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210 x 160 mm.

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245 x 191 mm. Showing a long mail and passenger train on the steel girder bridge.

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90 x 103 mm. Showing traders and customers in the open market square in Kampala.

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115 x 90 mm. Showing a trader in the market, his goods laid out on the ground beneath a thatch awning.

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50 x 55 mm.

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89 x 86 mm. Showing Dandi Kasagama standing with officials of state beneath an umbrella.

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86 x 77 mm. Showing Dandi Kasagama standing with officials of state beneath an umbrella.

Scope and Contents From the Series: A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...

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Showing Kassagama riding towards the camera on horseback: 'Kassagama, the King ot Kabaka of Toro, met me just outside his town [Fort Portal]. He was mounted on a smart horse, which he sat very well, and looked most imposing. Like Kahaya, he is the tallest and biggest man in his country, but he is a good deal older and more dignified than his cousin of Ankole. He understands a little English and is very progressive.' (Bell 1907, February 15).

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84 x 78 mm. Showing Dandi Kasagama (1870-1928), the Mukama of Toro from 1891-1928, riding on Futki's back beneath a state umbrella. The photograph was taken during Bell's tour of the western districts in January-March 1909.

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86 x 77 mm. Showing Dandi Kasagama standing with officials of state beneath an umbrella.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions from K.H. Buxton, who is probably Kathleen Hannah Buxton (1905-1999), daughter of Reverend Leonard Buxton, the Vicar of North Mimms, Hertfordshire.

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Reports by AFB of his unofficial visits to Kenya and Uganda, to get the point of view of the African population on improving their social conditions and preparing for self-government. Note that the report on Kenya consists of several incomplete drafts.

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Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to AFB's unofficial visits to Kenya and Uganda in 1950 and 1963, including: press cuttings on the 1950 visit; annotated draft text of the agreement with European, Asian and African members of the Kenya legislature, 1954, with amendments by Michael Blundell [founder of the United Country Party], on social conditions, land registration, co-operative farming and the colour bar; a copy of the Kenya Independence Day souvenir, 1963, issued by the Kenya Indian Congress and signed by...

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165 x 116 mm. General view of college buildings. The caption on the reverse outlines, at length, the reasoning behind the gift.

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77 x 50 mm. A road running through countryside.

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61 x 86 mm. A snapshot of Bell holding his pet monkey Kima.

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Miscellaneous monochrome postcards. Photographers and/or publishers unknown, apart from no.40, issued by the White Fathers.

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A collection of 18 glass slides and 38 photographs. The slides were used by Hogbin to illustrate talks on her work when on furlough (leave of absence), and their captions were provided by her niece. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

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81 x 81 mm. Showing King Kahaya firing a bow with an attendant in the background holding arrows. This is probably a demonstration of one of the weapons given to Bell when he visited Kahaya's house the day after arriving in Mbarara ('Kahaya gave me a lot of bows and arrows, and pottery, and some skins; also a cow and calf', (Bell 1907, February 1)).

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Showing King Kahaya firing a bow with an attendant in the background holding arrows. This is probably a demonstration of one of the weapons given to Bell when he visited Kahaya's house the day after arriving in Mbarara ('Kahaya gave me a lot of bows and arrows, and pottery, and some skins; also a cow and calf', Bell (1907), February 1).

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Kahaya II (on the right) was king from 1901 until his death in 1944. The figure to the left may be prime minister Nuwa Mbaguta (1867-1944).

Scope and Contents 87 x 87 mm. Showing Bell and the young Kabaka of Buganda Daudi Chwa seated in the back seat of the motor car, with an unidentified European in the front seat. Hesketh Bell records the arrival of the motor car in Uganda: '20th April [1908] ... some months ago I ordered from Home a motor car for my use and a motor lorry, and they have arrived. Both are of 'Albion' make. These are the first motor cars ever seen in Uganda and they are making a great sensation among the natives. They are...

Scope and Contents 81 x 81 mm. Showing Bell and the young Kabaka of Buganda Daudi Chwa seated in the back seat of the motor car, with an unidentified European in the front seat. Hesketh Bell records the arrival of the motor car in Uganda: '20th April [1908] ... some months ago I ordered from Home a motor car for my use and a motor lorry, and they have arrived. Both are of 'Albion' make. These are the first motor cars ever seen in Uganda and they are making a great sensation among the natives. They are...