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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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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.

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,...

Scope and Contents An album of prints, measuring 200 x 154 mm, recording a tour of North Eastern State, Nigeria, by Sir Cyril Pickard. Some have pencilled captions by Sir Cyril.The photographs show Sir Cyril in conference with state commissioners and other officials; visiting industrial and development projects, notably the Lake Chad Development Scheme (10-12, 14 and 16-19) and attending social gatherings. Lady Pickard appears in many of the photographs. The album was presented to him by the...

Scope and Contents A scrapbook album containing prints of various sizes by various photographers (including Jose Anjo). The majority of the prints are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Only a few photographs relate to Northern Nigeria (prints 4-17 and 53), the majority dating from Bell's period as Governor of the Leeward Islands. The most extensively documented event in the album is the visit of Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig Holstein to...

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Medal commemorating self-government of Northern Nigeria.

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Part of an incomplete notebook containing material for Bell’s memoirs, including suggestions for titles and notes of projected subjects or anecdotes. It begins with page 150 (30 sheets).

Scope and Contents This file contains source material that Bell collected for writing articles. The notes include material on superstition and folklore, tropical sanitation, the encouragement of native arts and crafts, fish, insects and animal behaviour. Among the notes are the published minutes of a joint meeting of the Royal Empire Society and the Royal African Society, held to discuss an address by Elspeth Huxley on the future of East Africa, a brief article on divination from ‘Notes Africaines’, July...

Scope and Contents This file contains source material that Bell collected for the composition of his memoirs, drawn from his official career or travels during his retirement. It includes notes on memorable people, places and experiences, or subjects of particular interest. The file also preserves two poems by Bell, the text of a speech that he gave at a West Indian Club dinner in 1909, correspondence regarding his tour of the Far East during 1925-26, the text of a lecture ‘Some aspects of colonial...

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Each slide shows a different inselberg, i.e. an isolated hill in a hot dry region. Glass.

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155 x 108 mm. glossy print with copy.

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80 x 105 mm.

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208 x 139 mm. glossy print. Location unidentified.

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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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A collection of loose photographs, black and white (some matt, some gloss), of various sizes, taken by Elsie May Weston or Gladys M. Pearce Simmonds. Some photographs have been annotated on the verso and, where this is the case, the details have been noted. Many of the annotations suggest educational use.

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Showing the single storey stone building under construction. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'It is proposed here to run a Producers' Co-op as well as a Consumers'. The pencilled annotation additionally contains 'This is a departure from previous shops [the rest of the sentence is illegible]'.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'All the men women and children turned out to clear this site. Car has come by a 2 mile road built by voluntary labour. In background: improved latrines, machinery shed, co-op shop under construction. In foreground: foundations of village reading room'. The pencilled annotation has the following additional information 'this road goes another 12 miles to Obinofia Ndiagu (an offshoot of Obinofia [sic]'.

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102 x 59 mm. A general view of the large settlement of thatched huts at Obudu, situated on a plain with hills in the background.

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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'.