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119 x 82 mm. glossy print.

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108 x 154 mm. glossy print. From left to right are: Canon Yonathani Sougola and Pastor Filemoni, with Pastor Yosiya in front.

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115 x 120 mm. Showing the framework of a small boat.

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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A diary describing Le Sueur's time in Africa, November 1997 - April 1998, 190 pages with a two-page index. The volume covers the journey out (pp. 1-3), Kenya (4-65), Tanzania (65-85), Malawi (65-98), Zimbabwe (99-113), Namibia (113-125), South Africa (126-152, 157-172 and 174-184), Lesotho (152-157), Swaziland (172-174) and the journey home (184-188).

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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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85 x 143 mm. Showing the many branched and spiky leaved Borassus palm.

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130 x 115 mm. The caption continues: Small boys display a remarkable aptitude for the manufacture of toy models. In the picture is a model bus made almost entirely from strips of fibre from the raffia palm. The smallest details are often accurately copied.'

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

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170 x 120 mm.

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102 x 74 mm (oval print). Showing the family and another unidentified European seated round a table.

Content Description Comprises a navigator's log and news cuttings relating to motor rally racing in East Africa in 1969. Together with a seperate small collection of news cuttings, publications and a school magazine, 'The Daily Drum', created by the Virginia Mull, daughter of Brian Mull, while a student. There are a handful of references relating to Mull's career as a teacher. John Brian Mull (1919-1975) was posted to Tanganyika (Tanzania) in 1950 as an Education Officer (Science) by the British Overseas Civil...

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Date and caption taken from the reverse.

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113 x 86 mm. A dark print looking down onto a bridge in the process of being built across a small gorge.

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117 x 81 mm. Showing stone foundations being constructed between two sections of railway embankment.

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201 x 150 mm. A view looking across the Residency garden towards the white crenellated building situated in the southern part of the town near the Victoria Gardens. The house was bilt for A.S. Rogers in 1903 for the designs of J.H. Sinclair.

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137 x 64 mm (both sections of stereo print). Showing the old British Consulate and the waterfront at Zanzibar, with dhows anchored in the harbour beyond.

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207 x 150 mm. A similar view to Y30468C/23 showing B.S. Cave, Captain Baker Baker and Judge Lindsey Smith arriving for the Grand Baroza to celebrate the Sultan’s coming of age.

Scope and Contents 235 x 171 mm. A view from the palace steps showing a procession of English officials arriving at the Beit el Ajaib for the Grand Baraza. In the front row left to right are B.S Cave, Consul-General, Captain Baker in command of ‘Terpsichore’ and Lindsey Smith, judge in the court of Zanzibar. The uniformed officials behind are probably officers from HMS ‘Terpsichore’. At the Baraza speeches were made by B.S. Cave and by representatives of different sections of the community, announcing the...

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291 x 214 mm. A view from the sea to the south of Zanzibar Town looking towards the British Residency. The building flying a flag to the left of the Residency is the French Mission.

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233 x 165 mm. A view showing the decorative wrought-iron gates of the British Residency.

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274 x 201 mm. A view looking over the recently laid out gardens towards the Residency building. A view probably taken shortly after the completion of the building in 1903. For a brief note on the Residency see Y30468C/35.

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216 x 149 mm. A view from the waterfront showing the British fleet at anchor in Zanzibar harbour with rowing boats and lighters moored in the foreground. Photograph probably by Gomes and Coutinho.

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94 x 78 mm. A view showing two white-uniformed figures descending the steps outside the front entrance of the Beit el Ajaib (see Y30468/1). The figure on the right is possibly Basil Shillito Cave, British Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar from 1904-1909.