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210 x 160 mm. Showing boys sat on the top of a small wooden stockade, which protects the 'chorus' of women chanting and clapping their hands to the accompaniment of a 'zomari' (an instrument somewhat resembling an oboe).

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150 x 2100 mm.

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Showing images of bull fighting and an Arab sword dance.

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150 x 160 mm.

Scope and Contents Various papers, including: programme for an 80th birthday tribute to AFB; guest list and photographs from a House of Commons reception for AFB's 85th birthday, with a message of good wishes from the President of Botswana [Seretse Khama]; Radio Times special issue on the suffragettes, with an article by AFB on his memories of the Pankhursts; text of an article [not by AFB] reporting on a visit to Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1973, particularly relating to racial distribution, progress to...

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210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'The petrol tin or 'Debi' as it is called has a hundred other uses in Africa from roofing houses to transport of water, dates, coconut oil and many other commodities.'

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Collection of monochrome photogravure postcards of scenes in German East Africa. Published by Walther Dobbertin of Harburg.

The majority of the cards have printed on the reverse: 'Shall the heroic deeds of Lettow-Vorbeck and his soldiers in the four-and-a-half year long bloody struggle have been in vain? Join with us in promoting the publication of German East Africa. We need colonies!'.

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232 x 174 mm. A view showing a display of mounted photographs at the exhibition. In the centre of the display can be seen ‘Professor Uhlig’s fine photographic enlargements, perhaps the most noteworthy of which being those representing the summit and glaciers of Kibo, Kilimanjaro, taken by means of a telescopic lense from a neighbouring height, and some exquisite forest scenery’ (‘Zanzibar Gazette’ August 23rd 1905).

Scope and Contents A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...

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Copies of photographs illustrating Satwant Singh Suman's service in the East African Railways. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

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Collection of twenty-nine 60 x 60 mm modern copy negatives (no prints) selected from an album compiled by J.H. Furniss R.A.F (also the photographer). The material relates to air and naval activity against the German battleship ‘Konigsberg’ in Zanzibar and German East Africa during 1915-16, with other general scenes from the German East Africa Campaign. Copy negatives made by John Falconer, May 1985.

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A collection of loose prints copied from stereoscopic views.

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210 x 160 mm.

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160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'The cloves are borne on the ends of the branches all up the sides of the clove tree. The bunches of cloves are picked and collected in palm leaf baskets.' Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

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160 x 210 mm.

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90 x 140 mm. Postcard.

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165 x 125 mm. Stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

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85 x 143 mm. A view looking up towards the top of a palm tree where an African is picking coconuts.

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95 x 73 mm. Showing a group of missionaries seated with cups of tea among a cluster of rocks. Of the five, only Miss Forsythe is identified.

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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No negative. Caption from reverse.

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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194 x 144 mm. Showing a large group of plantation workers, or possibly road building teams, posed on the slope in front of a shed and a house raised on stilts.

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160 x 210 mm. Showing a sisal plantation with mountains in the background.

Scope and Contents From the File: A booklet containing monochrome photogravure postcards of agricultural and industrial scenes in German East Africa. Published by Walther Dobbertin of Harburg.Each card has the following exhortation in German printed on the reverse: 'Our own colonies, our own overseas provinces are essential to Germany. Germans, remember your colonies!'.The captions to the prints are in a form of cursive gothic script which is difficult to decipher: in some cases, therefore, an approximate...