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102 x 58 mm. Showing a row of thatched houses at Okigwi.

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108 x 66 mm. A dark print showing the two-storey Officers' Mess of the 1st South Nigerian Regiment at Calabar, with a row of small cannon ranged in front of the verandah.

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102 x 59 mm. Showing the thatched huts of the officers' quarters built on a large open space at Okigwi.

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102 x 59 mm. A distant view of the thatched huts of the Civil lines at Ogoja.

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102 x 59 mm. Showing the thatched huts of the West African Frontier Force lines at Ogoja with a group of soldiers on parade at the right of the print.

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Collection of 91 glass negatives, 106 x 80 mm; 3 negatives on film, 90 x 60 mm; and 3 modern prints, 150 x 120 mm. Many of the negatives lack descriptive captions. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Reading room on left. Sub-dispensary in centre. Co-op consumer shop on right'. The pencilled annotation adds 'Joseph Amalu Family head and primus inter pares [first among equals] seen walking towards camera'.

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Interior view of ward.

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The pencilled annotation on the reverse reads 'Maternity Home. Built by voluntary labour. Village subscribed about £160. Co-op shop provided £65. N.A. [Native Administration] provided £100 for roof [word covered by tape] 30 for [rest of annotation covered by tape]'.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Road signs put up in vernacular in Westermann script'. A pencilled annotation offers a translation of the two words appearing on the road sign - 'Be careful. Children-in-arms'.

Scope and Contents The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Bush in background. This formerly covered whole site. Ogwofia consists of a number of quarters scattered about ¼ to ½ mile from each other. This piece of land is the most central point. Foreground. Sub-dispensary. (cement and timer [sic] provided by N.A.[Native Administration], mudblocks and labour provided free by village. Middle distance. Bricks for erection of the village maternity home. Background. Reading room'. The pencilled...

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The title is both typed and annotated on the reverse.

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Showing the incinerator (in the form of a mud kiln) in the centre of the village. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Other buildings on left - model latrines and Reading Room'. The pencilled annotation adds 'Incinerator just completed Rubbish dump extreme right with maternity[?] home under construction behind'.

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Showing villagers moulding clay under the supervision of a European administrator. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Bricks when burnt were found to be too soft, so village bought bricks from Enugu'. The pencilled annotation adds 'European in background Mr E R Chadwick[?] District Officer'.

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Exterior view of the corrugated-iron latrines. A typewritten caption (which duplicates most of a pencilled annotation) on the reverse reads 'They are for propaganda purposes to persuade individuals to use bore-hole latrines with washable cement seats'. The annotation differs only in the addition of the word 'portable' after the word 'cement'.

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A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.

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155 x 115 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

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119 x 83 mm. glossy print with copy and two enlargements.

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119 x 82 mm. glossy print with copy and two enlargements.

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82 x 119 mm. glossy print with two copies and two enlargements.

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155 x 115 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

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80 x 79 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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80 x 79 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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80 x 79 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.