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81 x 81 mm.

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Showing the Government lorry standing in front of Government House, Entebbe.

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88 x 72 mm. Showing the Government lorry standing in front of Government House, Entebbe.

Scope and Contents 198 x 139 mm. Showing Sir Henry Hesketh Bell, accompanied by officials, walking beneath an arch of palms on Entebbe Pier on his return from sick leave in England, October 28 1907. From left to right the group comprises Captain Frank BURTON, the Governor's A.D.C.; Sir Henry Hesketh BELL; (later Sir) Alexander George BOYLE (1872-1943), Provincial Commissioner, Eastern Province 1905-1910; George WILSON and Captain Edward Vaughan JENKINS DSO (-1941), King's African Rifles. (possible arrival,...

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80 x 80 mm. Showing Bell seated in a howdah on Futki the elephant's back, with the mahout Shief Munshi seated on the animal's neck and the syce (groom) standing to one side. With Government House in the background.

Scope and Contents 201 x 143 mm. A view looking across the lawns and flowerbeds (where gardeners are at work) to the Government House built by Captain Usorne, the Director of the Public Works, for Sir Henry Hesketh Bell. On his arrival in Entebbe, Hesketh Bell's accommodation consisted of a 'very large bungalow of wood and iron, raised high on stilts and as ugly and prosaic a building as one would not wish to see'. This was later to become the Hotel Victoria (and later still the Secretariat) while Hesketh...

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196 x 138 mm. A view from the lawn showing the partially completed building, with unrendered brickwork, scaffolding and as yet without a roof.

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206 x 119 mm. Showing a guard of honour preceded by drummers entering the grounds of Government House, followed by tongas containing Daudi Chwa and other Ugandan dignitaries.

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192 x 140 mm. Showing a group of men and women gathered in front of Government House during an informal occasion. Sir Henry Hesketh Bell, the Governor, is seated on a step at the front of the group.

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87 x 71 mm. Showing the guardhouse, a brick building in Indian style, with two Sikh soldiers on parade in front of it.

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196 x 138 mm. Showing the single storey court house at Entebbe with two uniformed officials (unidentified) seated in a rickshaw in the foreground. The court was opended in April 1904.

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70 x 86 mm. A full length portrait of the Duchess D'Aosta standing in a garden. The Duchess D'Aosta, a daughter of the Comte de Paris and also known as Princess Hélène de France, arrived in Entebbe in mid-March 1908 in company with Lady Susan Hicks-Beach and an Italian count. The visit is described in Bell (1946), pp 177-178 and Bell (1908), January 7, January 20, March 17, March 30.

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79 x 81 mm. A full length portrait of the Duchess D'Aosta standing in a garden. The Duchess D'Aosta, a daughter of the Comte de Paris and also known as Princess Hélène de France, arrived in Entebbe in mid-March 1908 in company with Lady Susan Hicks-Beach and an Italian count. The visit is described in Bell (1946), pp 177-178, and Bell (1908), January 7, January 20, March 17, March 30.

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55 x 80 mm.

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'97-45-16' printed in bottom right corner.

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84 x 113 mm. Showing Futke and her mahout in Uganda. Futke, who arrived in Entebbe with her mahout on January 25 1909, had a short but eventful and extremely amusing stay in Uganda.

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146 x 200 mm. A view from the drawing room looking through a series of curtained arches, the one in the foreground flanked by a pair of elephant tusks.

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88 x 88 mm. A view looking across a drawing room towards an archway flanked by elephant tusks.

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88 x 87 mm. A view of a drawing room.

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84 x 82 mm. A view looking across a drawing room towards an archway flanked by elephant tusks.

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82 x 84 mm. A view of a drawing room.

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87 x 86 mm. Showing a hallway and staircase in Government House, Entebbe.

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88 x 86 mm. A view looking from one drawing room, through an archway flanked by elephant tusks, to a second room furnished with wicker chairs.

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155 x 120 mm.

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55 x 50 mm.