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A coloured card of a coat of arms. University College, Port Harcourt, was established in 1975 and became a university in its own right in 1977.

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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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210 x 155 mm. View of Barnard and a male hunter sitting in a canoe armed with shotgun and rifle.

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154 x 107 mm. glossy print.

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195 x 150. View of the sand, trees and surf.

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111 x 122 mm. glossy print with two copies.

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113 x 155 mm. glossy print with copy and 56 mm. negative.

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Showing Africans posed in the open grass square at the centre of Takalafiya. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The town of Takalafiya was planned and built round a large grass square in the centre of which is a cement-lined well - one of the five new wells in the town. These new wells are a vast improvement on the old with adequate supplies which caused guinea worm infection. The photograph was taken from the top of a mosque'.

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View looking over the central grass square towards one of the residential compounds. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The newly planned town of Takalafiya, built to take the 600 inhabitants evacuated when wide streets were driven through the slums of Anchau. Compounds are spaced round a central grass square in the centre of which stands a cement-lined well'.

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206 x 148 mm. A view looking down on Lokoja.

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207 x 138 mm. A view from a grassy hillside looking down towards the Calabar waterfront and river.

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207 x 141 mm. A view looking down a street in Duke Town (the African quarter of Calabar) with a row of thatched houses on the left and the waterfront and Calabar River visible in the background. The tower of the Duke Town Church can be seen projecting above a clump of trees at the right of centre.

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Showing a woman spinning cotton in front of a mud and thatch hut in Anchau. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The hub of the resettlement scheme is the town of Anchau. In 1939 the foul and congested slums of the town were cleaned up. Three wide roads were driven through the town and the 600 people thus dispossessed were moved to a new site - Takalafiy, three-quarters of a mile away. The picture shows a woman of Anchau slums before the town was cleaned up'.

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108 x 63 mm. A general view of rows of thatched huts and a few tents at Ishiago.

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103 x 61 mm. A general view of the civil station of Okigwi, with three African women walking along the road in the foreground.

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80 x 54 mm. glossy print with 115 x 72 mm. copy.

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154 x 118 mm. glossy print with 84 x 59 mm. glossy print. Location unidentified.

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103 x 62 mm. An uninformative view of hills in the Okigwi area.

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103 x 61 mm. A general view of the rows of thatched houses comprising the Southern Nigeria Regiment lines at Okigwi, with the parade ground at the right of the print.

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103 x 61 mm. A view of the military lines from the parade ground.

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102 x 59 mm. A general view of the military encampment.

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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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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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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The slides are 25 x 25 mm. Y3011KKK(GS)1-12 are boxed with Y3011WW Eastham. The remainder are in three separate slide boxes.