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The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.

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Cuttings from the 'East African Standard' and other publications on events in Kenya, Uganda and Rhodesia, particularly the Mau Mau disturbances. Most of the cuttings have been pasted into the binder in chronological order, but some are loose.

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Newscuttings from 'The East Africa Standard' and 'The Kenya Observer', and several from 'The Times'. The cuttings concern Kenyan government and political issues, including Indian claims, labour issues, land tenure and Legislative Council sessions. There is also news from other parts of Africa and from outside the continent. In some cases the dates of the newscuttings have been supplied by the cataloguer in pencil where they were missing.

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Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.

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Most cuttings are from the ‘East African Standard’, with others from the ‘Mombasa Times’ ‘Weekly Illustrated’, the ‘Daily Mirror’, the ‘South Wales Echo’, the ‘Sunday Post’, the ‘Daily News’ and the ‘Daily Mail’ reporting stories of interest to the Dobinsons.

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Various sizes.

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A view looking along the flooded river with thick forest on either bank. After a wearisome march through dense undergrowth Jackson and Gedge reached the river and ‘the sun coming out went and took a couple of photos of the river and gorge.’ Duplicate of Y30468K/18.

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79 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative and 156 x 150 mm. copy.

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The caption on the reverse continues 'The Euphorbia cactus and the creeper named after the great French explorer Bougainville'.

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The caption on the reverse continues 'These flat-topped thorn trees, very typical of Africa, provide welcome shade during the heat of the day for the big game, which like to lie up in the high coarse grass in which these trees grow'.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

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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The caption on the reverse continues 'The sky is full of liquid light. The silence over everything is most wonderful, yet the shadows teem with unseen movement. All the bush seems listening, on its guard, for it is the hour when the great carnivora come out to seek their meat'.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

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The caption on the reverse continues 'A typical, brief, brilliant tropical sunset, which makes the mountains glow with its reflections'.

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The caption on the reverse continues 'African trees sometimes assume the most grotesque or weird shapes, like caricatures, but the Cussonia or 'Pom Pom' tree is graceful in its strange beauty'.

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The caption on the reverse continues 'A wife takes third place to cattle and huts in native Africa, and is generally poorly dressed, and walks respectfully some paces behind her husband, who is generally decked in fine apparel. It is always the wife who does the hard work'.

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The caption on the reverse continues 'The native of Africa has his markets just like the European, and in bargaining has nothing to learn from Europe. Time being of no value to the African, he is quite willing to spend all day, or all week over the argument'.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

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The caption on the reverse continues 'A frond of the full-grown leaf is taller than a man, and the trunks attain enormous heights. Their immense and inflexible strength is primaeval in its force, and man seems very small by comparison'.

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Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.