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210 x 160 mm. Showing cotton being weighed. The caption continues: 'An agricultural instructor at a buying post. Scales and weights and measures are checked regularly whilst a careful watch is kept to maintain standards,'

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210 x 160 mm. Showing a long line of women and children carrying baskets of cotton on their heads. The caption continues: 'Women and children converging upon a buying post to sell their cotton by weight.'

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210 x 160 mm. Showing people working in a cotton field. The caption continues: 'One of a number of experimental plots in which new varieties of cotton are tested for yield, resistance to disease, and other qualities, in areas typical of African production.'

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210 x 160 mm. Showing people working in a cotton field. The caption continues: 'The same experimental plot some four months later. Observations are being taken on flower and boll production. The produce from each variety is harvested and kept separately pending the final weighing and analysis for quality.

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75 x 49 mm. Possibly in Kenya.

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73 x 50 mm. Possibly in Kenya.

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155 x 113 mm. Showing the dead cow buffalo lying on its side. Gedge’s diary for the day records photographing the animal: 'a herd of buffalo crossed my path about 50 yds off; let drive the 8 bore and knocked a cow which went a short distance and then fell dead on her knees. Photographed her as she lay . . . '

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152 x 108 mm. Modern print from RGS negative. Showing the dead hippopotamus on the bank of the river.

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65 x 40 mm.

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206 x 152 mm. A duplicate of Y30468J/16.

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90 x 85 mm. Showing fourteen men holding long handled implements all lined up along a water filled ditch.

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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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154 x 109 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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107 x 71 mm. glossy print.

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107 x 71 mm. glossy print. Pictured from left to right are: Rev. E. Oywaya, Rt. Rev. Festo Olang', three African clergymen, and Mr F.T. Ainsworth.

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127 x 76 mm. glossy print. There is a note accompanying the photo written by Miss E.M. Wiseman.

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A collection of papers including translations from A. Bocarro, J. de Barros, J. dos Santos, Paris y Sousa and Vasco da Gama.

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155 x 113 mm. A view looking across a valley floor, with a stream in the foreground, towards an uninhabited Masai kraal of rectangular mud huts. Gedge’s diary records: ‘Shortly after we entered the plain [en route to Lake Naivasha] Masai kraals all deserted people moved off to Lykipia crossed plain in NW direction and reached edge of escarpment… Later … took 2 photos of warriors’ kraals. No trace of the second photograph has been found.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'A Kenya police camel patrol pass a rocky outcrop in the colony's Northern Province'.

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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55 x 77 mm.

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77 x 55 mm.

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The diary records Bell's years as Commissioner (later Governor) of Uganda, notable for his efforts to combat a sleeping sickness epidemic, develop cotton cultivation among other economic initiatives, and to improve the protectorate's transportation network. Bell describes his official duties and colleagues, Uganda’s peoples and landscape, and his social life and personal affairs. The diary contains one photograph (circa 150 sheets).

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Description of a journey from Durban to Nairobi (circa 65 pages).

Scope and Contents A typescript by A.T. Matson of Hobley's diary for 1 October 1894 to 12 May 1897. The diary (pp. 1-81) describes the establishment of the administration in Kavirondo, including the fighting that took place. It is followed by the names of Kavirondo peoples and chiefs (pp. 83-84), miscellaneous papers (p. 84) and Mumia's Station Case Book, 19 February 1895 - 31 January 1896, dealing chiefly with punishments (3 pages). There is an accompanying letter to Dr Anne Thurston from A.S. Bell of...