40 x 62 mm. Nyange, a Bamendankwe woman with her child. Again, being mountain people they are short in stature with thick muscular thighs and broad chested.

40 x 62 mm. They usually wear one or at the most, two waist strings from which a few fibres form a fringe in front but they wear several necklaces of beads like the Dante people.

160 x 215 mm. Showing two men with spears and shields.

Photographs of mainly cotton and sweet potato farming in Nyanza.

When the RES Headquarters was rebuilt in 1934-36, gifts of timber for panelling and furnishing were obtained from Empire Governments, companies and individuals. Many were destroyed during the bombing of 1941 and replacement gifts were received. This file coordinates pre and post-war correspondence.

220 x 200 mm. Showing three boys posing in the road beside their home made bicycles.

205 x 160 mm. Showing three boys posing in the road beside their home made bicycles. The caption continues: 'These boys of the Yao tribe are not daunted by the fact that they cannot afford to buy bicycles. With characteristic ingenuity they have made their own from local materials and these cycles go quite well - downhill!.'

155 x 202 mm. Among the eighteen delegates attending the opening session of the Nyasaland Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House, London, are, left to right: Chief’s Chikumbu, Chinde, Makanjira, Masula and Katumbi.

155 x 203 mm. A general view of the final session of the Nyasaland Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House, London, as Britain’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr Ian Macleod, makes his closing address.

193 x 245 mm. Photograph shows: a general view as Mr. Iain Macleod makes the inaugural speech at the Conference.

156 x 202 mm. In this picture Mr. R.A. Butler is greeting Dr. Hastings Banda, before the start of the conference in Marlborough House.

139 x 203 mm. In this picture Dr. Hastings Banda (second from right) is flanked by, from left to right: Mr. M.H. Blackwood (United Federal Party, member of Legislative Council), Mr. C. Cameron (Independent, Minister of Works and Transport), and Mr. W.K. Chiume (Malawi Congress Party, Minister of Education and Social Development).

141 x 203 mm. In this picture, taken before the start of the conference, shows, left, Mr. W. Chokani (Malawi Congress Party, Minister of Labour) and right, Mr. O.E.C. Chirwa (Malawi Congress Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Justice).

151 x 206 mm. This picture, taken before the start of the conference, shows, left, Mr. Z.U. Tembo (Malawi Congress Party, member of Legislative Council) and right, Mr. I.K. Surtee (Malawi Congress Party, member of Legislative Council).

138 x 203 mm. This picture shows, left, Mr. R.G. Morgan, and right, Mr. L.A.Little, who are both United Federal Party members of the Legislative Council.

143 x 206 mm. In this picture Mr. R.A. Butler (chairman) is flanked by left, Mr. M.D. Tennant (Secretary, Central Africa Office), and, right, the Secretary General, Mr. A.M. Mackintosh.

153 x 156 mm. Mr Iain Macleod, Secretary of State for the Colonies, speaking at the opening session of the Nyasaland Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House.

Eleven diaries beginning in Cape Town, 1 January 1932, which Lawson was travelling through on route to take up his post, and continuing with occasional gaps up to 1943. The writing is mainly manuscript, but there are some inserted typescript entries. Although Lawson's will bequeathed 'the diaries written by me while a member of the Colonial Civil Service in Nyasaland from 1932 to 1944', there are no volumes for 1941 or 1944.

Collection of 'oilette' and monochrome postcards of Nyasaland scenes.

Collection of 'oilette' postcards of Nyasaland scenes published by Raphael Tuck and Sons for the British Empire Exhibition 1924, from original paintings by D.L. Constantinides.

Collection of loose monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Nyasaland, published for the British Empire Exhibition 1924.

Collection of loose monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Nyasaland.

Collection of loose monochrome postcards of Nyasaland, published by 'Public Relations Office, Zomba, Nyasaland'.

A landscape view showing hills in the background. The typescript catalogue states that this photograph was taken in Tanzania. However, no trace can be found of a Nyika in Tanzania. It may possibly be in Malawi, as there is a Nyika National Park and Plateau close to Lake Nyasa which is the likely location of the photograph adjacent to this on the album page.

A view showing two people on hands and knees on a beach. The caption continues: 'scraping salt deposit from the beach'. The typescript catalogue states that this photograph was taken in Tanzania. However, no trace can be found of a Nyika in Tanzania. It may possibly be in Malawi, as there is a Nyika National Park and Plateau close to Lake Nyasa which is the likely location of the photograph adjacent to this on the album page.