Scope and Contents From the Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). Numbers 419, 428, 434 and 439 all have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Sisal in Tanganyika.At the outbreak of World War II the important continental market of the Tanganyika sisal growers fell away and the industry found itself a 'surplus producer'. To preserve the industry and the only source of sisal in the Empire the British government decided at the end of 1942 to purchase a stockpile of...

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Showing a narrow guage railway on the estate. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Small types of either steam or diesal engines are used to pull the trollies filled with leaf'.

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160 x 210 mm.

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158 x 113. Similar to the preceding.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection comprises black and white photographs, mostly 125 x 75 mm or 75 x 125 mm in size, film negatives and glass negatives. Some of the prints from glass plates are smaller, approximately 85 x 65 mm. The prints are good compositions, though some are rather dark, and were listed by Erica Ryan of the National Library of Australia, using, among other sources, the captioned envelopes in which the original negatives had been stored. The provenance of the collection is unclear,...

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244 x 186 mm. A view looking down from the Residency balcony onto the lawn where guests are gathering for the reception held to celebrate the coming of age of Sultan Seyyid Ali bin Hamoud. See Y30468C/24.

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239 x 190 mm. A view looking down onto the residency lawn where guests are gathered in groups. A.S. Rogers can be seen in the centre foreground.

Scope and Contents 263 x 215 mm. A view showing European, Arab and Indian residents of Zanzibar seated in a flag-draped room, presumably for the musical evening given by J.R. Smith and the staff of the ETC which is reported in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for March 1st 1905. A.S. Rogers, in informal clothes, sits at the head of the gathering. No other figures have been identified. The entertainment consisted of songs and music followed by ‘Crazed’ a ‘musical trifle… rendered in faultless style and real artistic...

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130 x 75 mm. Showing Westgate standing in the centre of a group of African men with a dead leopard lying at their feet.

Scope and Contents 194 x 145 mm. Showing a group of German D.O.G. employees, Arabs and Indians (a parsee among them) standing in front of the customs shed with large piles of elephant tusks, graded according to size, lying on the ground around them. The caption is taken from Meinecke (1899) where the photograph is reproduced as a woodcut with the following explanation (roughly translated):'Many millions of marks of ivory produce was shipped to Zanzibar through the old customs port at Bagamoyo. The caravans...

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217 x 146 mm.. A view showing crowds of spectators at the Athletic Sports which concluded the celebrations of the Sultan’s coming of age. The order of events and the results can be found in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for June 28th 1905.

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102 x 79 mm. A view showing a group of competitors at the Sports days.

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245 x 180 mm. A view showing a seated row of spectators at the celebratory sports with Arab dignitaries seated in the foreground and Europeans beyond.

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242 x 183 mm. A view showing crowds of spectators gathered round the racetrack at the celebratory sports days.

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212 x 151 mm. A view, similar to Y30468D/8, showing spectators at the sports days held to celebrate the Sultan’s coming of age.

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72 x 101 mm.

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133 x 82 mm. Characters in the Christmas pageant, 1934. Westgate identified items of the costumes as his dressing gown, travelling rug, green counterpane, table cloth etc.

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Typescript drafts of chapters from 'A son of the Canadian Church' covering Westgate's time in German East Africa, 1902, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1909-1912 and 1913-1914 (3 sets). There are manuscript annotations and a few pages of notes.

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78 x 135 mm. A view looking along a tree lined avenue, probably in the official quarter of Dar es Salaam.

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Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

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50 x 75 mm. Photograph of a drawing of a three quarter length portrait of young girl. There is text on the reverse of the print, written in Arabic.

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A photograph of footprints in sand. A caption on the album page reads: 'all these taken within a radius of 15 yards. Arushachina [i.e. Arusha Chini]'.

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98 x 109 mm. Showing an African servant pushing a wooden wheelbarrow-cum-pram in which a baby is seated.

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209 x 151 mm. A view looking along the rear balcony of the British Residency, showing the carved balustrades and decorative wrought-iron work and with a chair in the foreground. Beyond the balcony the gardens and harbour can be seen. See Y30468C/30.