Zanzibar Island (island)
Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:
Near the Dhow Anchorage, 1930 - 1950
210 x 160 mm.
Omari, rickshaw boy, 1920 - 1927
59 x 102 mm. A view showing Omari. His jacket is monogrammed L and A over the breast.
[Onboard a dhow], 1933 - 1947
160 x 210 mm.
[Open air schooling], 1930 - 1950
215 x 150 mm. Young men seated and stood around benches in the open air.
[Open air schooling], 1930 - 1950
160 x 110 mm. Young men seated and stood around benches in the open air.
[Outrigger canoes], 1930 - 1950
105 x 155 mm.
Outrigger canoes racing on the occasion of H.H. The Sultan's Silver Jubilee, 1937
210 x 160 mm.
[Panorama of Zanzibar Town], 1920 - 1927
[Parade in Zanzibar], 1880 - 1889
269 x 210 mm. A view looking down on a group of Swahili parading through Zanzibar in front of a military procession. With thatched huts at the right and the sea beyond.
Petrol tins - (An Indian trader0, 1930 - 1950
210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'The petrol tin or 'Debi' as it is called has a hundred other uses in Africa from roofing houses to transport of water, dates, coconut oil and many other commodities.'
Photographs of Zanzibar by James Augustus Grant, 1860
A collection of loose prints copied from stereoscopic views.
[Picked clove branch], 1930 - 1950
210 x 160 mm.
Picking cloves, 1930 - 1950
160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'The cloves are borne on the ends of the branches all up the sides of the clove tree. The bunches of cloves are picked and collected in palm leaf baskets.' Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'
Picking cloves, 1930 - 1950
160 x 210 mm.
Picking cloves, 1930 - 1950
90 x 140 mm. Postcard.
Picking cloves, 1930 - 1950
165 x 125 mm. Stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'
[Picking coconuts, Zanzibar], 1900 - 1910
85 x 143 mm. A view looking up towards the top of a palm tree where an African is picking coconuts.
[Plantation scene, ?Zanzibar], 1880 - 1889
194 x 144 mm. Showing a large group of plantation workers, or possibly road building teams, posed on the slope in front of a shed and a house raised on stilts.
[Portraits], 1930 - 1964
Mainly head and shoulder portraits of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar, Arab Sheikhs, Zanzibar farmers and fishermen, and children (two in Pemba Island). Only those captioned are listed here.
[Post Office, Zanzibar], 1920 - 1927
136 x 78 mm. A view showing the colonnaded exterior of the Post Office in Main Street, built in 1906 on the site of the original Royal Stables.
Potter's yard, 1930 - 1950
210 x 160 mm. Showing many pots grouped outside thatched huts.
Preparing for a native dance, Zanzibar, 1900 - 1910
142 x 88 mm. Showing a group of Swahili women gathered round sets of drums of various sizes and shapes.
Preparing nuts in one of the yards, 1920 - 1927
103 x 58 mm. A view showing an African, seated beneath a makeshift corrugated-iron sunshade, removing the shells from the coconut kernals.
[Preparing nuts in one of the yards], 1920 - 1927
135 x 78 mm. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Anolther yard'.
Preparing sacks for cloves, 1933 - 1948
165 x 215 mm. The man in the picture is stencilling 'London' as the port of destination for this batch of cloves. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'