Victoria, Lake (lake)
Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:
Our second landing on the shores of Victoria Nyanza, 1900-03-25
'Showing fishing baskets (on principle of lobster pots) and canoes. Green awning (made from one of our tent ground sheets). Archie (Mrs Lloyd's boy bailing)'. Notes from a previous page, perhaps intended for a missing watercolour, describe the initial voyage, 'Groundsheet for awning, at first lay on bare boards with bed bags as bolsters, afterwards got our pillows, mattresses etc., got on board at midnight, rowed out to it in dugouts, on dhow seven English passengers, twelve boys.'
Our view from the cottage over Lake Victoria, 1955
55 x 50 mm.
Port Bell, Lake Victoria, 1949
Includes views of the arrival of ‘The Solent’ Flying Boat and the Regional Director's Office, Kampala.
Port Victoria 1899, 1899
Port Victoria 1899, 1899
Ripon Falls from West, c. 1890-1906, 1977
202 x 140 mm. A rather dark print looking across the falls to the far bank of the Victoria Nile. Photograph by Benjamin Whitehouse.
Scientists help Lake Victoria's fishermen. Researchers plumb the depths of Africa's biggest lake, 1953-03
Shores of Victoria Nyanza, S. Kavirondo, 1889-10-28
155 x 113 mm. A view looking along the rock strewn lake shore. Gedge records in his diary: ‘In the afternoon I took a photo of the shores of the lake.’ LS/12.
[Sleeping sickness and starvation, Buvuma Island 1902], 1902
157 x 112 mm. View showing a large group of Africans suffering from a combination of sleeping sickness and starvation on Buvuma Island at the northern end of Lake Victoria. Dr. Christy was a member of the 1902 Commission sent to investigate outbreaks of sleeping sickness in Busoga.
[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902
110 x 155 mm. A rear view of an African showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.
[Sleeping sickness sores, Buvuma 1902], 1902
111 x 155 mm. A rear view of two emaciated Africans showing the deep sores which develop in the later stages of the disease.
[Sleeping sickness sores, probably at Buvuma 1902], 1902
109 x 154 mm. A view showing an emaciated African seated on the ground, his body covered with the deep sores developed in the later stages of the disease.
Small Fleet of Canoes. Port Victoria 1899, 1899
[Source of the Nile, leaving Lake Victoria at Jinja], 1934
Steel Boat leaving Port Victoria for Entebbe 1899, 1899
Storks on Lake Victoria, 1933 - 1950
165 x 195 mm. A view of two storks stood in shallow water.
The dhow, 1900-03-26
'The dhow (with green amateur awning constructed from one of the tents) anchored in the rushes while we landed for lunch. On third day, becalmed. Got on to shore on two Masai hide shields. Boys made fire in bow of boat.'
The end of the ‘Clement Hill’, ‘Winifred’, and ‘Hussein’, Bukakata Causeway, Sesse Islands, Lake Victoria, after 1936, 1977
204 x 154 mm. Showing the scrapped hulls of these steamers lined along the waterfront as a breakwater. The ‘Winifred’ was launched in 1904 and the ‘Clement Hill’ two years later (the date for the ‘Hussein’ is unknown). These boats, in company with the ‘Winifreds’ sister ‘Sybil’, played a major part in cargo and passenger transport on Lake Victoria until they were scrapped in 1936.
The lake steamer arriving from the Tanganyika side, 1955
55 x 50mm.
The ‘Vice Admiral’, c. 1898, 1977
199 x 135 mm. Showing the ship under sail with a crew of Africans and a European (Benjamin Whitehouse?) at the helm.
Uganda: Lake Victoria, Bob Edwards and Drakes, Kiwala Hotel, Masaka, 1943
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
Uganda: Lake Victoria, Bob Edwards, calling Lutembe the crocodile, old gun overlooking Kampala, 1943
Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.
[? Ugandan African 1902], 1902
155 x 110 mm. A view showing an African man, possibly a sleeping sickness sufferer, seated on the ground in front of his hut (probably on the island of Buvuma).
Usoga Canoe. Port Victoria 1899, 1899
‘Vice Admiral’ before the wind, c. 1898, 1977
200 x 148 mm. View looking along the ship from the stern, taken while sailing on Lake Victoria and showing the African crew resting beside their oars. Photograph by Benjamin Whitehouse.