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General view from a hillside looking down onto a sisal estate, with fields of growing sisal in the foreground. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'To the left may be seen the decorticated sisal drying on wires, the white houses on the right are the houses of the labour'.

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62 x 40 mm.

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Showing a pile of harvested pods in the foreground (crop unidentified) with two women working a large pestle and mortar in the background.

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98 x 71 mm. Showing a pile of harvested pods in the foreground (crop unidentified) with two women working a large pestle and mortar in the background. Two copies.

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The diary (circa 80 pages) describes Christy's tours of inspection for the Sleeping Sickness Commission and includes some zoological observations.

Scope and Contents Diaries, notes and reports recording Christy's research for the first Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission in Africa. The medical expedition was a response to the spreading Uganda Sleeping Sickness epidemic of 1901. Its aim was to elucidate the role of the Filaria perstans parasite in causing the disease. Christy travelled widely in Uganda, British and German East Africa, and the upper Sudan to map the distributions of the parasite and the disease. His findings were important in...

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168 x 123 mm.

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201 x 152 mm. A view looking across the garden of the old Headquarters of the Universities Mission to Central Africa towards the Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ. Built under the supervision of Bishop Steere (Bishop of Zanzibar 1874-1882), the cathedral stands on the site of the last market for enslaved persons in Zanzibar and was completed in 1879.

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81 x 107 mm. A view showing a nun walking along a road near the Universities Mission to Central Africa buildings with the spire of the Anglican Cathedral in the background.

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59 x 102 mm. A view showing an unidentified Arab, probably a servant or employee of Chandler's, standing outside his house.

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115 x 159 mm. A view showing an unidentified baby, possibly a child of A.E.H. Raikes (see Y30468D/59).

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115 x 159 mm. A view showing an unidentified baby, possibly a child of A.E.H. Raikes (see Y30468D/59.

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119 x 95 mm. A view showing an unidentified British naval vessel anchored off Zanzibar.

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233 x 210 mm. A view showing a large, square white building, probably a hospital. A group of Africans and a uniformed European stand at the front entrance.

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111 x 82 mm. Showing a white-suited European standing on a garden path at the foot of a flight of steps leading down from a verandah.

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81 x 112 mm. Showing a dark-suited European standing in a garden.

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94 x 79 mm.

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118 x 85 mm. Showing a large unidentified building with chimneys in the background.

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81 x 117 mm. A view looking towards the verandah of a thatched stone house where an unidentified European is standing.

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120 x 92 mm. A view showing an unidentified steamer off Zanzibar.

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117 x 92 mm. A view showing an unidentified steamer off Zanzibar.

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205 x 158 mm. A view looking along a sandy, tree lined street with single storey whitewashed residential buildings on either side. Location unidentified but probably in German East Africa.

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82 x 108 mm. Slightly underexposed. Showing an unidentified woman standing in a garden with Hellmut in her arms.

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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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210 x 160 mm.