72 x 43 mm. A view looking out towards the harbour crowded with dhows and other shipping. Photographer unknown. Mr Wigglesworth in pencil on reverse.

104 x 47 mm (both sections of stereo print). A view looking along the Zanzibar waterfront with dhows moored just off shore.

102 x 60 mm. A view from Chandler's house, looking over the roof tops towards the harbour. The island on the horizon is probably Bawe Island.

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.

158 x 203 mm. This picture shows the Zanzibar Opposition delegates. From left to right: Sheikh Hasnuu Makame Mwita, Sheikh Othman Shariff Musa, Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume, Sheikh Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi and Sheikh Abdulla Kassim Hanga.

155 x 203 mm. This picture shows the Zanzibar Government delegates. From left to right: Sheikh Abadhar Juma Khatib, Sheikh Salim Kombo Saleh, Sheikh Maulidi Mshangama Haji, Sheikh Al Muhsin el Barwani, Sheikh Mohamed Shamte Hamadi (the Prime Minister), Sheikh Juma Aley and Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Rahman Edarus Baalawy.

156 x 204 mm. Mr. Duncan Sandys (left), Secretary of State for the Colonies, talking with Sir Hilton Poynton, Permanent Secretary of the Colonial Office, before opening the Zanzibar Independence Conference in Lancaster House

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.