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246 x 192 mm. Showing the Lloyd Triestino Line vessel ‘Europa’ being escorted out of Dar es Salaam Harbour by the tug ‘Nyati’.

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247 x 175 mm. Showing the moored steamer with a dhow in the foreground.

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210 x 160 mm. Showing a man at work on a sisal estate.

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160 x 210 mm. Showing a man stacking bundles of freshly cut sisal beside the plantation.

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180 x 115 mm. Group portrait including from left to right: locomotive drivers Satwant Singh Suman and Karnail Singh, locomotive inspector Yunge Mwansale, locomotive driver M.J. Din, and firemen Lazaro Kimangu and William Mandioro.

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154 x 108 mm. A view showing stalagmite formations at the entrance to an unidentified cave.

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 The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms.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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105 x 75 mm.

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155 x 200 mm.

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Collection of miscellaneous monochrome postcards of scenes in German East Africa (now Tanzania). The cards are issued by Walther Dobbertin, Dar es Salaam and Tanga (76-79, 81-87), C. Vicenti, Dar es Salaam (88, 90), The Standard P. and P. Works, Nairobi and Mombasa (91), the remainder unknown.

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135 x 78 mm. A view looking along a street lined with residential houses in Dar es Salaam.

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135 x 78 mm. A view looking along a street in Dar es Salaam with a rickshaw man in the foreground.

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135 x 78 mm. A view looking along a tree-lined Avenue (?Acacia Avenue) in Dar es Salaam.

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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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77 x 130 mm. Underexposed. A view looking along a narrow street in the west part of Zanzibar Town. The road leading to Chandler's house is marked by a cross. With a brief letter to his son Michael on the back of the print.

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212 x 151 mm. A view looking along a road in Zanzibar and showing Swahili women carrying water cans and other loads on their heads.

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Images of roadside stores selling fruit, pots, furniture and paints, and a man selling coffee from a portable canteen.

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Collection of miscellaneous monochrome postcards of scenes in German East Africa (now Tanzania). The cards are issued by Walther Dobbertin, Dar es Salaam and Tanga (76-79, 81-87), C. Vicenti, Dar es Salaam (88, 90), The Standard P. and P. Works, Nairobi and Mombasa (91), the remainder unknown.

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59 x 102 mm. A view showing Sudi, a Swahili, wearing his Leslie and Anderson uniform and fez. His jacket is monogrammed L and A over the breast.

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68 x 52 mm. A view showing A.S. Rogers and the Sultan standing along a uniformed group at the Exhibition.

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221 x 177 mm. A view showing the Sultan’s carriage and mounted escort arriving at the Sports Ground for the two-day event which marked the end of the coming of age celebrations. The order of events and the results can be found in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for June 28th 1905.

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77 x 103 mm. An indistinct view showing the Sultan’s carriage on the Creek Road with crowds lining the pavement and the Creek in the background.

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

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230 x 170 mm. A view from above the Palace Square looking towards the harbour where a longboat flying the red flag of Zanzibar is returning towards the Palace Pier. Crowds line the waterfront while smoke issues from guns firing a 21 gun salute in answer to that of ‘Terpsichore’. The visit is described in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for June 21st 1905.

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107 x 82 mm A seated studio portrait of the young Sultan of Zanzibar, wearing ceremonial robes and a turban and with a sword held across his lap. Seyyid Ali was sultan from 1902-1911 (under the regency of A.S. Rogers from 1902-05). He abdicated in 1911 and lived in Paris until his death in 1918.