Scope and Contents Papers, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, and postcards, mostly relating to Smedley’s time in Ghana, but also on affairs in other African countries such as Southern Rhodesia and Kenya.The file includes letters to Smedley from Dorothy Hodgkin (Institute of African Studies at University of Ghana), 9 December 1965; from S.A. Sykes (Deputy HC in Ghana), 4 February 1971; from Sir Edward Warner (British ambassador at Tunis), 24 March 1968; from F.H. Tate (business mission to Ghana), 18...

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Material relating to Glover's role as Special Commissioner during the Second Anglo-Asante War, including a copy of his oath. Most of the file is comprised of numbered loose sheets torn out of a notebook. Their subjects relate to the organisation of the Volta Expedition and include intelligence gathering, transportation, logistical support, and efforts to recruit African auxiliaries.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...

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Perhaps a training course at Achimota. 140x115 mm.

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The caption continues: 'The heavy trucks in the centre are Obeche 12' x 12" x 6" for seasoning. No. 3 page 4.'

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'On the plains to the east of Accra, there is a serious water shortage both for stock and human beings. The dam built on the farm has proved very satisfactory, and in spite of the considerable surface evaporation, the dairy and other herds of cattle can be well supplied with water throughout the season'.

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The annotation on the negative envelope reads '1/50 @ f5.0. Super xx. Pawmpawnya: fetish palaver. 27.8.41'. The negative envelope is numbered '37'.

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The annotation on the negative envelope reads '1/50 @ f5.0. Super xx. Pawmpawnya: fetish palaver. 27.8.41'. The negative envelope is numbered '37'.

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The annotation on the negative envelope reads '1/50 @ f5.0. Super xx. Pawmpawnya: fetish palaver. 27.8.41'. The negative envelope is numbered '37'.

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The annotation on the negative envelope reads '1/50 @ f5.0. Super xx. Pawmpawnya: fetish palaver. 27.8.41'. The negative envelope is numbered '37'.

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The annotation on the negative envelope reads '1/50 @ f5.0. Super xx. Pawmpawnya: fetish palaver. 27.8.41'. The negative envelope is numbered '37'.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The revenue contributed to the State Treasury from the market is eight thousand, five hundred pounds per year. The women pay one penny per day for the privilege of setting up a stall in the market place. This stall holder collects her ticket from the State Treasury collector who sits in a straw shelter at the entrance to the market'.

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Field notebooks, notes, draft and published articles, and audio-visual material relating for the most part to Roberts's research on education in Ghana. Together with a series of photographs and slides documenting aspects of life in Sefwi Wiawso and Roberts's time in Ghana and Nigeria.

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160 x 110 mm.

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A file including copies of the Commonwealth Relations Office ‘Post report on Ghana’ (June, 1963) and ‘Ghana: 10 great years, 1951-1960’ (Accra, 1960), telephone directories, and correspondence with R. Walker, Acting High Commissioner, the CRO and others (circa 100 sheets).

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Employment contract as an Office Assistant and Official Reporter in the Secretariat, Nigeria; pension documents; Gold Coast driving license; certificate of thanks for voluntary work with the Royal West Africa Frontier Force during the Second World War; programme for concert by the Gold Coast Police Band; a poem on the colonial service; and two Christmas cards.

Scope and Contents A collection of albums relating to Canham's career in the Gold Coast. Like his papers, it is a partial collection.Y30448O is an album of snapshots of his early days in the Colony.Y30448P includes some photographs relating to his career and also some cuttings and other historical items.Y30448Q is chiefly of official photographs of the period of Sir Alan Burns' Governorship, 1941-47.Y30448R is of the last stages to Independence and of Governors Creasy (1948-49) and...

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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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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads '(Peto is a native beer brewed from millet). They pay one penny tax on every pot they sell, each pot containing roughly three gallons'.

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90 x 130 mm. Dr James Aggrey was born in West Africa in 1875 and studied in the United States. He was a member of two commissions of enquiry into African education in 1920 and 1923, and was appointed Assistant Vice Principal when Achimota College was founded. He died in 1927.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Educated at University College, Oxford, he was in England throughout the blitz. At Oxford he took Modern Greats, i.e. Philosophy, politics and economics. Hereturned to the Gold Coast to do research work in Sociology, but was offered and accepted the post of Assistant District Commissioner'.

Scope and Contents Numbers 1-64 (205 x 155 mm) feature a reception given for the Smedleys by Kwesi Armah, Ghanaian High Commissioner in London, in Feb. 1964. Only the first two images are captioned.Numbers 65-66 (205 x 155 mm) were taken during a visit by the Smedleys to the Cocoa Institute in Kumasi in May 1964, and is accompanied by a newspaper articleNumbers 67-69 (128 x 80 mm) feature a ceremony at the Government Secondary Technical School, Takoradi, in July 1966Numbers 70-71 (205 x...

Scope and Contents A collection of prints and negatives chiefly taken by Frank E. Joselin while on the staff of Achimota College, Ghana, between Jan. 1930 and Nov. 1947. This material falls into five groups: aerial views of Achimota taken in Jan.1931, later views including some taken from the tower, scenes following the Accra earthquake of 23 June 1939, the visit of the Asantehene in 1946, and portraits of the college’s first principal Rev. Alexander Garden Fraser and Assistant Vice Principal J.E.K. Aggrey. ...

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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.