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Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone. Numbers 25-31 are tinted, 32-34 are sepia. Numbers 25-28 appear to be by the same publisher, 29-32 by another and 33-34 possibly by a third.

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Monochrome postcards showing views in Freetown. Photographer and publisher unknown.

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157 x 112 mm. A view looking across pastureland, on which cattle are grazing, towards forest and distant hills. Alldridge recalls Sinkunia, situated west of Falaba about 150 miles from Freetown as the crow flies, as 'a picturesque and open town with high hills near. The sight of cattle grazing recalled many a pretty scene of pastoral English landscape'. (Alldridge 1901, page 290).

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Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone, particularly in Free Town. The majority are by the Lisk-Carew Brothers, number 14 is by the Sierra Leone Government, Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, and number 15 is by Ceylon Pictorials. Numbers 20 and 30 give no indication as to the photographer.

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200 x 150 mm. The ceremony was performed by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught in the course of a one day visit to Sierra Leone. This is a duplicate of Y30446C/10, and the catalogue entry for this and Y30446L/11-12 give full details of the ceremony and the people shown.

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210 x 150 mm. This is a duplicate of Y30446C/11 and shows the scene after the stone was lowered into position. Sir Crampton Smyly presided over a short ceremony and can be seen directly behind the Duke of Connaught.

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Postcards showing views in Sierra Leone. Numbers 25-31 are tinted, 32-34 are sepia. Numbers 25-28 appear to be by the same publisher, 29-32 by another and 33-34 possibly by a third.

Scope and Contents Following Hugh Pearson’s death, the principal recipients of his letters, his mother Mrs Jean Pearson and his youngest sister Ursula Pearson, prepared them for publication along with extracts from his diaries. Copies were sent to London literary agents in 1928 and again in 1930, but plans to publish the memoirs as a book with the title ‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ were never realised. It appears that this manuscript is a copy of the projected book, which was to be divided into three...

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137 x 88 mm. postcard by A. Lisk-Carew. Same series as PC Sierra Leone/13-15.

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Letters, reminiscences, printed items, photographs and medals relating to Mary Ward. The collection also includes material concerning Ward's brother Leonard, the Cossey, Voysey and Sargent families and Bishop Walmsley.

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A collection of loose prints by various photographers. All relate to the life and career of Mary Alexandria Ward, MBE, RRC (1866-1965). Most of the captions are from information supplied by Dr Rachel Elliott; those in brackets are descriptive captions prepared by the Librarian.

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140 x 100 mm.

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210 x 160 mm.

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85 x 60 mm.

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British Official photographs (reference numbers DW 2450-2551).

For the past 50 years African doctors have been directing the Maternity Hospital and centre at Freetown, Sierra Leone. All the doctors and African nursing staff have been trained in England. The Centre includes an Ante-Natal clinic, Labour wards, Lying-in-wards, Post Natal and Infant Welfare Clinics.

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137 x 88 mm. sepia postcard with tinted colour.

Scope and Contents 154 x 112 mm. Showing a group of Mendi women playing seghuras, with a crowd of spectators in the background: 'In some of the large towns I was regularly serenaded about six o'clock in the evening by three or four of the younger wives of the chief in front of my hut ...The national music of the women is the seghura, which is a small hollow gourd, having over it a loosely fitting mesh of country cotton strung with hard split seeds, the long loose ends of the cotton being gathered up...

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The Principal, Mr. T.D. Evans, discusses the day's reading with Student Lappia'.

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Showing the Military Hospital (built in 1825 and still standing today, though no longer a hospital). The card was presumably sent by one of the American missionaries of the United Brethren in Christ mission stationed at Rotifunk. It is signed 'Alice' and is addressed to Miss Julia E. Landis in Ohio, U.S.A.

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A collection of prints by various photographers including the Lisk-Carew Brothers of Freetown, Sierra Leone (prints 22-27). All of the photographs are uncaptioned and the majority measure approximately 200 x 150 mm. The geographical locations of the prints breaks down thus: 1 - 8 Calabar; 9 - 13, 16-17 Opobo; 22 - 27 Sierra Leone.

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102 x 101 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

Scope and Contents 158 x 110 mm. Showing Alldridge lying rather precariously in a hammock slung beneath a pole carried by two bearers on a jungle track: 'The little hammock ... also has its advantages: you can see it from the tops of trees [unlike the covered four man hammock], orchids, birds, and so on; still it is extremely uncomfortable, as it fits you like a shroud. But in going under the sun, or in a very narrow path through dense and spinous vegetation, a loose country cloth is thrown across the pole...

Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...

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205 x 155 mm black and white photograph of Smedley with Khazali and S.J. Oliver (High Commissioner, Sierra Leone, 1969-72)

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100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 155 x 108 copy and 56 mm. negative.