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Australia (Torrington Collection)
Australian Collection
Australian sketches of Richard Read
Thrity-five sketches of birds and other images, two photographs and correspondence regarding Richard Read, including biographical information.
Autobiography drafts of Thomas Westgate
Typescript drafts of chapters from 'A son of the Canadian Church' covering Westgate's time in German East Africa, 1902, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1909-1912 and 1913-1914 (3 sets). There are manuscript annotations and a few pages of notes.
Band of the 2nd Nigerian Regiment
Sepia photograph, measuring 105 x 80 mm, mounted on card measuring 150 x 230 mm, with the crest of the regiment and 'Xmas Greetings and Best Wishes'. A calendar for 1930 is mounted on it.
Bangladesh photographs
Collection of photographs probably by official photographers. 1-3 measure 185 x 150 mm and 4-5 measure 150 x 25 mm.
Banso report, 1933-1934
A report on Banso, a district of the Cameroons, including a map. There is no indication as to the terms of reference of the report or for whom it was made, although the index is headed 'Banso re-assessment report'. At the end of the report is a range of appended material.
Barbados and North-West Frontier Province
Barbara Tyrrell watercolours
Sixty original watercolours (280 x 380 mm). Original titles and captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.
Barnes family photographs
B.B.C. African Service scripts
The scripts of programmes transmitted on the African Service as part of the African Theatre and the Writers' Club.
Bendigo gold production
154 x 170 mm. Mounted photograph. Shows cubes of various sizes representing the relative outputs of different mines. The fronts of the cubes have printed on them information about size, dividends and value. A printed caption stuck beneath the photograph states: 'The above 27 companies represent a paid-up capital of £437,631. Value for gold produced, £6,132,544. Dividends paid, £3,131,355. Approximate value of the 27 mines and machinery, £2,000,000.
Bieneman collection
An album of 73 photographs, mostly three to a page, measuring 145 x 88 mm. save for numbers 16-21, 31, 34-42 and 58-66, which measure 88 x 145 mm. Subjects are, for the most part, indigenous people and their animals. An obituary from The Times, included with the album, contains a tribute to Bieneman's work from a former pupil, Aliyu Makaman Bida.
Bishop James Hannington collection
Blackspot removals in Natal: papers collected by John Aitchison
Papers, news cuttings, copies of articles, correspondence, and photographs and negatives, collected by John Aitchison documenting the impact of the Blackspot Removal Campaign in Natal.
Bob Le Sueur in East and Southern Africa
A diary describing Le Sueur's time in Africa, November 1997 - April 1998, 190 pages with a two-page index. The volume covers the journey out (pp. 1-3), Kenya (4-65), Tanzania (65-85), Malawi (65-98), Zimbabwe (99-113), Namibia (113-125), South Africa (126-152, 157-172 and 174-184), Lesotho (152-157), Swaziland (172-174) and the journey home (184-188).
Bombay photographs
Sepia prints on mounts. Their appearance suggests that cardboard frames, originally stuck down surrounding the photograph, have been crudely removed. The prints are interesting reflections of British social life and were the property of the grandfather of Mrs. M. Heuston (no further identification or information given).
Boosé Scrapbooks
A collection of scrapbooks containing press cuttings, correspondance, photographs, tickets, invitations, menus and programmes.
Borneo in the sixties: letters from Sarawak
Brian Mull Collection
Brisbane
Collection of photographs measuring mainly 90 x 63 mm. Photographer unknown.
Brisbane illustrated: A series of twelve views of some of the principal public buildings and scenery of the city
A commercially produced album with printed title page and captions. Photographed and published by George P Wright, James Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
Brisbane; riverside scene with crowd assembled at landing point
245 x 195 mm. This sepia print has Brisbane in pencil on the back, but is otherwise unidentified. The costume suggests a date in the late 1880s.
'British activities in Yucatan': MA thesis
'British activities in Yucatan and on the Moskito Shore in the eighteenth century', a M.A. thesis for the University of London, 263 pages, with maps.
British Cameroons 1937-42
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- George, VI, 1895 - 1952 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 3
- Hartley, Diana, 1894 - 1986 (nursing administrator in India) 3
- Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, 1858 - 1945 (Baron Lugard, colonial administrator, soldier and author) 3
- Penn, Albert Thomas Watson, 1849-1924 (photographer) 3
- Royal Colonial Institute 3
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- Australian Information Service 2
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- Bermuda News Bureau 2
- Best, Margaret Mary, 1872 - 1941 2
- Brewster, Adolf Brewster, 1854 - 1937 (anthropologist) 2
- British Broadcasting Corporation 2
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- British, Association of Malaysia and Singapore 2
- Byron-May Company (fl. 1906-1917) (photographers) 2
- Caire, Nicholas John, 1837 -1918 (photographer) 2
- Campbell, Killie, 1881 - 1965 (collector of Africana) 2
- Canadian Pacific Railway 2
- Cansdale, George Soper, 1909 2
- Copeland, A E, fl1917 - 1918 2
- Corner, Edred John Henry, 1906 - 1996 (Botanist) 2
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- Cust, Robert Needham, 1821 - 1909 (orientalist) 2
- Dick, James, 1862 - 1926 (businessman and soldier in South Africa) 2
- Drake, Bernard L, fl1955 - 1961 (civil servant) 2
- Ellison, Randall Erskine, 1904 - 1984 (colonial administrator) 2
- Elsy, R, fl1880 - 1889 2
- Fisher, Alfred Hugh, 1867 -1945 (artist and photographer) 2
- Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias, 1831-1914 (Inspector of Police and photographer) 2
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- Frome, Edward Charles, 1802 - 1890 (General) 2
- G R Lambert and Co (fl. 1875-1919) (photographers) 2
- Gedge, Ernest, 1862 - 1935 (colonial administrator) 2
- George, V, 1865 - 1936 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 2
- Goepel, John, 1906 2
- Gray, Sir (John Milner, 1889-1970, Knight and colonial administrator) 2
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ministry of Information. West African Photographic Service 2
- Historical Society of Nigeria 2
- Hone, Sir (Herbert Ralph, 1896-1992, Knight, Major General, colonial administrator) 2
- John Watson and Co (fl. 1855-1875) (photographers) 2
- Joselin, Frank E, fl1930 - 1947 2
- Jukes, Worthington, 1849 - 1937 (missionary) 2
- Kerry, Charles, 1858-1928 (photographer) 2
- King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874 - 1950 (Canadian statesman) 2
- Laing, John William (b c 1846) 2
- Livingstone, David, 1813 - 1873 (African missionary and explorer) 2
- Lovett, Hubert Richard, 1854 - 1908 (army officer) 2
- Macfie, John William Scott, 1879 - 1948 (doctor) 2
- Mann, A R H, fl. 1935 2
- Margaret, Rose, 1930 - 2002 (Princess, daughter of George VI) 2
- Matson, Albert Thomas, 1915 - 1987 2
- Millar, Ernest, 1868 - 1917 (missionary) 2
- Morris, Sir (Daniel, 1844-1933, Knight) 2
- Mutesa, II, 1924 - 1969 (Kabaka of Buganda) 2
- Newton, Lillian Allan, 1894 - 1977 2
- Notman, William, 1826-1891 (photographer) 2
- O'Kelly, Elizabeth, 1915c (olonial officer) 2
- Parker, Frederick Hardyman, fl1890 2
- Pedrotti, L, fl. 1902 (photographer) 2
- Philip, b, 1921 (Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II) 2
- Pickard, Sir (Cyril Stanley, b 1917, Knight, British High Commissioner of Pakistan) 2
- Platé and Co 2
- Robinson, Wren, fl1928 - 1981 2
- Roth, Henry Ling, 1855 - 1925 (ethnologist) 2
- S H Parsons and Sons (1871-1933) (photographers) 2
- Sedgwick, Thomas E, 1929 2
- Smith, James Carmichael, 1852 - 1919 2
- Stuart, Sir (Colin Campbell, 1885-1972, Knight and civil servant) 2
- Sueur, Robert W Le, fl1921 - 2001 2
- Tengely, Philip Louis, 1875 2
- Thompson, David, 1770 - 1857 (explorer and geographer) 2
- University of Sydney 2
- W L H Skeen and Co (1860-1920) (photographers) 2 ∧ less