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Showing Jackson and James Martin at the entrance to one of the Elgon Caves, with creepers hanging down over the mouth and a small hut in the foreground. Duplicate of Y30468K/67.

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155 x 112 mm. Showing Jackson and James Martin at the entrance to one of the Elgon Caves, with creepers hanging down over the mouth and a small hut in the foreground.

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200 x 157 mm. A duplicate of Y30468G/2.

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The postcard does not have a publisher's name printed on it but is of similar style to PC Kenya/13-18 which are by Swift Press.

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'This Wanderobo hunter sat on the stone which steadies the stick which marks the Equator (I used to think just such a stick marked the N Pole). He also has only a skin on for garment. A quiver at his back. A knife at his waist. The skin over his shoulders was very stiff and dark and difficult to express in drawing.'

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs by Ernest Gedge comprising:(1) 81 prints, probably made in the 1920s. All these prints relate to the Jackson/Gedge Expedition of 1888-91 (see below). 80 are from negatives in the Royal Geographical Society and one from the negatives now in RCS (iii). Some new prints were obtained from the Royal Geographical Society in place of originals which had been stolen.(2) 1 print not in the above collection and taken from the RGS negative.(3) 11 glass...

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Archives relating to Lanning's work in Kenya and Sierra Leone, and as a colonial administrator in Uganda.

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201 x 155 mm. A duplicate of Y30468H/1.

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124 x 46 mm. Two-part panorama.

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A view showing two donkey's tethered to a post on the beach with a sailing boat in the background. The donkey's are both laying down.

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Showing two rows of workers in a vegetable drying plant peeling and inspecting potatoes for dehydration. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The cleaned potatoes are kept under water to prevent discolouration before processing'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...

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Close-up view of two maize cobs, the large one the result of proper fertilisation, the small one grown in exhausted soil.

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180 x 160 mm. Aerial view of the landscape.

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108 x 152 mm. (modern print from RGS negative). View looking along the river cliffs. See Gedge Diary for 10th January 1890.

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155 x 113 mm. Gedge’s diary again records photographing the group in his diary. ‘The caravan halted on reaching the top and I photographed them before commencing the descent.’

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

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Showing Jackson crouching gun in hand next to the dead buffalo. This photograph is not mentioned in Gedge’s diary but on January 20th both he and Jackson shot bull buffaloes and the background scenery of the photograph resembles that seen in Y30468K/60. The following day Gedge’s diary records that he was ‘busy skinning birds and washing photos’; these are probably the pictures referred to. A duplicate of Y30468K/61 and Y30468K(LS)1/22.

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Showing Jackson crouching gun in hand next to the dead buffalo. This photograph is not mentioned in Gedge’s diary, but on January 20th both he and Jackson shot bull buffaloes, and the background scenery of the photograph resembles that seen in Y30468K/60. The following day Gedge’s diary records that he was ‘busy skinning birds and washing photos’; these are probably the pictures referred to. See also LS/23. A duplicate of Y30468K/61.

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

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Showing a man seated at a table smoking with food and drinks laid out on the table.

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A view showing two sailing boats resting on the sand at low tide with a water channel and land behind.

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155 x 205 mm. glossy print.

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154 x 205 mm. glossy print.

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113 x 155 mm. A view looking along a narrow gorge on the river with various kinds of fern growing on the rock face on either bank. A photograph taken on the same occasion as Y30468K/18 and Y30468K/19.