Anchau (inhabited place)
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Group including Malam Joseph in front of a compound of the Maguyawa, 1952
155 x 110 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.
[Market scene, ?Anchau, c.1939], 1939
The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Until the new market was built at Takalafiya, meat was sold under the most unsanitary [sic] conditions, as can be seen in this picture'.
'Sale' one of the first Maguyawa Christians with his father, 1952
11 x 156 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.
[View in the Anchau slums, 1930s], 1930 - 1939
Showing a woman spinning cotton in front of a mud and thatch hut in Anchau. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The hub of the resettlement scheme is the town of Anchau. In 1939 the foul and congested slums of the town were cleaned up. Three wide roads were driven through the town and the 600 people thus dispossessed were moved to a new site - Takalafiy, three-quarters of a mile away. The picture shows a woman of Anchau slums before the town was cleaned up'.