82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

229 x 202 mm. A view showing Africans at work in a small cultivated patch, with a cottage in the background.

143 x 85 mm. A similar view to the preceding plate.

141 x 84 mm. A view looking along the Zanzibar waterfront with the Customs buildings and sheds in the foreground. The print shows the part of the waterfront seen in the left hand section of Y3047A/1.

143 x 85 mm. A view looking along the waterfront road with labourers pushing a cart loaded with crates in the foreground. Behind them on the road is the metal hull of a ship (origin unidentified) with the Beit-el-Ajeib largely obscured by palm trees beyond.

83 x 143 mm. A view showing dhows moored on the beach at Zanzibar.

77 x 131 mm. Underexposed. A view looking along a narrow, unidentified Zanzibar street. The building at the right, with a heart-shaped sign over the door, is the Africa Hotel. With a brief letter to his son Michael on the back of the print.

260 x 207 mm. A view looking along an unidentified street in Zanzibar, with more substantial buildings in the foreground leading on to thatched huts beyond.

151 x 207 mm. A view looking along an unidentified street, probably in Zanzibar. The large white building at the right of the print flies the Union Jack from its mast and has many other flags draped over its façade. Prominent among those is the white ensign and the occasion is probably the visit of a British warship.

160 x 210 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

55 x 55 mm.

218 x 151 mm. A fine photograph showing a market scene in Zanzibar with crowds buying and selling wares from baskets laid on the ground.

277 x 198 mm. A view showing a company of Zanzibar troops on parade in front of a large white building. Exact location unidentified, possibly outside the Sultan’s stables.

206 x 151 mm. A view showing a pair of decorated wooden war drums with leather stretched across top and bottom and a wooden club for beating the implement.

194 x 144 mm. A view looking along a beach towards a settlement of thatched huts, probably in Zanzibar. With a fisherman standing beside his dugout in the foreground.

193 x 144 mm. A view from the harbour looking towards a waterfront settlement, with dhows at anchor in the foreground.

216 x 152 mm. A view showing a crowded scene at the western end of the Zanzibar waterfront. Crowds of spectators are gathered in front of the godowns while yet more seem to be arriving by boat. They are evidently awaiting the arrival of a dignitary at Old British Agency Pier, but the occasion has not been identified.

151 x 209 mm. A view showing two Swahili girls, one arranging the other's hair in the distinctive Swahili style : 'Her hair... is 'done' in a number of ways, but the usual coiffure affected is the plaiting of her sparse locks into a series of ridges disposed at regular intervals over her head, which ridges are separated from one another by shallow valleys of bare scalp.' (Pearce 1920). A note on the reverse says 'Note shirt buttons in ears'.

84 x 84 mm. Showing Bell's entourage riding along a road in Zaria, with a uniformed standard bearer leading the group.

157 x 113 mm. matt print with copy and 56 mm. negative. Work started in 1900 and the school was founded in 1907. Rev. Henry Miller stands with his bicycle in front.

158 x 113 mm. matt print with 35 mm. negative.

158 x 113 mm. matt print with 35 mm. negative.

156 x 114 mm. glossy print.

99 x 72 mm. One of several prints. Showing the body of animals lying where they were shot