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...

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.

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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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A view showing a group of Indian and Swahili spectators.

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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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155 x 200 mm.

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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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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.

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211 x 154 mm. A view showing the Sultan’s empty coach in the Exhibition grounds, with a group of European officials in the background.

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243 x 198 mm. A view looking west along the waterfront road towards the Sultan's palace, the Beit-el-Ajeib (not visible), with the hull of a ship (history unknown) mounted beside the road. The lighthouse seen here in front of the Beit-el-Ajeib was damaged in the bombardment of 1896. The Sultan's living quarters the Beit-el-Ajeib being primarily ceremonial rather than residential, were to the rear of the house seen beyond the prow of the ship.

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212 x 154 mm. A view showing a group of brightly clothed Swahili women dancing and waving sticks, probably in the Mnazi Mmoja Recreation Park during the celebration of Siku Kuu, the ‘Great Day’ at the end of the month of Ramadan.

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215 x 153 mm. A view looking along a row of Swahili women dancers wearing headdresses of leaves and feathers and with their faces painted white. Probably taken in the Mnazi Mmoja at Siku Kuu (see Y30468B/34).