Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'At first when African farmers saw European devoting time and labour to manuring their lands they regarded it as another instance of white man's folly. But they began to notice that the white men's fields grew more and better produce and for years the Agricultural Officers of the Government patiently explained to the Africans how the land must be fed...

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210 x 160 mm.

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205 x 160 mm.

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199 x 143 mm. A view looking back along the wide Kampala road towards Entebbe with a group of Ugandans lined across the road in the foreground. The neatly laid out group of huts to the right of the road is the Police and Marine Lines.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'At first when African farmers saw European devoting time and labour to manuring their lands they regarded it as another instance of white man's folly. But they began to notice that the white men's fields grew more and better produce and for years the Agricultural Officers of the Government patiently explained to the Africans how the land must be fed...

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Showing a European agricultural officer standing in a field of under-nourished maize plants, the result of a lack of proper manuring. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'This is the kind of crop which is all to[o] common in the native reserves. Nothing is being done to restore the fertility of the soil'.

Scope and Contents Makerere was opened by the Government as a technical school in 1922, and two years later a class for training medical assistants was added. In 1926 responsibility for technical training transferred from Makerere to the Kampala Training College and Makerere became a general training college. A commission of inquiry into education in East Africa recommended in 1937 that steps should be taken to transform Makerere into a college of higher education and in 1950 Makerere became a university...

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130 x 85 mm. A view from the road looking towards the Faculty of Arts building and the main administrative building.

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205 x 155 mm. Elevated view of the college buildings and surrounding town.

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210 x 160 mm. Interior of the library, showing a man using the subject catalogue card index.

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150 x 110 mm. Two men looking at a book.

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Black and white photographs of the university's faculty and college buildings.

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Mainly black and white photographs of students and staff, and faculty buildings and classrooms.

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Black and white photographs of university buildings, students and produce. In 1953 Professor Fergus Wilson negotiated the purchase of a 330 acre estate and embarked on the task of turning it into a standard university farm, now known as Kabanyolo farm.

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Ten black and white photographs and eighteen negatives of students and professors at work in the classroom.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'African farmers with any manure surplus to their own requirements find a ready sale for it at the L.N.C. buying centre. The manure being brought in'.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'African farmers with any manure surplus to their own requirements find a ready sale for it at the L.N.C. buying centre. The manure being brought in'.

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Showing a group of women emptying tins of manure onto a plot of land prior to planting.

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210 x 155 mm.

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210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Women students and members of an Extra Mural course at lunch.'

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210 x 160 mm. Women students and members of an Extra Mural course at lunch.

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255 x 205 mm. Women students and members of an Extra Mural course at lunch.

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210 x 160 mm. Women students and members of an Extra Mural course at lunch.

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210 x 160 mm. Women students and members of an Extra Mural course at lunch.

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Showing two women learning to read. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The women, with husbands away at work on the mines, take more enthusiastically to learning than the men. They want to be able to write to their husbands asking for more money, and what about that fancy piece he has been seen with round the Indian stores!'.