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Scenes showing people (mostly women) fetching and carrying water and preparing grain. Only eight of the twenty-seven images (those which are captioned), are described below.

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82 x 117 mm. Showing an unidentified European reading at a desk in a room cluttered with furniture.

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202 x 150 mm. A view showing three Arabs with their loaded donkeys on a country road. The Mshihiri Arabs come from the Hadhramaut on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula.

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72 x 98 mm. Indistinct view of a carved Arab doorway.

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54 x 76 mm. An doorway in a building, probably in Zanzibar.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...

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230 x 105 mm.

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266 x 210 mm. A view showing the palatial British Residency drawing-room. The high walls are decorated with antelope horns, spears and other artefacts, with an ornately carved wooden gallery overlooking the room. The heavy wooden furniture is also elaborately carved in the Arab style, with Zanzibar Chests against the wall.

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208 x 151 mm. A similar view to Y30468C/27.

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291 x 216 mm. A similar, though inferior view of Y30468C/27. The furniture is rather differently arranged in this print.

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 Views mostly of cloves being laid out to dry. Wilson provides information about clove farming on the back of some of these photographs: "Young helpers at clove harvest. Women and children all help in the urgent business of clove harvest. Here are some children sitting on the concrete drying floor separating cloves from stems.""Clove pickers sitting beside a large concrete drying floor ('Sakafu') where the clove buds are spread out to dry in the sun. In good...

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215 x 155 mm. The caption continues: ‘The cloves are spread out thinly on concrete floors or on mats in the sun. Under good weather conditions they are dry in four or five days. They turn from a pink green colour to the familiar dark brown.' Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'On loan' by both Dorien Leigh Ltd.' and also 'The Mansell Collection.'

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215 x 165 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

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205 x 155 mm.

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210 x 160 mm.

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165 x 120 mm. The caption continues: 'Clove pickers sitting beside a large concrete drying floor ('Sakafu') where the clove buds are spread out to dry in the sun. In good sunny weather this may be achieved in four days. In cloudy or rainy weather it will take longer and the uality may be affected.' Photograph stamped on the reverse (twice) with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

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135 x 78 mm. A view showing copra drying on the flat roof of a house. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'More copra can be seen drying in background on the roofs'.

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135 x 78 mm. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Drying on the flat roof of HB's house. Tarpaulin at sides drawn over at night or in rains'.

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135 x 78 mm.

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135 x 78 mm. A view showing copra drying in the sun in front of a corrugated-iron warehouse. In the foreground Leitch is taking a photograph. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'More drying'.

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135 x 78 mm. Chandler having his photograph taken among the drying copra. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Zanzibar copra King. Je ne pense pas. This is on the roof of HB's house'.

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59 x 103 mm. Very blurred. A view showing an African standing among drying copra.

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103 x 59 mm. A view showing copra spread out to dry on the enclosed courtyard on the roof of HB's house. HB remains unidentified.