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282 x 208 mm. A view showing the exterior of the single-storied Market Buildings, situated on the west bank of the Creek Canal and opened on August 12th 1904 (see Y30468C/1-3 and 5).

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160 x 210 mm.

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Collection of loose sepia photographs, all but one measuring 212 x 132 mm. The photographs were formerly the property of, and may have been taken by, John Verrinder Shaw, the brother of Professor Thurstan Shaw, and relate to road construction, probably in Morogoro in the 1940s. Though they do not show the same portion of road, numbers 3-10 all depict the same type of road, made by cutting away part of a slope and levelling a wide enough area for limited traffic. There are no captions.

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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77 x 51 mm.

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103 x 59 mm. A view showing sacks of copra being stacked on Zanzibar beach before loading for shipment. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'MA and Co's shipment being stacked on beach preparatory to loading in lighter'.

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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272 x 207 mm. Showing a large crowd of gaily dressed Swahili men and women gathered in the Mnazi Mmoja Recreation Park, Zanzibar, to celebrate the festival of Siku Kuu. The caption 'Sicucu natives feast' is written on the print itself, and is numbered '18'.

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117 x 82 mm. A view looking upstream along a boulder strewn river with an African standing on one bank. Several tall trees have fallen across the river in the background.

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118 x 85 mm. A view looking upstream along a boulder strewn river with dense forest vegetation on either bank.

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130 x 130 mm. The caption continues: 'Watercraft of all kinds, gaily decorated, greet the Sultan on his return from Pemba.'

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This collection includes copies of 29 speeches given by Chande between 1961 and 2009 on the subjects of business, community service, the environment, Freemasonry, politics and tourism, and copies of his autobiography and collected works:

‘A knight in Africa: journey from Bukene' (2008)

‘Transitions of a life: collected works by JK Chande’ (2011)

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

Scope and Contents 115 x 160 mm A seated portrait showing Mathews in uniform and wearing decorations. Mathews (1850-1901) entered the Royal Navy in 1863 and after service in the Ashanti Campaign of 1873-4 was stationed aboard H.M.S.S ‘London’ on slave trade suppression on the East coast of Africa. In 1877 he was selected to command and retrain Sultan Barghash of Zanzibar’s army and in 1892 became Prime Minister and Treasurer of Zanzibar. For photographs of his funeral see Y30468A/39-41. This photograph is used...

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110 x 110 mm. Showing young boys hanging sisal out to dry. The caption continues: 'After the fibres have been separated from the sisal leaves, young workers lay it over wires to dry in the sun.'

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...

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Photographs showing the cultivation, treatment and export of sisal.

Scope and Contents 220 x 165 mm. View of sisal growing beside a road. The caption continues: 'Full grown sisal after the first cutting has been taken. The pole is the ultimate function of the plant and after it has grown no more leaves are available.' A further explanatory note reads: 'Sisal growing in Africa. Sisal fibre from Kenya, used before the war for binder twine, shop twine and hessian and gunny baga has become an important war priority since the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. ...

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165 x 210 mm. Showing full-grown sisal after the first cutting has been taken.

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166 x 114 mm. Showing the fibre being hung out on drying lines. The caption on the reverse reads 'After decortification the fibre is laid out in the sun to dry and be bleached. Providing conditions are favourable during the dry season the fibres are dried in twelve hours'.

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215 x 165 mm. General view, with mountains in the distance.

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215 x 165 mm. General view, with mountains in the distance.

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Showing growing sisal silhouetted against the sky. The annotation on the reverse reads 'At the end of the life of a plant from five to nine years; depending on the spacing in the fields, the plant poles and dies'.