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155 x 201 mm. Mr. Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, hands the report of the Independence Conference to Mr. L.F.S. Burnham, Prime Minister of British Guiana and leader of the People’s National Congress, for this signature at Lancaster House, London England.

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181 x 152 mm. Mr. P.S.D. D’Aguiar, leader of the United Force in British Guiana, makes his final speech at the Independence Conference held at Lancaster House in London.

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155 x 203 mm. The Prime Minister of British Guiana, Doctor Cheddi Jagan (right), talking with Mr. B.H. Benn, Minister of Natural Resources, before the opening of the British Guiana Independence Conference at Lancaster House, London.

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208 x 165 mm. A view from the Rio de la Plata looking towards the town of Buenos Aires. Photograph by Samuel Boote.

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151 x 206 mm. The picture shows left to right: - Mr. L. Mpagi and Mr. M. Kintu during the final meeting between the two Buganda Lukiko delegations and the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox – Boyd) at the Colonial Office on Wednesday afternoon (July 20, 1955) when an agreed communiqué on the results of his discussion with them and the agreed texts of the new draft agreements for Buganda were initialled.

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204 x 139 mm. View looking across the river towards the party’s camp on the sandy foreshore of the island. The name Alexandra was given by the travellers themselves to this island just south of the junction of the Essequibo and Potaro Rivers.

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200 x 138 mm. View from the river shallows looking towards the moored boats and the camp beyond, with Europeans and porters posed among the hammocks at the water’s edge.

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205 x 150 mm.

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77 x 55 mm.

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55 x 77 mm

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[In cabin].

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Albums of black and white photographs from the tour of 1954 interleaved with typescript details of the itinerary and inserted press cuttings, postcards, maps and other items.

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A view of Carol and Margaret Clement playing croquet in the garden of Government House.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...

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204 x 138 mm. View looking along the Potaro River towards the cataract, with jungle covered mountains in the distance. Poor condition.

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138 x 104 mm. General view looking along the River Potaro towards the cataract.

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110 x 165 mm.

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105 x 80 mm.

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105 x 80 mm.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...

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107 x 156 mm.

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Series of off prints and cuttings by Davis from the 'Weekly Argosy', Georgetown, published during 1908.

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115 x 80 mm. A view of 'Charity' the horse with cattle in the background.

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115 x 80 mm. A view of 'Mungo' the dog laying in the grass before 'Charity' the horse, with cattle in the background.