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243 x 193 mm. A view showing a gold prospectors’ camp in a forest clearing with European and native workers grouped for the photographer in front of tents slung over branches between the trees. One man at the rear of the group displays a Union Jack. Unsigned, but probably by Julio Siza.

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243 x 193 mm. A view showing prospectors at work panning for alluvial gold beside a river. Unsigned photograph.

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184 x 106 mm. A view looking along High Street in the west of the city and showing the two halves of the street divided by a canal with grassy-banks (see Y307A/72).

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242 x 191 mm. A view showing an Indian settlement on the Masuruni River. The photograph shows a group of Indians and one European posed in front of thatched huts in a clearing in the forest. Photograph unsigned but probably by Julio Siza.

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107 x 150 mm. A studio portrait, with painted backdrop, showing an Indian youth sitting on a rough stone seat. Beside him two stuffed parrots sit on a perch.

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97 x 137 mm. A full length portrait showing a chief in ceremonial robes and carrying a shield and spear.

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99 x 150 mm. A view showing three Indians (two women and a man) standing in a line while being photographed. A white sheet has been hung up behind them as a backcloth.

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171 x 235 mm. A view showing an Indian grave in a forest clearing. The corpse has been wrapped in palm leaves and tied onto a crude wooden trestle. The wrapped corpses of three more Indians can be seen in the background.

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237 x 192 mm. A view looking along a tree-shaded path in the Botanical Gardens at Vlissengen in the east of Georgetown.

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248 x 199 mm. A view showing the Georgetown Town Hall in High Street, a mock-gothic affair with a decorative tower, completed in 1889. See also Y307A/76.

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108 x 162 mm. Another view of the Town Hall. Some sort of ceremony is about to take place, with a small crowd in front of the Town Hall gates and one or two flags and banners in evidence.

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184 x 108 mm. A view looking along Upper Water Street, which runs parallel to the Demerara River in the west of the city, and showing commercial premises. With a horse tram in the foreground.

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185 x 123 mm. A view looking north along Water Street from the tower of the Stabroek Market. The Demerara River can be seen at the left of the picture in the distance.

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Some relate to West Africa.

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155 x 186 mm. Britain’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Duncan Sandys, greeting British Guiana’s Prime Minister Doctor Cheddi Jagan, at the opening of the British Guiana Independence Conference at Lancaster House, London.

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13 sheets.

Scope and Contents Copies of articles by AFB as Chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom [later Liberation] on subjects including: visits to India, including the famine, progress in modernisation and hostilities with Pakistan over Kashmir; the future of Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; the independence movement in Africa; the Vietnam War; the future of Mauritius; the Government's restriction of Commonwealth immigration; the state of the United Nations; the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the...

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From Rawlinson. MS. A 175 folio 149.

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203 x 138 mm. View looking along the Essequibo riverbank towards the moored boats of the party, with porters and Europeans posed for the photographer.

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A collection of loose photographs, most measuring approximately 200 x 155 mm., with comprehensive captions pasted on to the back of the prints. The collection includes views from various parts of the country as well as photographs illustrating education, industry and agriculture.

Scope and Contents Arranged by area, then by country (including a few which are not members of the Commonwealth):The Mediterranean 30Cyprus 11Gibraltar 3Malta 16Middle East 3Jordan 1Palestine 2Indian Sub-Continent 81General 1Bangladesh 4Bhutan 2India 51Nepal 1Pakistan 16Sri Lanka 6South East Asia 58Brunei 5Indonesia 1Malaysia 43Singapore 9East Asia 33China 3Hong Kong 29Korea ...

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Contains slides recording a visit to Guyana in 1970 though there is no indication whether it was in an official capacity. The earlier slides show aerial views flying inland from the coast, followed by a journey up the Rupununi River to the border with Brazil. The return route was apparently to the north of the outward journey and included a series of aerial photographs of the Kaieteur Falls.

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178 x 117 mm. Showing a kneeling Indian boy holding a large bunch of lilies and was used as a Christmas card by Sir Everard Im Thurn. The mimeographed message on the reverse reads 'Ginger lilies' (Hedychium coronarium). Xmas 1891. With best wishes from Everard F. Im Thurn.' Im Thurn's fine collection of ethnographical photography is in the possession of the Royal Anthropological Institute (of which society he was President 1919-20).

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204 x 139 mm. Group portrait of boatmen employed by the party, posed in front of palm leaf thatched huts.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana [Guyana], Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health. Titles and captions, including the names of...