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140 x 105 mm.

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140 x 105 mm.

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200 x 150 mm. Scene from the Red Cross Tableaux, 1917. On the left is a woman dressed as ‘Marianne’; on the right, a French Colonial soldier.

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85 x 60 mm. Lake Bosumtwi.

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195 x 145 mm.

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195 x 145 mm. This photograph was taken at the same time as Y30448U/16.

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Y30448G/92 features the same building seen in Y30448G/67.

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The caption continues: 'The size of this huge baobab tree is shown by the forest guard at its foot. The wood is useless for timber, Bawku district.' Swaine provides the note: 'Baobab = Adansonia digitata.'

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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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200 x 150 mm. This ceremony took place on 24 March 1924; surprisingly, there is no account of it in C.K. Williams ‘Achimota: The Early years’, (1962). Guggisberg is seen on a platform as the stone is lowered.

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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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It includes Glover's appointment as Special Commissioner and instructions from the Colonial Office.

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This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

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A letter replying to an enquiry from Carrington regarding the possible constitutional effect of the Ghana/Guinea/Mali union on Ghana.

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This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

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200 x 148mm. Showing the letterboxes at the entrance to the post office directly beneath the tower, with a bank of security lockers in the alcove in the background.

Scope and Contents This file begins in Sept. 1934 with Benson’s employment by East African Concessions Ltd prospecting for gold in western Kenya near Kakamega. He was based at camps at Kibiri, Esikongo and Chebutubu. Photographs documenting the camps and Benson’s work may be found at RCMS 364/2/1. In Oct. 1935, Benson was transferred to Tanganyika, prospecting in the Sanza Concession near Mwanza. During 1936 he was employed as a diamond driller near Geita. In Dec. 1937 Benson joined Gold Coast...

Scope and Contents After being demobilised, Benson returned to work in the West African mining industry. In January 1947 he accepted employment with London and African Mining Trust Ltd in Nigeria, initially based in Sokoto Province. In Sept. 1948 he moved to another mining job within the colony, working for Mines Development Syndicate (West Africa) as a prospector and field superintendent. In late 1950, he began working for Consolidated African Selection Trust in the Gold Coast prospecting for diamonds. He...

Scope and Contents From 1968 to 1973 Benson worked as a mining consultant for the Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources in Ghana, from May 1970 under the Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan as a Technical Assistance Officer. In June 1971, he was responsible for the reorganisation of the Diamond Digger Scheme. Benson’s letters describe inspecting mines, settling disputes over concessions, the running of mining camps, labour relations, illegal mining, diggers’ licenses, the general conduct of the...

Scope and Contents File containing letters, many to Lady Smedley, from Richard Nunoo (Director, Ghana National Museum), 17 March 1968, 24 December 1970; Emma Jiagge (Centre for Civic Education, Accra); the Baptist World Alliance in Ghana; Peggy Appiah, 12 May 1968, 7 April 1969, 13 January, 4 March 1971; Judith Dexter (wife of Barry Dexter, Australian Ambassador in Laos, 1964-8), 20 October 1967; Jay Popplewell (Cadbury and Fry, Accra); L. Stanley James (physician and researcher), 28 May 1968; Jane Matthews...

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions. The slides appear to have been gathered for lecture purposes and are not necessarily on the work of the CMS. They relate to various parts of the continent.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.