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Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

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Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

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140 x 117 mm. Showing a European officer instructing Africans in the use of a drill sowing machine. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set Intro. No. 456). Drill sowing gives each plant a fair chance; but these machines will only be found on the comparitively few areas where mechanical cultivation is possible without increasing the erosion risk. Maybe, when the land is improved in some years' time, they will be used more'.

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165 x 117 mm. Showing a student at an agricultural college spreading fertiliser from the back of a bullock drawn metal cart. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set Intro. No.456). (21). Fertiliser is new too. Spread superphosphate on the college land is something everyone has to learn. Before the end of the course every student will have seen with his own eyes the benefits which result. Then it will be his job to tell the farmers in the area'.

Scope and Contents This file includes a programme, itinerary and memo book for Lady Smedley’s visit to Abesim, 12-14 March 1967, together with draft copy of a letter by Lady Smedley, on behalf of the Abesim traditional council, requesting the establishment of a girls’ boarding school; letter to Lady Smedley from British Council in Accra regarding establishment of school, 18 March 1967; letter from Lady Smedley to Sunyani urban council on boarding school proposals, 22 March 1967; draft text (annotated) by Lady...

Scope and Contents The file includes a letter thanking Lady Smedley for her donation to the Mampong Babies’ Home, 18 July 1978, with May 1978 newsletter; two small notebooks, one entitled ‘Abesim’, containing entries by Lady Smedley on her visit there in December 1966, the other ‘Tour Notebook’, contains notes from her reading on Ghana; letter from Lady Smedley regarding church missionary allocation to Abesim health centre, 19 January 1982; photocopies of journal articles on the Akan of Ghana, resulting from a...

Scope and Contents Photograph album, measuring 260 x 240 mm, containing 76 black-and-white and colour photographs of various sizes (all annotated), documenting the Smedleys visits to Abesim in October 1967 and July 1980. There are images of welcome ceremonies, the ceremony of the Black Stools, the Chief, Elders and Queen Mother, the Palace, bands, schools and schoolchildren, the water works, a local pottery, the Women’s Group, a sawmill, the Cocoa Marketing Bungalow, and of a visit of a party from Abesim to...

Scope and Contents This file includes a programme and itinerary of the Smedleys’ visit to Abesim, 29-31 July 1980; welcome address by Barima Ansu Gyeabour; Lady Smedley’s response to welcome, 30 July 1980; lists of Smedleys’ gift of sports equipment for Abesim community; letter to Smedley from R. Michael James (Deputy HC Ghana, 1980-83), 23 July 1980; telegram to Lady Smedley from Peggy Appiah, 18 April 1980; telegram from Richard Nunoo (Ghana Museums and Monuments Board), (1980?); letters to Lady Smedley from...

Scope and Contents Greetings and Christmas cards, mostly from Ghanaians; newspaper cuttings (from 1960s, mostly 1967) reporting Lady Smedley’s involvement with Abesim; correspondence relating to the Abesim eye hospital including letters from Lady Smedley to Thomas A. Brient (Archdeacon of Sunyani) and Nana Ansu Gyeabour regretting that she and Smedley cannot attend the official commissioning (7 November 1995); Lady Smedley’s correspondence relating to the eye hospital with Bishop J.K. Dadson (Bishop of Sunyani...

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This is a lengthy account by Lady Smedley describing her involvement with Abesim. It includes a map, table of contents and bibliography (116 pages). A copy accompanies the original. The file also contains ‘The Story of the Stool’ (3 pages).

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This file contains a letter by Lady Smedley to the BBC inquiring whether it would be interested in two scripts she had written on Abesim for its schools’ programmes (22 June 1972), with reply from G.W. Scott (Chief Assistant, School Broadcasts) regretting its inability to take them up (28 June 1972). Drafts of the scripts, ‘The Story of Abesim’ and an account of the Abesim Queen Mother enstoolment ceremony, are included.

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Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

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Taken at the Aburi Botanical Gardens.

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Postcard published by L. Schaller, Stuttgart. Copyright Basel Mission. Marked A to D on front, with key written on back: ‘A. Where we land. B. Basel Mission Depot now Commonwealth Trust Ltd. C. Church. D. Bishop’s Bungalow.’

Scope and Contents The caption on the reverse reads: 'Accra from Government House, Gold Coast. Accra is the capital of the Gold Coast and the scene depicted is that of the bay around which the major part of the town is built. Off the end of the breakwater can be seen the hundreds of canoes which supply the town and hinterland with fish'.Guggisberg stated: 'The water-colour showing the view from the Castle in the early morning is, to my mind, the most fascinating of the whole of Miss Cheesman's...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Many images of woodland and logging scenes. The original numbering of the images has been followed.

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A collection of uncaptioned loose prints, measuring approximately 200 x 145 mm. The collection was exhibited in the Gold Coast section of the British Empire Exhibition 1924 and were deposited at the Royal Colonial Institute on the instruction of Major W.T.E. Wallace, Acting Postmaster General of the Gold Coast (see letter accompanying prints). Prints 11 and 12 show other Post Offices in the colony. Photographer unknown.

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200 x 135 mm. View of the enclosure, with Sir Hugh Clifford on a balcony watching the race through binoculars.

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'No. 111' printed on bottom right corner.