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17 x 80 mm. glossy print.

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133 x 87 mm. glossy print with 67 x 44 mm. negative.

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102 x 101 mm. glossy print with 152 x 152 mm. enlargement and 56 mm. negative. Location unidentified.

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165 x 120 mm. Rather dark.

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158 x 113 mm. A view looking along a road at Bonthe, the seat of Government for the Sherbro district and situated at the east end of Sherbro Island, towards a group of small thatched houses set among trees. With a stream in the left foreground.

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157 x 112 mm. Showing a thatched wooden house set among banana trees, with a small covered roadside fruit stall to the right and a family group posing for the camera in the middle ground of the print.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'He is taking the agricultural course'.

Scope and Contents From the Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Numbers 117-127 all have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Young Sierra Leoneans train for battle against ignorance. The Njala Training College.A college where young Sierra Leoneans can learn to become agricultural instructors, primary teachers, and forest rangers is run by the Sierra Leone Government at Njala, a day's journey from Freetown, the capital. On successful completion of their...

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Teaching practice and observation in the Practising School form one of the most important aspects of the Education Course'.

Scope and Contents From the Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Numbers 117-127 all have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Young Sierra Leoneans train for battle against ignorance. The Njala Training College.A college where young Sierra Leoneans can learn to become agricultural instructors, primary teachers, and forest rangers is run by the Sierra Leone Government at Njala, a day's journey from Freetown, the capital. On successful completion of their...

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'These students are learning to be agricultural instructors'.

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156 x 110 mm. A view from the beach looking towards the houses of Sulima, the starting point for Alldridge's journeys into the interior.

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117 x 80 mm. glossy print.

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117 x 80 mm. glossy print.

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137 x 88 mm. postcard.

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137 x 88 mm. postcard.

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137 x 88 mm. postcard.

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

Scope and Contents A disbound album containing prints of various sizes, with captions beneath the prints. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. Of the prints, 61 relate to the overseas service of Lieutenant Colonel Tyers, the remainder being photographs of English and continental scenes. The photographer for the vast majority of the prints is unknown.The photographs are arranged in haphazard sequence but the movements of the Boadicea have...

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79 x 80 mm. glossy print.

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The caption continues:
Across the ocean far and near,
Comes again the thought of friends
The same old wish,
Prosperity, Health, and Happy Days
At Christmas and the New Year.'

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145 x 100 mm. The Barracks are in the distance, not only small but very faded.

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158 x 108 mm. Showing surf breaking on the beach at Sulima, a port of entry into the Sherbro at the mouth of the River Moa. Alldridge included this photograph as an illustration of the difficulty of landing at Sulima during the rainy season.

Scope and Contents 158 x 112 mm. Showing two Mandingo or Mandinka men, a Muslim group in West Africa, posing for their portraits with their wooden xylophones: 'This instrument is known as the balenjeh, or African piano. It is about three feet long, and consists of some fifteen short pieces of wood, mounted over small hollow gourds, the whole set in a frame and played like a dulcimer, with two small sticks with rubber knobs to them...The effect was very fine, as the tones produced are soft and...

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The caption continues: 'Soap and water, keeps both body and soul healthy and clean.'