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Kenya (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1507 Collections and/or Records:

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Ferns overhanging the Ngare Davash R. in Mau Forest, 1889-09-29

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/20
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1889-09-29
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Festival at Kisii, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/5
Scope and Contents

200 x 145 mm. Showing a group of men wearing large feathered headdresses, others have drums. There are many spectators in the background.

Dates: 1950
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F.G. Banks photographs

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011ZZ
Dates: 1880 - 1952
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Fig Tree Bend, Kibiri railway, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/45
Scope and Contents

65 x 40 mm.

Dates: 1935
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Final Day of Kenya Conference, 1960-02-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/COI/A/267
Scope and Contents

150 x 205 mm. Mr. Ngala, Chairman of the African Nationalist Group speaking on the final day of the Kenya Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House, London.

Dates: 1960-02-21
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[Fire damage], 1933 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/2/31
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing billowing smoke. The caption continues: 'Uncontrolled fires in the dry season do much to destroy trees and other natural vegetation leaving the land bare and liable to erosion when the heavy rains begin.

Dates: 1933 - 1950
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First African mission, 1928-01 - 1928-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Dates: 1928-01 - 1928-08
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First African survey, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

Dates: 1925
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First Camp at European School: Eldoret and Nandis on school road, 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/1-8
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Dates: 1942
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First sight of Kilimanjaro, 1900-02-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/26
Scope and Contents

'Uganda Railway, (British flag) while the rest were at breakfast.'

Dates: 1900-02-24
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First sight of Mombasa, no time for colour, 1900-02-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/19
Scope and Contents

An uncoloured pencil sketch of part of the waterfront, probably from the Old Harbour, and showing the Customs House and landing stages.

Dates: 1900-02-13
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Fish and firewood markets, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Monochrome postcard views of Mombasa. Published by D. Evaristo Coutinho and the Swift Press.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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[Fishing], 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/109
Scope and Contents

Showing a man, possibly Ray Scholes, standing on a river bank fishing. Near Naivasha, Kenya.

Dates: 1934
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Five years later Arap Kipkoske has a fine plantation, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/392
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'He is going to build a new house, cuts building poles'.

Dates: 1940 - 1949
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F.J. J[ackson] ‘collecting’, Mau Forest, 1889-10-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/22
Scope and Contents

113 x 155 mm. A view looking across a river and makeshift bridge with Jackson standing on the farther side at the edge of thick forest holding a butterfly net. Gedge’s diary for the day records: ‘Went down in the morning with J to the river. Took my butterfly net and camera. Caught some new butterflies and took a photo’.

Dates: 1889-10-01
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F.J.J. and buffalo, Turquell, 1890-01-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/61
Scope and Contents

155 x 113 mm. 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.

Dates: 1890-01-20
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Flamingoes, Lake Nakuru - Kenya, 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Kenya/43
Scope and Contents

'107' printed on the reverse.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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Forest, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364/2/1/36
Scope and Contents

65 x 40 mm.

Dates: 1935
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Forest on Mt Elgon, 1890-02-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/71
Scope and Contents

155 x 113 mm. A view looking out over dense wooded hillside. See note to Y30468K/70.

Dates: 1890-02-22
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Former Port Health Office, Mombasa, 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468L/6
Scope and Contents

107 x 71 mm. A photograph taken in 1976 showing the verandahed exterior.

Dates: 1976
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Fort Hall Martyrs' Memorial Church, with congregation outside, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/43
Scope and Contents

152 x 110 mm. glossy print with copy and 56 mm. negative.

Dates: 1958
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Fort Hall Memorial Church, May 1957, 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/40
Scope and Contents

156 x 109 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1957
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Francis Hall collection

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468U
Dates: 1950 - 1970
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Frere Town Boys’ School, an early mission school, 1940 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/14/44a
Scope and Contents

205 x 143 mm. glossy print.

Dates: 1940 - 1969