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Head and shoulders portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bakongo girl after [illegible word] near Mahagi Port on Lake Albert'.

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Full-length portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bakongo girl after [illegible word] near Mahagi Port on Lake Albert'.

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Head and shoulders portrait. The caption on the album page reads: 'Bakongo girl after [illegible word] near Mahagi Port on Lake Albert'.

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135 x 110 mm.

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative. The boat behind Taylor bears the inscriptions 'Jesus first, money afterwards' and 'Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved', painted by its Christian owner.

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These letters record Bell’s tour of southern and western Uganda, including visits to the kingdoms of Ankole and Toro. They describe the terrain, natural history, African peoples and European missionaries he encountered during his travels (28 sheets).

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Letters to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton from Sir Samuel Baker and Sir Roderick Murchison. There is a covering letter from Mrs M.C. Ponsonby, 8 February 1939, presenting the letters to the R.C.S., and the Librarian's reply, 9 February 1939. The folder also includes 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 19 (July 1958), comprising the article 'Sir Samuel Baker and the slave trade', which transcribes the letters and comments on them.

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245 x 188 mm. Showing the paddle steamer transporting a barge on Lake Albert. It was a replacement for ‘Lugard I’ (1927-1948) and saw service on the lake from 1948-1964. It was the only side paddle steamer used by the Lake service.

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...

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Showing Bell and an unidentified figure, probably Frank Burton, standing on open land near a settlement of small thatched huts.

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88 x 75 mm. Showing two sailing vessels near the shores of Lake Albert.

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84 x 82 mm. Showing the steam launch Kenia on Lake Albert.

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Showing the steam launch Kenia on Lake Albert.

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245 x 188 mm. Showing the steamer moored on Lake Albert. Its career covered 1930-1964.

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159 x 114 mm. Showing the P.S. 'Samuel Baker', dressed with flags, at anchor on Lake Albert.

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107 x 70 mm. A view looking across grassland towards Tonya Bay on the eastern shore of Lake Albert.

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A scrapbook album containing prints by various photographers, including Alfred Lobo. The prints are of various sizes and the majority are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Among the scenes and events depicted in the album are the Kampala Exhibition of 1908, views of Government House, Entebbe, the visit of Winston Churchill to Uganda in 1907, sleeping sickness sufferers in Uganda and durbars in Northern Nigeria.

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125 x 91 mm. Showing the three vessels at anchor on Lake Albert

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.