Scope and Contents 198 x 139 mm. Showing Sir Henry Hesketh Bell, accompanied by officials, walking beneath an arch of palms on Entebbe Pier on his return from sick leave in England, October 28 1907. From left to right the group comprises Captain Frank BURTON, the Governor's A.D.C.; Sir Henry Hesketh BELL; (later Sir) Alexander George BOYLE (1872-1943), Provincial Commissioner, Eastern Province 1905-1910; George WILSON and Captain Edward Vaughan JENKINS DSO (-1941), King's African Rifles. (possible arrival,...

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80 x 80 mm. Showing Bell seated in a howdah on Futki the elephant's back, with the mahout Shief Munshi seated on the animal's neck and the syce (groom) standing to one side. With Government House in the background.

Scope and Contents 201 x 143 mm. A view looking across the lawns and flowerbeds (where gardeners are at work) to the Government House built by Captain Usorne, the Director of the Public Works, for Sir Henry Hesketh Bell. On his arrival in Entebbe, Hesketh Bell's accommodation consisted of a 'very large bungalow of wood and iron, raised high on stilts and as ugly and prosaic a building as one would not wish to see'. This was later to become the Hotel Victoria (and later still the Secretariat) while Hesketh...

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196 x 138 mm. A view from the lawn showing the partially completed building, with unrendered brickwork, scaffolding and as yet without a roof.

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160 x 210 mm.

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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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216 x 166 mm.

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206 x 119 mm. Showing a guard of honour preceded by drummers entering the grounds of Government House, followed by tongas containing Daudi Chwa and other Ugandan dignitaries.

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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Possibly Namirembe Cathedral

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192 x 140 mm. Showing a group of men and women gathered in front of Government House during an informal occasion. Sir Henry Hesketh Bell, the Governor, is seated on a step at the front of the group.

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161 x 118 mm. Showing a group of African children posed with T.B.R. Westgate in front of one of the classrooms at Bugiri.

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161 x 118 mm. Showing a group of African children posed with T.B.R. Westgate in front of one of the classrooms at Bugiri.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

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

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157 x 115 mm. A view showing three men and a woman standing on the front steps of a house, possibly in Uganda. Cuthbert Christy is at the left of the group, other figures are unidentified. Photographer unknown.

Scope and Contents 155 x 113 mm A group portrait of 13 Swahili headmen, armed with rifles and arranged in two rows. Gedge briefly records the occasion in his diary: ‘Took a couple of photos of H/men; too seedy to develop’, and on August 3rd: ‘In evening developed plates and found two I took of H/M are good ones but some small plates I did for J[ackson] were all fogged badly. It is evidently a mistake to keep plates too long in slides out here as the light does seem to leak into them somehow. If not developed...

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

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154 x 111 mm. Showing a group of Africans seated around a tent pitched at the foot of a hill. Henrietta Westgate, with Dorothy in her arms, is seated in the centre of the group. Two copies.

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158 x 111 mm. glossy print with copy and 83 x 58 mm. negative. The term Pygmy was used to describe ethnic groups of Equatorial Africa of shorter than average height.

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Showing Daudi Chwa, Sir Apolo Kagwa and other figures standing beneath an umbrella of state.

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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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120 x 82 mm. This is a copy of a photograph of four soldiers, possibly Sudanese, and two other men in civilian dress, in what appears to be Fort Gerry.

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158 x 112 mm. glossy print with two copies. Leslie Brown, Bishop of Uganda, appears in the centre of the front row, with Rev. Douglas Webster, who preached the sermon, first from the left.