160 x 210 mm.

210 x 160 mm.

59 x 103 mm. A view showing Leitch (presumably a colleague of Chandler's) pointing a camera. In the foreground are spread out piles of drying copra.

A typescript copy of a letter from Putnam to his brother John, 8 July 1849, describing a voyage to East Africa in the 'Emily Wilder' and a meeting with his brother Horace (2 pages). There is an accompanying note by D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, March 1969, providing background information (1 page).

235 x 190 mm. A view showing the dilapidated three storey building lived in for some weks by Livingstone before setting out on his final expedition in 1866. Next to the house stand native houses of thatch and wattle. The building is situated on the northern side of the town east of the Creek on what was later Hollis Road.

210 x 160 mm.

160 x 205 mm.

150 x 125 mm.

165 x 210 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

125 x 165 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'

155 x 200 mm.

105 x 83 mm. A view from a wharf looking down on a lighter loaded with roped sacks of copra.

94 x 85 mm (one section of stereo print). Showing Luddah Damjee seated on a stone step in front of a carved Zanzibar door. Damjee (d. 1871), a Bhuttia Hindu from Cutch, was the Zanzibar Customs Master. Beneath the print Grant refers to him as 'The Custom Master of Zanzibar the Rothschild of Eastern Africa'.

61 x 102 mm. View showing the carved Arab doorway of Chandler's house in Zanzibar.

160 x 220 mm. The caption continues: 'A part of the main street of Zanzibar where, in many places, it is not possible for two cars to pass each other.'

210 x 160 mm.

106 x 85 mm. A view showing crowds in the Recreation Park in the south eastern part of Zanzibar Town with men and women seated in a wooden 'big wheel' in the foreground.

210 x 160 mm.

210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'A photograph of the place where hostilities must have started. The street and square adjoin the offices of the produce Inspector. The picture shows some of the Arab houses which surround the square and local shops protecting their wares from the afternoon sun.'

160 x 210 mm.

160 x 210 mm.

160 x 210 mm. Presumably cloves.

160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'This type of Arab very largely carries on business as a small roadside or plantation shopkeeper. In many cases this business is run in conjunction with that of copra drying.'

60 x 60 mm.

135 x 135 mm. Newspaper cutting. The caption continues: This beach was once the haunt of slave raiders. It's name means "The beach of the Arabs." There are two stories on the reverse of the cutting, which are: 'British children oversea [sic], Bill to appoint legal guardians' and 'Self-help among newspapers, Publication in spite of air raids.'