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208 x 152 mm. A view showing a display of drums, weapons and animal skulls at the exhibition. This is probably the collection lent by A.S. Rogers and noted in the ‘Zanzibar Gazette’ for August 23rd 1905.

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210 x 150 mm. A view showing the Deutsch Ostafrikanis Gesellschaft display of sisal hemp. This stall, exhibited by the Plantage Kikogwe, won a second prize (‘Zanzibar Gazette’, September 1905).

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Scenes showing people (mostly women) fetching and carrying water and preparing grain. Only eight of the twenty-seven images (those which are captioned), are described below.

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230 x 105 mm.

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266 x 210 mm. A view showing the palatial British Residency drawing-room. The high walls are decorated with antelope horns, spears and other artefacts, with an ornately carved wooden gallery overlooking the room. The heavy wooden furniture is also elaborately carved in the Arab style, with Zanzibar Chests against the wall.

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208 x 151 mm. A similar view to Y30468C/27.

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291 x 216 mm. A similar, though inferior view of Y30468C/27. The furniture is rather differently arranged in this print.

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215 x 155 mm. The caption continues: ‘The cloves are spread out thinly on concrete floors or on mats in the sun. Under good weather conditions they are dry in four or five days. They turn from a pink green colour to the familiar dark brown.' Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'On loan' by both Dorien Leigh Ltd.' and also 'The Mansell Collection.'

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

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205 x 155 mm.

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210 x 160 mm.

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165 x 120 mm. The caption continues: 'Clove pickers sitting beside a large concrete drying floor ('Sakafu') where the clove buds are spread out to dry in the sun. In good sunny weather this may be achieved in four days. In cloudy or rainy weather it will take longer and the uality may be affected.' Photograph stamped on the reverse (twice) with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

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Images of child and adult education and an African medicine man at work.

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206 x 282 mm. A duplicate of Y3047A/8.

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Papers by Fergus Wilson and others, including four articles by Dr G. Rangaswami, Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.

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160 x 105 mm. The caption continues: 'A very popular use for empty petrol tins is for 'thatching' the roofs of native type houses. The roof is put on with considerable skill.'

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150 x 105 mm. The caption continues: 'In this picture the quay in Zanzibar is seen stacked with tins ready for Dhow shipment to the northern island of Pemba.'

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229 x 168 mm. A view showing the pillared entrance hallway of the Residency with a stone staircase in the foreground.

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289 x 215 mm. A view showing the wrought-iron entrance to the Residency, part of the hallway and the stone staircase. A uniformed servant is seated at the foot of the stairs.

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280 x 213 mm. A view showing the wrought iron entrance, pillared hallway and stairs of the British Residency. A uniformed servant stands on duty beside the stairs.

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62 x 40 mm.

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80 x 55 mm.

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160 x 105 mm. The caption continues: 'The coral limestone country of the East and South of Zanzibar Island are characterised by large caves. Fine examples of stalactites and stalacmites are often seen and, of course, these caves are often the home of hoardes of bats. This picture shows the entrance to one of the caves which is very nothing more than a hole in the ground with a fifteen or twenty foot drop to the floor.'

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212 x 150 mm. Showing a group of five Europeans, probably at the British Residency in Zanzibar. Standing at the left is Basil Cave with Mrs Mary Cave (nee McClellan) seated in a wicker chair in front of him. At the left of the group is John Houston Sinclair (1871-1961) at this period Vice Consul at Zanzibar and later Consul (1906). The remaining two figures are unidentified.