege of Bharatpur 1825-26. He rose to the rank of Brigadier-General and commanded the Artillery at the...
Dates:
1805 - 1859
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portraits of Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCI
Scope and Contents
The collection provides the basis for a fascinating inquiry into the social history of the institute during its early years. Its officers and membership included royal patrons, British and colonial politicians, explorers, settlers, colonial administrators, merchants, industrialists, soldiers, sailors, medics, missionaries, scientists, historians, and creative writers. Images of the institute’s first full women fellows begin to appear from 1922. The photographs document the growth of the...
Dates:
1881 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portraits of James Martin
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468Z
Scope and Contents
James Martin (aka Antonio Martini) (1857-1924), of Maltese origin, was a sail maker by tradition, who joined an American ship sailing from India to Zanzibar where it was wrecked. He worked as a handyman at the Church Missionary Society mission at Freetown, and then in 1883-4, accompanied Joseph Thomson through Masailand before becoming second in command of the Sultan of Zanzibar's troops. Martin next entered the service of the Imperial British East Africa Company, accompanying Gedge and...
Dates:
1900 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portraits of Joseph Thomson and Keith Johnston
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304D
Scope and Contents
Woodbury type portraits.
Dates:
1881
Conditions Governing Access:
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Portraits of the Cabul prisoners
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 101
Scope and Contents
Coloured drawings and portraits illustrating the Cabul prisoners of 1842.
Dates:
1842
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Postcard Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC
Dates:
1890 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
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Postcard views of Sierra Leone, circa 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446G
Scope and Contents
A small album (photographs now housed in a box file) containing monochrome postcards of Sierra Leone scenery and people. An inscription on the inside cover of the album reads 'For the use of the Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland Avenue, London WC from J.W. Paris for Paris and Co., Photographers, 50 Kissy Road, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 28/9/03'.
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Postcards of Busselton, Western Australia 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081C
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographic postcards, 138 x 85 mm., with 'Busseldon [sic] W.A. 1925' written on the back of each. Busselton is a holiday resort on Geographe Bay, 149 miles by rail south of Perth. Though settled by the Bussell family in 1832, it made little progress until it received an impetus, about 1921, under the group settlement policy of the State Premier, Sir James Mitchell. The photographs are not captioned and the following descriptions are derived from their content.
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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