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Diaries, official papers, correspondence and photographs

Scope and Contents 140 x 190 mm. on mount. Studio portrait, seated. Signed and dated ‘James Crawford Maxwell 4 July 1925’. Sir James Crawford Maxwell (1869-1932) doctor, lawyer, and administrator served as a District Medical Officer in Sierra Leone from 1894 to 1900, when he became a District Commissioner. He was a First Class Resident in Nigeria from 1914 to 1920, Colonial Secretary, Sierra Leone 1920-1922, and Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast from then until 1927, when he was appointed Governor 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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85 x 60 mm. Empire Day.

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'Probably a site office'.

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Three sketches of the suburb of Kumasi.

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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'.

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165 x 110 mm.

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160 x 115 mm. (dated, not attributed, but clearly Slessor).

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85 x 60 mm.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of 197 negatives and 6 modern prints. The negatives measure 60 x 60 mm, save for 160-163 which are 35 mm. Apart from nos. 60-112 which are in a negative album, they are all in small envelopes with the subject written on by Mr Cansdale, some have also been numbered by Cansdale. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...

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An album of photographs of Sierra Leone and Ghana.

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs in an album, plus loose photographs and postcards. The photographs have been arranged in four groups; the album, loose prints, miscellaneous postcards, and British Empire Exhibition postcards. Unless otherwise indicated, the captions not in brackets were supplied by Miss Grace Smyly. The captions may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.Plates 1-33...

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A collection including a black album, containing 29 photographs and with eight blank sides, and loose prints and negatives, relating to the career of Sir Crampton Smyly. There are typed captions which have been used as the basis of catalogue entries. As well as photographs of the visit to Sierra Leone of the Duke of Connaught on 15 December 1910, there are numerous photographs of events of 1929, the year in which Sir Crampton Smyly retired.

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73 x 110 mm.

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85 x 60 mm. Monkey on basin, Attabubu.

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195 x 145 mm. A group of African soldiers in the foreground includes some wounded and disabled. The main parade can be seen in the background. Soldiers from the Gold Coast served in Togo, the Cameroons and East Africa. See ‘The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign’ by Sir Hugh Clifford (1920) and H.A. Gailey Clifford (1982) pp. 84-86. The photograph was probably taken on the return of the Regiment in September 1918, but the parade is not mentioned in either book.

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200 x 150 mm. Undated but same setting as Y30448I/196.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'A uniform maintenance ration is given to all cows as they are of a uniform size and weight'.

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Showing a group of girls in conversation at the entrance to the Girls' Boarding House.

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Showing a small group of girls in conversation.

Scope and Contents ‘South African Aid to Britain Fund Overseas travel parties for Youth. West Africa Tour. November 1955 - January 1956.’ Includes a list of the personnel of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister in 1948 to administer the sum allocated from the South African Aid to Britain Fund to encourage youth travel overseas. 'The tour was to give a representative group of British youth experience of conditions of life and work in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, to bring them into contact with the...

Scope and Contents 215 x 160mm. Back row, standing: Osie Kofi; (Chief Clerk); N.S. Elliot (San. Supt); E. Gross (Asst. Town Clerk); Councillor J.A Opoku (Asantehene’s Representative)Middle row, standing: Councillors. A.W. Davies (Official member); S. Prempeh (Zongo Ext. Ward); W.W. Taylor (Old Town Ward); A. Coromah (Zongo Ward); C. Kessie (Asante Ward); G. Kadai (Fante Ward)Front row, sitting: Councillor Hon. B.D Addai (Ahensie Ward); F.W. Beecham (Town Clerk); R.H. Canham...

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140x90 mm.