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145 x 100 mm.

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110 x 160 mm. Showing a very large tree.

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110 x 160 mm. A memorial made of many metal animals including a dragon, sheep, fish and a Phoenix, all shaped into a globe.

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140 x 100 mm.

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125 x 85 mm. A view taken from a high aspect of buildings through the trees, and snow-capped mountains in the distance.

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80 x 120 mm. Taken from a high aspect.

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100 x 135 mm. The two figures are identified as R Lovitt on the left and W. Sulivan? on the right.

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50 x 70 mm. Showing a woman stood amongst rocky outcrops.

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50 x 70 mm. A view of a man stood in a snowdrift on the side of (presumably) a mountain.

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70 x 50 mm. A general view of the landscape - trees and mountains. A woman is stood in the foreground admiring the view.

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50 x 70 mm. General view.

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The album cover continues: 'Home leave 1954' and illustrates over 2800 miles by road through Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and France.

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235 x 140 mm.

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165 x 105 mm.

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230 x 160 mm.

Scope and Contents Notes from rough diaries Bell kept during his service in the Gold Coast between 1890-94 (initially as Supervisor of Customs), in the Bahamas as Receiver General and Treasurer, and then from 1899 as Acting Governor of the Leeward Islands and Administrator of Dominica. Before destroying these old diaries Bell extracted 'all that appeared to be of interest in regard to my experiences and the development of my character.' Prominent subjects include Bell’s official duties, colleagues, ideas for...

Scope and Contents The diary describes Laing's journey through Great Britain (chiefly Scotland), July-September 1874 (pp. 1-32); France, Switzerland and Italy, September-December (pp. 33-144); Greece and Asia Minor, December (pp. 144-186); Egypt, December 1874-January 1875 (pp. 188-216); the Suez Canal and Palestine, January (pp. 218-270); and Egypt, 17-25 January; ending at Keneh with the note 'Continued in Vol. II' (pp. 272-286). The journey was apparently made in the company of an American, T.E. Screven...

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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.

Scope and Contents 113 x 149 mm (mounted on card). A full length portrait showing Pickering seated at a garden table in Locarno where he lived between circa 1902-1906. Pickering (1840-1907) served in the Far East in the Mercantile Marine between 1856 and 1862, joining in that year the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs at Foochow; from 1866-1870 he was employed by a mercantile house in Formosa and in 1871 was appointed a Chinese Interpreter in the Starits Settlements Civil Service. He became Protector of...

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A typescript diary of the tour of 1951, presumably compiled by its leader, Rena Datta, interleaved with black and white photographs and other inserted items. There is a list of tour members at the front with captioned photographs of each member of the party. Loose at the start of the album are two typescript pieces on the tour.

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100 x 70 mm.

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100 x 70 mm.

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60 x 85 mm.

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60 x 85 mm.

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60 x 85 mm.