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'From Ugogwe Bay to Mengo on Lake Victoria. Port Alice dhow at anchor for the night. Showing raft and shield on which we landed and tailor birds' nest on tree in water. The rushes in the water are native fish nets.'

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions from K.H. Buxton, who is probably Kathleen Hannah Buxton (1905-1999), daughter of Reverend Leonard Buxton, the Vicar of North Mimms, Hertfordshire.

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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.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

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137 x 97 mm.

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81 x 55 mm.

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148 x 105 mm. A view from the shore looking towards Lake Victoria with tall elephant grass in the foreground; exact location unidentified. The evacuation referred to was Sir Henry Hesketh Bell's decision to depopulate an area two miles wide and several hundred miles long on the shores of Lake Victoria in a largely successful attempt to eradicate the sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda which in some years previous to 1908 was killing 30 000 people a year.

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56 x 42 mm. A view showing passengers on board a steamer. Location unknown, but possibly Lake Victoria.

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56 x 42 mm. A view showing passengers on board a steamer. Location unknown, but possibly Lake Victoria.

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56 x 42 mm. A view showing passengers on board a steamer. Location unknown, but possibly Lake Victoria.

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56 x 42 mm. A view showing passengers on board a steamer. Location unknown, but possibly Lake Victoria.

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56 x 42 mm. A view showing passengers on board a steamer. Location unknown, but possibly Lake Victoria.

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56 x 42 mm. A view showing passengers on board a steamer. Location unknown, but possibly Lake Victoria.

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'Landing stage for Mengo on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza, seven miles from Mengo. Dhow anchored, for the last time. The Uganda canoe, with antelope horns on prow, in which our loads were taken off the dhow.'

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85 x 60 mm. A view showing a group of Africans lowering some kind of boat into a lake. It is not possible to determine what type of craft this is.

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85 x 60 mm. A view showing a group of Africans lowering some kind of boat into a lake. It is not possible to determine what type of craft this is.

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150 x 110 mm. A view showing a sleeping, emaciated man in the terminal stage of sleeping sickness. Christy (1903) describes how this man was carried from his hut without awakening and how all the other members of his family were in a similar condition.

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244 x 136 mm. Showing the small steamer with tourists on board.

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105 x 60mm.

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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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149 x 104 mm. A view looking out over Munyonyo Bay from the shore. Munyonyo is the landing place for Kampala, about eight miles to the north-west.

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245 x 189 mm. Showing the ‘Victoria’ newly entered into service on Lake Victoria.

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100 x 78 mm. Showing a small sailing boat on the Tero Forest Canal.

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66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.

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155 x 113 mm. A view looking across scrubland towards the shores of Lake Victoria with cleared ground and pitched tents in the foreground. Gedge’s map shows the expedition at Sendege on October 22nd but the map and diary do not exactly correspond. The diary entry, for October 26th, which records the first sight of the lake, is probably the more accurate: ‘v. bad walking and then sighted the Lake just below. Descended and camped close to the margin. . .’