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205 x 153 mm. Showing the drawing room of a house, presumably that in Y30468S/31. The mount shares a similar imprint.

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79 x 104 mm.

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207 x 153 mm. Showing two of the kiosks which housed small businesses and stood at the corners of the main squares. These probably stood on the Rua D.Luiz on the northern end of the Praça Mousinho D’Albuquerque, with the Governor’s Secretary’s building and the Civil Police Station in the background. If this is so, then the absence of tram lines would date the print to pre-1904. Signed ‘J.Lazarus Photo.’

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Diaries and notes written by Christy during his leadership of the British Museum exploring and zoological expedition to Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa.

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167 x 114 mm. [Missing]. A print mounted on card, showing a similar portion of the town and harbour of Lorenco Marques as in Y305J/131. Some of the turrets of the Old Armoury (largely concealed by a hill) can be seen at the extreme right of the print.

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207 x 152 mm. A general view of Lorenco Marques from the sandhills behind the town. The Old Armoury stands in the foreground with the wharf area and harbour beyond.

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205 x 156 mm. View from the sandy hills to the northeast looking down on to Lourenço Marques and the estuary of the English River as it enters Delagoa Bay. The old Powder Magazine is in the foreground with wharfs and the dock area beyond. Signed ‘J. Lazarus. Photo.’

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145 x 90 mm.

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153 x 207 mm. Study of a Chopi girl, with hair shaved round the head up to the level of the temples, seated on a rock by a river. She wears a beadwork necklace and loincloth and bracelets on the wrist and upper arm. Signed ‘J. & M. L.’

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...

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193 x 130 mm. A view looking along the waterfront at Mozambique with a square and bandstand in the background.

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The print is initialled 'SA'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A printed book containing tipped-in reproductions from photographs, all measuring 140 x 100 mm, with brief letterpress captions beneath the prints. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. The prints are grainy with high contrast. Consequently, the images are listed rather than described in detail, although occasional notes and cross-references on points of interest have been added. The process used in the reproductions has not...

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206 x 152 mm. Showing a group of Chopi men performing a stick dance, watched by a crowd of women in the foreground. The meaning of ‘mshongolo’ has not been determined but is possibly a corruption or earlier form of ‘msahone’, the Chopi term for a dancing place or performance. See Hugh Tracey, ‘Chopi musicians, their music, poetry and instruments’ (London, 1970), pp. 85-6. Signed ‘J. & M. Lazarus, Photos’.

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A collection of new cuttings relating to Gray's African research, including extracts from the 1880s and 1890s.

Scope and Contents Seventy-nine pages of newscuttings from 'The Beira News and East Coast Chronicle' concerning East Africa, particularly its industry and commerce. The principal topics are the maize market, Zambesi coalfields, the political and economic future of Rhodesia, including the role of the British South Africa Company in the region, Nyasaland tobacco, and the development of ports and railways, notably at Beira and in Rhodesia. Other countries featured in the scrapbook include the Belgian Congo,...

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191 x 140 mm. View from near the seashore up towards the hill on which the magazine stands. Signed ‘J.E.M. Photo’.

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199 x 150 mm.

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207 x 152 mm. Showing the wooden passenger pier at Lourenço Marques with small boats moored beside it and steamers at anchor in the harbour. Signed ‘J & M Lazarus, Photos’.

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Two photograph albums chronicling Wallis' period of employment with the colonial service and a folder of biographical information assembled by the donor.

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207 x 153 mm. View from above Lourenço Marques looking along the foreshore towards the headland of Reuben Point with residential houses on top of the hillside. Signed ‘J.Lazarus Photo.’

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204 x 155 mm. Showing the single storey building with a flagstaff behind and the harbour beyond. Above the verandah is the legend ‘Capitania Do Porto’. Photograph taken from the Rue Do Tte. Almeida just north of the Passenger Pier. Signed ‘J & M Lazarus. Lourenço Marques’.

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204 x 155 mm. Showing the prison block situated at the junction of the Avenida Dom Carlos and the Avenida Castilho. The partially completed tramlines date the photograph to some time before Feb. 1904 when the tramway system was opened. Signed ‘J.Lazarus Photo’.

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205 x 130 mm. View looking over a garden towards a bungalow with a corrugated iron roof and carved wooden verandahs on which stand two European men and a woman. The mount bears the legend ‘Wishing you a happy New Year’ and is also stamped ‘C. Manners’, presumably the photographer’s name, though he is not listed in the ‘Delagoa Directory’ between 1899 and 1926.

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Offprints, drafts and research notes of articles Gray published in ‘Uganda Journal’, ‘Tanganyika notes and records’ and other periodicals.