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120 x 165 mm. Three quarter length portrait.

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120 x 165 mm. Three quarter length portrait.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'For ten years Sister Smith, qualified nurse and health visitor trained at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, has made the journey every morning from her home at Muthaiga on the outskirts of Nairobi Makongeni six miles out on the plain. Sister Smith sees the ante-natal cases in the morning of whom there may be twenty or more. She has a chat with them about...

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Beans are rgowing[sic] between the rows of maize, and provide a good soil cover'.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

Scope and Contents Collection of photographs on 64 album sheets with 24 loose prints. 225 relate to British East Africa (Kenya), German East Africa (Tanganyika) and Uganda, 55 to Nigeria, 4 to the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 16 to Zanzibar and 35 to Fiji (including some duplicates).The album sheets appear to have come from five albums, as follows:A Light brown, 230 x 275 mm. (Plates 1-56 on nine sheets)B Dark grey, 220 x 268 mm. (Plates 57-134 on nineteen sheets)C Dark brown,...

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'These are held in wicker containers for roping on to the camel saddles'. The location of this photograph is noted as Garba Tula in the typescript catalogue.

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140 x 194 mm. A view showing the courtyard and entrance to the Lamu Administrative building.

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245 x 185 mm. Similar view to the preceding print but showing a different section of the harbour in the foreground.

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246 x 191 mm. View looking down on wharves, shipping and the railway terminal. The print shows deep water berths 1-10.

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244 x 185 mm. View looking down on class rooms and living quarters.

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Captions for the lantern slides are those written on the slides themselves.

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A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work.

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Loose prints.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'At first when African farmers saw European devoting time and labour to manuring their lands they regarded it as another instance of white man's folly. But they began to notice that the white men's fields grew more and better produce and for years the Agricultural Officers of the Government patiently explained to the Africans how the land must be fed...

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints (originally 80 but lacking No. 75) measuring approximately 155 x 105 mm., with typewritten explanatory captions on the reverse. The collection, which illustrates the progress of land utilisation and betterment schemes in various districts of Kenya is identical, apart from minor variations, with the illustrations in the 'African Land Utilisation and Settlement Report 1962.'Photographs by the Aircraft Operating Company of Africa Limited, Johannesburg (Nos....

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Commercial photographs depicting members of the Turkana, Masai and Nandi peoples.

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A diary describing a journey from London via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons and South Africa in four volumes, each of 50 pages.

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'Africa in Pictures' and '32' printed on the reverse.

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79 x 80 mm. glossy print with two copies and 56 mm. negative.

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

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152 x 181 mm. Mr. Duncan Sandys (left), Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Sultan of Zanzibar, His Highness Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla bin Khalifa, signing an agreement in London on the future of the Kenya Coastal Strip.

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151 x 181 mm. The four signatories to an agreement on the future of the Kenya Coastal Strip are seen after the signing ceremony at Marlborough House, London. From left to right: Mr. Jomo Kenyatta, Prime Minister of Kenya; Mr. Duncan Sandys, Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Sultan of Zanzibar, His Highness Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla bin Khalifa; and the Prime Minister of Zanzibar, Sheikh Mohamed Shamte.

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151 x 181 mm. Mr. Jomo Kenyatta (left), Prime Minister of Kenya, and Mr. Duncan Sandys, Secretary of State for the Colonies, signing an agreement in London on the future of the Kenya Coastal Strip. The agreement was also signed by the Sultan of Zanzibar, His Highness Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla bin Khalifa (right), and by the Prime Minister of Zanzibar, Sheikh Mohamed Shamte.

Scope and Contents A small brown album containing photographs measuring 135 x 85 mm, plus four index prints. There are handwritten annotations in the album or on the reverse of the photographs. Subjects include scenes of Treetops (safari lodge) and big game, the Gerra River Nyeri, the wedding of St. John Shaw and Mary Roe, the family's bungalow and garden, Silver Jubilee celebrations at the Nyeri Club in 1935, children thatching with banana leaves, a holiday in Mombasa, views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Free Town,...