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A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana'.

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A caption on the page reads: 'Turkana'.

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Showing the dry river bed of the Turkwel watercourse.

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'Not light enough to finish.'

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52 x 78 mm. Probably at Kajiado.

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53 x 75 mm.

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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130 x 145 mm. General view of the landscape and distant huts.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions documenting Arthur Fisher's service as a missionary in Uganda.

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An album containing snapshots by Sir Henry Hesketh Bell and others. The majority of images, which measure 87 x 87 mm, are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Where deducible, dates have been added. Most of the prints in the album record scenes from Bell's official tours and from hunting expeditions in the Uganda Protectorate.

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A scrapbook album containing prints by various photographers, including Alfred Lobo. The prints are of various sizes and the majority are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Among the scenes and events depicted in the album are the Kampala Exhibition of 1908, views of Government House, Entebbe, the visit of Winston Churchill to Uganda in 1907, sleeping sickness sufferers in Uganda and durbars in Northern Nigeria.

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The diary (circa 80 pages) describes Christy's journey from London to Uganda, and his first tours of inspection for the Sleeping Sickness Commission. It also includes some zoological observations.

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The diary (circa 80 pages) describes Christy's tours of inspection for the Sleeping Sickness Commission and includes some zoological observations.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

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Copies of letters (circa 120 leaves) written by Christy to the Uganda and East Africa Exploration Syndicate. It had despatched him on a prospecting mission to locate forests rich in the Funtumia elastica tree, which was used for the production of rubber. Some of the letters include summaries of their contents in the margins.

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'Red Cross flag over hospital. Zarchas (ie branches of trees) round tents to keep off lions and leopards.

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Showing Bell and an unidentified figure, possibly Frederick Knowles, seated above the cow catcher at the front of a Uganda Railway locomotive.

Scope and Contents Diaries, notes and reports recording Christy's research for the first Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission in Africa. The medical expedition was a response to the spreading Uganda Sleeping Sickness epidemic of 1901. Its aim was to elucidate the role of the Filaria perstans parasite in causing the disease. Christy travelled widely in Uganda, British and German East Africa, and the upper Sudan to map the distributions of the parasite and the disease. His findings were important in...

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155 x 112 mm. glossy print.

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155 x 112 mm. glossy print.

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152 x 108 mm. (modern print from RGS negative). For caption amendments see H.B. Thomas, ‘Early ascents of Mount Elgon’ ('Uganda Journal', Vol 20, p 113-128).

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209 x 157 mm. Photograph by William D Young.

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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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Showing sacks of vegetables being unloaded from a lorry at the drying plant. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'They have been bought at one of the buying centres in a native area at a few miles away'.

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209 x 155 mm. A fine view showing a steam locomotive crossing a steel viaduct in hilly country near Molo (mile 484). Molo is situated near the top of the Mau Escarpment about 8 miles before Mau Summit Station. Several such viaducts were needed to span ravines in the railways climb out the Rift Valley. Photograph by William D Young.