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149 x 105 mm. glossy print.

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105 x 149 mm. glossy print.

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105 x 149 mm. glossy print.

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157 x 157 mm. View of the locomotive and goods train which ran from Nairobi to Nanyuki and Sagana.

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External views including one of a band playing.

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80 x 50 mm. A view of Government house still being built (although the structure itself looks finished) to judge from the presence of piles of rubble and general building materials.

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89 x 62 mm.

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115 x 132 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'Lack of Higher Education Is Not a Complete Barrier to African Girls. (See Feature Set Intro. No. 731). Janet Ndoti, during her training in King George V Hospital, Nairobi, has a wide variety of duties. One of her jobs is to sterilise the instruments in the operating theatre. 1/52'.

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Album containing photographs of Entebbe and Kampala, colleagues and friends, travels around the country, and of the people of Uganda, including celebrations for the return of Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda.

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Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

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Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

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Views of the event, with ticket (and its envelope) admitting Mrs Dobinson.

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Prominent subjects include the extent of Bell's powers as Commissioner of Uganda; descriptions of officials, visitors, and African leaders; Bell's social life, recreation and health; attempts to encourage the development of the railways and water transportation; the cultivation of cotton and rubber; accounts of the sleeping sickness epidemic; and descriptions of Entebbe, Kampala and other places he visited (60 sheets).

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Subjects include financial estimates, building plans and the opening of Government House; entertaining and visitors; the hurricane insurance scheme; development of railways, roads, and a new port for Kampala; support for the cotton industry; visits to a Sleeping Sickness camp and an appeal for relief funds in Britain; the outbreak of famine; a visit to the CMS King’s School at Budo; a tour of the eastern provinces of the Protectorate; and a visit to British East Africa (67 sheets).

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195 x 127 mm. Portrait of staff grouped around Mr and Mrs Farmer.

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127 x 79 mm. Maia Carbery standing in front of the plane 'Miss Propaganda', with a man making an adjustment to the front of the plane.

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191 x 244 mm. Showing a demonstrator explaining a diagram on a blackboard to a group of trainees.

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192 x 245 mm. Showing a demonstrator explaining the work of a lathe to a group of trainees.

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190 x 245 mm. Showing rows of trainees at their lathes with two instructors explaining.

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190 x 142 mm. Showing a demonstrator measuring a piece of metal in a lathe with a micrometer.

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Views of the City Charter celebrations, including the procession and ceremony, and the Post Office, Parcel Office, BEAC Building and law courts.

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Views include the mosque, Post Office, city centre, Stanley Hotel, town hall, Macmillan Library, city park, Barclays Bank, new Post Office, 1952 floods, Masonic Hall, East African Railways and Harbours Offices, and bus shelter.

Scope and Contents A 16mm, black-and-white and colour cinefilm, without sound. According to a note kept with the cinefilm (which appears to have been written subsequently, in 1986 by the cataloguer), the first 4min 38sec of the film is probably set in Nairobi, and the mountain seen in subsequent parts of the film is Mt. Kenya. The writing on the film can says 'Kenya 1940, Nairobi, Nyeri, Rift Valley, Karema 13'.0 - 5sec. [Black-and-white] Man seated at a desk positioned ouside by a road.5sec -...

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153 x 98 mm. glossy print with 72 x 47 mm. negative.

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150 x 209 mm. A view looking across meadowland towards the flat plain on which the bungalows of the settlement can be seen. Before railhead reached Nairobi in May 1899 there was no permanent population in the area, but with the decision to make Nairobi the headquarters for railway engineer work the town quickly grew. Photograph by William D Young.