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201x155mm. Photographic reproduction of an illustrated map of Nigeria bearing the dedication ‘To E.R.J. Hussey C.M.G. Director of Education, Nigeria 1929-1936, from A.D. Power ('Fidus Achates') in memory of many happy days spent together within the confines of this map.’

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,...

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207 x 155 mm. View of Governor Sir Bernard Bourdillon saluting during the celebrations to mark the Coronation of King George VI.

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133 x 84 mm. postcard.

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90 x 90 mm. Showing women carrying pots on their heads stood behind a covered truck in which people are sat.

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160 x 210 mm. Busy market scene. There seem to be many cotton sellers.

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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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201 x 141 mm. Showing a crowded market scene, probably in Calabar, with traders and customers seated or standing in an open sandy square.

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201 x 144 mm. Market scene.

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155 x 100 mm. glossy print with copy.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Until the new market was built at Takalafiya, meat was sold under the most unsanitary [sic] conditions, as can be seen in this picture'.

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112 x 76 mm. glossy print with enlargement.

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112 x 76 mm. glossy print with enlargement.

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112 x 76 mm. glossy print with enlargement.

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112 x 76 mm. glossy print with enlargement.

Scope and Contents From the File: Photographs of masks, dress, dances, musical instruments and prospecting work, accompanied by descriptive captions and notes (82 x 57 mm). Benson introduces the album by writing, 'The photographs and notes which follow were collected during a prospecting trip covering 700 miles mainly in the north of Abakaliki Division, part of the west of Ogoja Division and along the Ogoja-Idoma boundary. The notes etc. refer to the natives, who have not come under the European or outside influence. The...

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210 x 150 mm., mounted 290 x 230 mm. The group shows eight Europeans, of whom Mary Kingsley, Sir Claude and Lady Macdonald, and Roger Casement are identified. For a discussion of the picture, and its dating, see Donald Simpson, ‘Mary Kingsley: a West African Group’ (‘African Affairs’, v 86, no 342, 1987, p 5-6) copies of which are filed with this catalogue and with the plate.

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252 x 202 mm. Modern print of Y3043PP/1.

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105 x 145 mm. on mount. Three-quarters length photograph by W.E. Wright, Forest Gate.

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100 x 130 mm.

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115 x 85 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: Photographs of masks, dress, dances, musical instruments and prospecting work, accompanied by descriptive captions and notes (82 x 57 mm). Benson introduces the album by writing, 'The photographs and notes which follow were collected during a prospecting trip covering 700 miles mainly in the north of Abakaliki Division, part of the west of Ogoja Division and along the Ogoja-Idoma boundary. The notes etc. refer to the natives, who have not come under the European or outside influence. The...

Scope and Contents From the File: Photographs of masks, dress, dances, musical instruments and prospecting work, accompanied by descriptive captions and notes (82 x 57 mm). Benson introduces the album by writing, 'The photographs and notes which follow were collected during a prospecting trip covering 700 miles mainly in the north of Abakaliki Division, part of the west of Ogoja Division and along the Ogoja-Idoma boundary. The notes etc. refer to the natives, who have not come under the European or outside influence. The...

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The Sleeping Sickness Service fully realises that half the battle against disease and ignorance is literacy. Here is a class in progress in the Muslem Elementary School at Takalafiya'.

Scope and Contents Photographs, from a full set of at least fifteen (reference numbers DW 5058-5072), relating to Udi Division. There are some ambiguities in the spelling of place names, but those given in captions on the photographs have been followed.In the Udi Division of Onitsha Province of Nigeria, there is in progress a mass education campaign which is likely to be taken as a model for similar campaigns in other parts of Africa. In Udi, mass literacy is not regarded as an end in itself but is...