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75 x 62 mm. Showing European officials walking along a roadway decorated with flags and an archway bearing the legend 'B.K.R. [Baro-Kano Railway] Welcome'. Bell's brief visit to Baro on this occasion is described in Bell (1911), August 26.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...

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100 x 75 mm. A view from the Niger showing a crowd awaiting Bell's arrival. With the railway terminus in the background.

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115 x 77 mm. A view from the Niger showing a crowd awaiting Bell's arrival. With the railway terminus in the background.

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204 x 152 mm. A view from a hillside looking down on the railway workshops and terminus at Baro. Work was started on the Baro-Kano line in 1907 and the track, running NE for 350 miles, completed in 1911.

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103 x 77 mm. Showing the steamer Sarota moored at Baro, with an arch of welcome bearing the legend 'B.K.R. [Baro-Kano Railway] The staff wish Your Excellency a healthy and pleasant leave'.

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

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156 x 113 mm. glossy print.

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113 x 156 mm. glossy print.

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192 x 131 mm. Showing Bell (now dressed in civilian clothes) talking to a group of officials on Zungeru Station, with a locomotive at the left and a guard of honour in the background..

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193 x 132 mm. Showing Bell and other officials walking past a guard of honour on the platform of Zungeru Station on his departure on leave.

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An undated typescript description of a journey up the Niger March, 1906, 6 pages. Ward visited Forcados, Borutu, Lokoja, Wechisu and Barajuka before travelling by train to Zungeru and continuing her journey by rail. There is also a two-page manuscript fragment containing an account of part of this journey.

Scope and Contents A description of a ten day 'Grand Tour' to Kano, August-September 1913. Ward describes how 'I was to have had a change to Kaduna to open a new hospital there but owing to illness I was unable to go and the medical officer arranged this trip for me instead'. She travelled in the company of Mr and Mrs Goldsmith through Zungeru, Minna, Kaduna, Zaria and Kano (pp. 2-8), Zaria (pp. 8-11) and from Minna to Zungeru. The account includes comments on the position of Islam, mission work and the...

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105 x 100 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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101 x 103 mm. glossy print with 156 x 154 mm. enlargement and 56 mm. negative.

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100 x 76 mm. Showing the Emir of Bida surrounded by a large group of women and children. The photograph was taken during a tour of the Southern Provinces made by Bell in May 1910 and which is described in the printed report of the journey into the scrapbook beneath the photograph.

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100 x 74 mm. Showing Bell seated at work at a desk in his office.

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105 x 77 mm. Showing Bell seated at work at a desk in his office.

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155 x 108 mm. glossy print with copy.

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100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

Scope and Contents 135 x 85 mm. Showing the decorations, with an arch of welcome and a carpet leading down to the riverside: 'We left Lokoja on my old yacht the Corona on the 30th and arrived next day at Baro. The wharf there was beautifully decorated with a very large and elaborate Arch and Venetian masts. The Railway staff must have taken a great deal of trouble over it and it was all very gratifying. We dined with the Director of Railways on the top of the hill and left by train at midnight.' (Bell...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...

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101 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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101 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.