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154 x 201 mm. Mr. Tom Mboya and Mr. Ian Macleod shaking hands at the last day of the Kenya Constitutional Conference, which was held in London.

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215 x 165 mm. Showing a mound covered by latticework made of sticks.

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197 x 145 mm. Showing the ‘William Mackinnon’ as yet without a funnel, being manoeuvred off the slip-way into Lake Victoria with a crowd of Africans following the boat. Photograph by Benjamin Whitehouse.

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60 x 65 mm. Showing a young boy with a book on his lap.

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A view showing a small boat with a man sitting on the side and two others climbing the small mast.

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Glossy 56 mm. contact print with negative.

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Nine unpublished manuscripts written by the Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria.

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An undated copy of a letter from Harold Lambert to T.H.R. Cashmore, 6 April 1964, containing personal recollections of colleagues and other aspects of administrative life in Kenya. The letter was sent in connection with Cashmore's dissertation, 'Studies in district administration in the East African Protectorate, 1895-1918' (Ph.D., Cambridge, 1965), and 'Your obedient servants' (see RCMS 173).

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Prominent subjects include the extent of Bell's powers as Commissioner of Uganda; descriptions of officials, visitors, and African leaders; Bell's social life, recreation and health; attempts to encourage the development of the railways and water transportation; the cultivation of cotton and rubber; accounts of the sleeping sickness epidemic; and descriptions of Entebbe, Kampala and other places he visited (60 sheets).

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Subjects include financial estimates, building plans and the opening of Government House; entertaining and visitors; the hurricane insurance scheme; development of railways, roads, and a new port for Kampala; support for the cotton industry; visits to a Sleeping Sickness camp and an appeal for relief funds in Britain; the outbreak of famine; a visit to the CMS King’s School at Budo; a tour of the eastern provinces of the Protectorate; and a visit to British East Africa (67 sheets).

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Letters from Arnold Paice to his mother, father and sister Muriel Paice, and his correspondence with the Royal Commonwealth Society regarding their donation.

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Copies of three letters from Satwant Singh Suman to David Le Breton and Rachel Rowe describing his father's emigration from India to East Africa and his career in the East African Railways.

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...

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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'E A Standard Process' printed in bottom left corner.

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...

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...

Scope and Contents A series of Official photographs (Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Though Kenya is more usually associated with the green pastures, cool glades and ice-cold streams of its lovely highlands, the Northern Frontier Province has all the ingredients of the desert.The scattered nomad population of wandering Hamites move from one grazing ground to another with their precious flocks and herds. Miles of low thorn bush are empty save...

Scope and Contents 210 x 160 mm. View of goats resting in the shade of trees. The caption reads: 'There's welcome shade under the big acacias which line the banks of this dry riverbed. Flocks and herds awaiting watering as they have from time immemorial.' The caption continues on a more general note with: 'Though Kenya is more usually associated with the green pastures, cool glades and ice-cold streams of its lovely highlands, the Northern Frontier Province has all the ingredients of the desert. The...

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135 x 95 mm. A general view of grassland. Two people can be seen in the background walking through the long grass, and beyond them, buildings or huts amongst the trees.

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89 x 61 mm.

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A view showing a car being loaded onto a wooden sailing boat by over a dozen men.

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191 x 196 mm. View along a wharf at Kilindini towards railway freight trucks, a crane and a moored ship.

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...

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print.