Scope and Contents

'443' printed on the reverse.

Scope and Contents

161 x 118 mm. As captioned.

Scope and Contents

View looking down on rows of sisal drying on wires. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Providing conditions are favourable during the dry season the fibres is dried [sic] in twelve hours'.

Scope and Contents

Showing African workers laying the sisal out on the drying lines. The typewritten caption continues 'if conditions are favourable during the dry season the fibre is dried in twelve hours'.

Scope and Contents

240 x 188 mm. A view from the harbour wharf showing crowds of Swahili labourers working among the chaos of overturned lighters and other craft washed onto the shore during a storm. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Even the floating copra in the right foreground was salved'. The harbour wall can be seen in the background with the Beit el Ajait and the Sultan's Palace at the right of the print.

Scope and Contents

207 x 152 mm. A view from the harbour wharf showing crowds of Swahili labourers working among the chaos of overturned lighters and other craft washed onto the shore during a storm.

Scope and Contents

Showing a labourer cutting leaves from a mature sisal plant. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'An average of fourteen leaves are left on the plant after cutting'.

Scope and Contents

An album of photographs with captions, the later ones more detailed.

1-27 are of Egypt and the Sudan, 28-55 of East Africa.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of two albums relating to the career of Richard Everard Thorne (see Y30468DD/13), who was born in 1901, educated at Haileybury, and joined the Tanganyika Police in 1925. After returning home to get married in 1930, he served in Iringa (twice) and Dar-es-Salaam during the period 1930-1939. During the Second World War he was seconded from Tanganyika Police to the Somalia Gendarmerie. He returned to Tanganyika 1949-1952, then after attending the Senior Officers'...

Scope and Contents

Head and shoulders portrait of a young man with pointed teeth.

Scope and Contents

155 x 155 mm.

Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

Scope and Contents

120 x 160 mm.

Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm.

Scope and Contents 200 x 250 mm. The caption continues: 'This photograph and those which follow show an African ‘doctor’ (Swahili: ‘Mganga’) performing the operation of cupping or blood letting upon a client. Briefly, the method is to extract blood by the powerful sucking action formed by the partial vacuum created in cows horns which are affixed to various parts of the body (the temples and along the backs).After shaving off any hair superficial criss-cross cuts are made and then the blood...

Scope and Contents

230 x 200 mm. The caption continues: 'Fixing one of the horns. The 'doctor' is about to suck out the air through a small hole in the end which he will then seal with wax.'

Scope and Contents

205 x 245 mm. The caption continues: 'A client undergoing the operation of 'cupping.' In this photograph the shaving of the hair and the beeswax tips to the horns can be clearly seen.'

Scope and Contents

200 x 250 mm. The caption continues: 'The cupping horns must be carefully chosen to fit each client. The 'doctor' has about a score from which to make his selection. The spear is more a badge of office than anything else and has no part in the actual operations of the 'doctor.'

Scope and Contents

235 x 200 mm. The caption continues: 'After the sucking of air from the horn and final sealing with beeswax it is very tightly attached to the skin. Removal is only made possible by piercing the wax plug with a needle (shown here).'

Scope and Contents

235 x 200 mm. The caption continues: '"I am sure my client will quickly recover!" Despite the absence of modern psychology this 'doctor' believes in checking his patients and giving them an optimistic outlook.'

Scope and Contents

205 x 250 mm.

Scope and Contents

230 x 200 mm.

Scope and Contents

125 x 185 mm.

Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Wicker lobster pots are a feature of all English seaside resorts. The African makes considerable use of wicker traps for all kinds of fish in river, lake and sea.'