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150 x 90 mm.

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130 x 78 mm. Showing Bell marching with Lt. Col. Austin Charles Godfrey (Inspector General of Police) and Major E.W.N. Walker, Officer commanding troops in Mauritius. Photograph probably taken outside Government House on Bell's arrival.

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182 x 78 mm. View looking towards Bell's bungalow at Blue Bay.

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77 x 99 mm. Showing part of Bell's bungalow at Blue Bay.

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136 x 81 mm. View looking out over Blue Bay at dusk, with a tree silhouetted in the foreground.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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118 x 70 mm. Showing bride, groom, pages and George Lightfoot (Governor's A.D.C.) grouped on the verandah of an unidentified house. No biographical information on Brickdale.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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A collection of coloured 'oilette' postcards of Mauritius, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons for the British Empire Exhibition 1924.

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224 x 173 mm. Showing tobacco being tied into carrot shaped bundles by a worker seated on a verandah. The photograph demonstrates the way in which the leaves are tightly wrapped in lengths of plaited rope.

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236 x 178 mm. Showing tobacco being tied into carrot shaped bundles by a worker seated on a verandah. The photograph demonstrates the way in which the leaves are tightly wrapped in lengths of plaited rope.

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79 x 138 mm. Showing a waterfall and pool at Le Reduit, with Bell seated on a rock in the foreground.

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75 x 100 mm. Showing a figure netting camerons (a giant freshwater shrimp) beside a waterfall.

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125 x 90 mm. A lake or river scene with foliage in the background.

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140 x 90 mm. A lake or river scene with foliage in the background.

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168 x 213 mm. General view of the dramatic Chamarel Falls in the SW end of the island.

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172 x 148 mm. View looking across the course towards the grandstand, with race-goers seated on the grass or strolling across the field.

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A collection of coloured 'oilette' postcards of Mauritius, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons for the British Empire Exhibition 1924.

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98 x 74 mm. Group portrait of Indian and Mauritian children taken in the grounds of Le Reduit.

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133 x 78 mm. Group portrait taken in the garden at Le Reduit.

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140 x 90 mm. Showing HHB with the others identified sitting under a tree, possibly at Le Reduit.

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130 x 78 mm. Showing Colonel Austin Godfrey, Inspector General of Police, seated in an open sports car, with his dog in the back seat and a uniformed chauffeur in the dickey.

Scope and Contents This is an unedited draft of a book in which Alexander set out to give 'a personal account of my contacts with universities in the developing countries of the Commonwealth.'It begins with the background of Alexander’s own university education at Auckland, Cambridge and London; describes Raffles College and the University of Malaya; and his work at the University of Ibadan and the contribution of its Physics Department during the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. Considerable...

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132 x 81 mm. A view looking towards the circular thatched cottage with surrounding verandah, owned or rented by Bell at Blue Bay in the south-west of the island. The handwritten inscription on the reverse reads: 'The dear cottage of Blue Bay, 'Pointe d'Esny', Mahébourg, Mauritius. To dear Sir Hesketh Bell from Cécile Raffay.'