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Collection of monochrome postcards (original photographs) of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) scenes. Published by A.C. Gomes and Son, Dar es Salaam.

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Showing a small narrow gauge locomotive and trucks loaded with sisal outside the estate factory.

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117 x 82 mm. Showing the completed dam with water pouring over the top and with a man and woman on a rocky outcrop in front of the weir.

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105 x 78 mm. Showing a group of five Europeans sitting on boulders beside the Sigi River, with the slackwater dam and weir in the background.

Scope and Contents 102 x 47 mm (both sections of stereo print). A view looking across the open market place towards dilapidated building, with enslaved persons seated in the right foreground. Grant's note beneath the print reads: 'Slave market-place, Zanzibar - very difficult to take - slaves and arabs keep running away leaving only a line of women slaves whose legs and a face or two may be observed - the women's entire dress is a blue cotton sheet or cloth tied tight under arms and extending as far as the...

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides. The collection includes slides by Miss Margaret Laing, who served in CMS hospitals in Ngora/Ongino and Kumi, Uganda, during 1929-48. Items 17-23 are by Laing and 24-28 are probably hers as well.

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95 x 70 mm. A view showing the slow bicycle race in progress at the celebration Athletics Sports.

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170 x 120 mm. There is a Dorien Leigh Limited 'Photograph on loan' stamp on the reverse.

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274 x 209 mm. A view showing a small dining room in the Residency with a side-board and plates lined along the walls and a table laid out for six in the foreground.

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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215 x 165 mm. View of a hillside. The caption continues: 'Contour 'hedges' and live wash stops as an aid to controlling soil erosion in the Usambara mountains. Many slopes as steep as these should not, in fact, be under arable cultivation at all but under the natural forest cover. Resettlement of the people, however, raises many problems.'

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215 x 165 mm. View of a hillside. The caption continues: 'Steeply sloping land in the Usumbara mountains which once was covered with forest. It has been denuded by clearing, burning, cultivation whilst much of its soil has been lost by erosion.'

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155 x 195 mm. Showing a large pile of small rocks on a hillside. Stops, to control soil erosion.

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155 x 195 mm. Showing a large pile of small rocks on a hillside. Stops, to control soil erosion.

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215 x 160 mm. Showing men and cattle at a watering point. The caption continues: ' A cattle drinking point in semi-arid ranching country. Overgrazing and trampling in these areas cause serious erosion.' Photograph by H. J. Van Rensburg.

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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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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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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!'.

Scope and Contents An album containing prints of various sizes. The album consists of two separate volumes which have been bound together. The two original volumes break down geographically thus: Volume 1: 1-12 Madeira; 13-23 Lisbon; 24-69 South Africa.Volume 2: 70-76 South Africa; 77-103 German East Africa (now Tanzania) and Zanzibar.The prints in volume 1 and some in volume 2 have typewritten captions pasted below the photographs. The captions have been used as titles and may contain...

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Forty-five black and white photographs relating to the Aid tour of 1950. There are 27 captioned portrait photographs of the members of the tour party taken c. 1948-1950. The remaining images comprise group pictures and scenes from the schoolboys' time in Africa, some labelled and dated, including two mounted on card. There is an accompanying manuscript list of names.

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A view showing a group of Indian and Swahili spectators.

Scope and Contents Includes: notes for AFB's speech to the Indian Law Association, June 1973, on the recognition of citizenship and the rights of immigration; notes for the debate in the House of Lords, June 1973, on capitalism versus socialism, including a Labour Party papers on reforming capital taxation and economic equality; summary and conclusions of a report on Zanzibar [Tanzania], particularly relating to the assassination of Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar, in 1972 [see also FEBR 2/15]; Labour...

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210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Every cave in Zanzibar contains one or more 'Mzimu' or spirits who must be treated with great respect by those who use the cave, to fetch water etc. The picture shows offerings of one kind and another made to the spirit of a cave.'

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135 x 78 mm. A view showing an African at work splitting coconuts (out of focus), with piles of split coconuts in the foreground.