Africa (continent)
Found in 20095 Collections and/or Records:
Skukuza Bridge, 1968-02
The majority of these were taken in the north of the province; at Magoebaskoof (two visits); Tzaneen (including a sequence showing sisal growing and processing); Vendaland in the extreme north and a few coming south to Orhigstad and Graskop. A group taken at Mala Mala camp is assumed to be in the Transvaal, though the precise location has not been found. The section concludes with a visit to a fishing lodge at Dulstroom in December 1969.
Slack water dam at Amani, 1900 - 1909
117 x 82 mm. Showing the completed dam with water pouring over the top and with a man and woman on a rocky outcrop in front of the weir.
Slackwater dam at Amani, 1900 - 1909
105 x 78 mm. Showing a group of five Europeans sitting on boulders beside the Sigi River, with the slackwater dam and weir in the background.
Slatin Pasha and Col. Sir F. Wingate, K.C.M.G, 1898
117 x 138 mm. A view showing Rudolf Slatin and Colonel Wingate standing together some time after the former's escape from the Mahdi. Slatin, who had returned to the Sudan at Gordon's invitation in 1879, was Governor of Darfur until his capture by the Mahdi in December 1883. He escaped from imprisonment at Omdurman in February 1895, largely through Wingate's efforts. Slatin later worked during the campaign as Wingate's Assistant Director of Intelligence.
Slave market place, Zanzibar [historic title], 1860-08-17 - 1860-09-25
Sleeping sickness, 1908 - 1912
168 x 120 mm. Showing patients seated or lying in a village banana plantation.
[Sleeping sickness and starvation, Buvuma Island 1902], 1902
157 x 112 mm. View showing a large group of Africans suffering from a combination of sleeping sickness and starvation on Buvuma Island at the northern end of Lake Victoria. Dr. Christy was a member of the 1902 Commission sent to investigate outbreaks of sleeping sickness in Busoga.
[Sleeping Sickness Commission members, Congo 1903-1904], 1903 - 1904
102 x 76 mm. A view showing the four members of the Congo Sleeping Sickness Commission standing in front of a cage covered in gauze, presumably built to store captured tsetse flies. The figures are, from left to right, Dr John Lancelot Todd (1876-1949), Dr Inge Heiberg, representing the Congo Government on the Commission, Cuthbert Christy and Dr Joseph Everett Dutton (1874-1905). Photographer unknown.
Sleeping Sickness Commission notes, 1902-09-04 - 1903-01-18
Nineteen loose leaves recording the distribution of filariae in the places Christy surveyed.
[Sleeping sickness education, c.1940], 1940
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Local officials are employed by the Sleeping Sickness Service in propaganda work in the village. They are expected to deal with health measures, the issue and cultivation of new or improved seeds, care of fruit and other trees, management of livestock and methods of soil conservation, animal health and hygiene. The head of a compound is here seen listening intently to two members of the Propaganda team'.
Sleeping sickness experiment is pattern for progress in rural Africa, 1940 - 1959
126 x 115 mm. Showing land being cleared of vegetation at the edge of a lake. The caption on the reverse reads: 'Throughout the area selected for resettlement, protective clearing of the tsetse breeding places had to be carried out. Large gangs of paid labour are necessary to carry out new clearance but maintenance work is largely under-taken by the people on a communal basis. It is found that satisfactory maintenance can be achieved if each adult male gives four days' labour a year'.
Sleeping sickness experiments (Zanzibar?), 1905 - 1948
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.
Sleeping sickness patients at Leopoldville [i.e. Kinshasa] waiting for their ration 1903, 1903
99 x 74 mm (mounted on card). A view showing a row of emaciated Africans facing the photographer while waiting for their ration of Kwanga (Casava bread).
[Sleeping Sickness Service clinic, c.1940], 1940
Showing patients queueing to be treated at an open-air clinic. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Curative treatment for Sleeping Sickness must go hand in hand with the attack on the breeding places of the tsetse'.
[Sleeping sickness service survey in the Anchau Corridor, c.1940], 1940
[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902
110 x 155 mm. A rear view of an African showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.
[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902
111 x 155 mm. A rear view of two emaciated Africans showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.
[Sleeping sickness sores, probably at Buvuma 1902], 1902
109 x 154 mm. A view showing an emaciated African seated on the ground, his body covered with the deep sores developed in the later stages of the disease.
Slessor House Group 1955, 1955
165 x 110 mm.
[Slessor House Group] 1957, 1957
160 x 115 mm. (dated, not attributed, but clearly Slessor).
Slessor House Group 1959, 1959
215 x 165 mm.
Slippe, Asirifi, Owusu, Bekoe, 1938 - 1939
85 x 60 mm.
Slope from Devil's Head to Cape Town Road ... 22d Nov. 1866, 1866-11
295 x 229 mm. A view from the same position as Y3059A/14, and forming a continuation of it, showing the lower slopes of Devil's Peak with Alex Breda's house in the foreground. The remainder of the caption reads '... Looking north with part of The Flats in the distance, taken from Wynberg Hill (Silver trees in front)...'.
Slow bicycle race, Athletics Sports, Cooper’s Institute Ground, 1905-06-26
95 x 70 mm. A view showing the slow bicycle race in progress at the celebration Athletics Sports.
Small Basuto herd boy, 1930 - 1950
133 x 80 mm. Although uncredited in this album, an identical photograph credited to Killie Campbell is held in an album at the Killie Campbell Africana Library under the reference Album D34/001-197.Basutoland Customs.BRN 310846.