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135 x 90 mm. View showing HHB saluting in front of Queen Victoria's statue with a guard of honour drawn up. This was the day HHB went on leave. Photograph by Mrs. Gilchrist.

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80 x 105 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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104 x 76 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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70 x 93 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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71 x 92 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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Loose mounted prints of various sizes by various photographers. The prints relate to different periods of Bell's career. The captions have been composed for this catalogue.

Scope and Contents 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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A list on the inside of the front cover indicates that the now empty album contained botanical drawings. It is filed with two loose sketches. The sketches may originally have been housed in the missing albums 4 and 5 which held work on Africa.

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71 x 121 mm. Showing Bell standing on a pier (probably at Blue Bay) with the three daughters of Pierre Adam.

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120 x 90 mm. Showing partially constructed buildings probably part of the model village on which work started in 1920. In 1924 it was named 'Bell Village'.

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120 x 90 mm. Showing tiles being placed on roof of partly constructed building.

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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65 x 85 mm. A general view of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

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100 x 80 mm. A general view of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

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100 x 80 mm. A side view of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

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80 x 100 mm. A view through the oriental style doorway of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

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100 x 80 mm. A view of three men seated round a table in a courtyard of HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

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70 x 80 mm. HHB's 'Moorish villa' at Blue Bay, completed 1923.

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73 x 97 mm. Statue of Sir William Stevenson at the entrance to Government House, Port Louis. The likeness was made by the Mauritian artist Prosper d'Epinay, and unveiled in 1867. The caption wrongly gives Stevenson's initial as 'J'.

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pen and ink sketch

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110 x 82 mm. Group of children with a few adults.

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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98 x 73 mm. Showing the two named women seated with Bell on the steps leading up to the verandah of a house, probably Le Reduit.

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72 x 97 mm. Showing Mrs Harwood (probably the wife of S.F.D. Harwood, Professor of Chemistry) seated on a low stone wall.

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134 x 79 mm. Showing Bell seated in his Daimler on the drive in front of Le Reduit.