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76x101mm. View of a coconut seedling.

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77xl01mm. Showing Fadelle standing on top of the newly constructed wall.

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76x101mm. Showing flowering tobacco plants.

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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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101x76mm. View looking along a small stream running through dense woodland, with a figure posed in the background.

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204x145mm. View looking across steeply hilled, heavily wooded land.

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148x201mm. View looking along a heavily wooded gorge of the Layou River.

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102x76mm. View looking across wooded hills.

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100x76mm. View looking across towards the opposite hillside, planted with cane to about half its height with scrubland above.

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200x144mm. View looking across densely wooded land towards distant mountains.

Scope and Contents 241 x 178mm. Showing a path in the Gardens lined with trees and shrubs. A handwritten note on the back of the print reads, ‘The Garden covers an area of 48 acres and extends an equal distance beyond the farthest tree visible in the middle distance, and also away to the right of the picture, where in a depression the economic plants are cultivated. The offices, potting sheds and nurseries are situated at the back of the foliage behind the gardener and are screened by that belt of trees. On...

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288 x 173mm. A view looking down into the Roseau Valley showing the lush and hilly scenery of the Dominica interior. The Roseau River can be seen on the valley floor.

Scope and Contents 155 x 101 mm. A good clear view looking towards Roseau and the sea from the hills behind the town. In the foreground is the Roseau River with fields planted out with lime trees beyond. The plantation is probably part of Rose and Company's Bath Estate. The company was established in Dominica in the 1860s by Laughlan Rose, a merchant from Leith, who apart from supplying limes to British ships, pioneered their use in soft drinks. In 1875 he set up the first factory in Dominica for the...

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159 x 102 mm. A view looking along the steep-sided Roseau Valley with limes growing in the foreground and mountains in the distance. The lake referred to is the Freshwater Lake in the extinct volcano 3000 feet above sea level at the end of the valley.

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A collection of loose photographs (one being a panorama composed of two prints), measuring approximately 240 x 175 mm. All prints except plate fourteen have either typed or handwritten captions on the reverse. The photographs show buildings in Roseau and landscape views of the outlying country.

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100 x 75 mm. Showing a crowd gathered round the decorated coach which Bell is about to board.

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99 x 71 mm. Showing an unidentified group standing beneath a banner reading 'Dominica's gratitude to Sir H. Hesketh Bell K.C.M.G.'.

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Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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158 x 208 mm. A view looking across a valley towards two waterfalls which drop among dense vegetation. Exact location unidentified (?possibly the falls at Trafalgar, now a source of hydro-electric power).

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Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

Scope and Contents A 16mm, colour cinefilm, without sound. The only clearly identifiable place is Dominica as a sign is pictured at the airport.0 - 17sec. People at beachside locations.17sec - 22sec. Man line fishing on some rocks.22sec - 39sec. Scenes taken from a moving boat, showing other boats, the sea, people snorkelling and swimming, and others on the boat.39sec - 1min 17sec. Group of people in a garden. Two men in uniform. The first is wearing a white pith helmet with a crest,...

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Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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Contains slides all in Kodachrome mounts. The early photographs include scenes during a visit by J.B. Godber, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and his Private Secretary; some leading political figures are also shown. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.