Zanzibar Island (island)
Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:
Zanzibar Port, 1910
143 x 85 mm. A view looking along the waterfront road with labourers pushing a cart loaded with crates in the foreground. Behind them on the road is the metal hull of a ship (origin unidentified) with the Beit-el-Ajeib largely obscured by palm trees beyond.
Zanzibar Port, 1900 - 1910
83 x 143 mm. A view showing dhows moored on the beach at Zanzibar.
Zanzibar Port, 1900 - 1910
143 x 85 mm. A similar view to the preceding plate.
Zanzibar Port, 1900 - 1910
141 x 84 mm. A view looking along the Zanzibar waterfront with the Customs buildings and sheds in the foreground. The print shows the part of the waterfront seen in the left hand section of Y3047A/1.
[Zanzibar Street], 1920 - 1927
77 x 131 mm. Underexposed. A view looking along a narrow, unidentified Zanzibar street. The building at the right, with a heart-shaped sign over the door, is the Africa Hotel. With a brief letter to his son Michael on the back of the print.
[Zanzibar Street Scene], 1880 - 1889
260 x 207 mm. A view looking along an unidentified street in Zanzibar, with more substantial buildings in the foreground leading on to thatched huts beyond.
Zanzibar Swahili, 1930 - 1964
160 x 210 mm. Photograph stamped on the reverse with 'Photograph on loan. Dorien Leigh Ltd.'
Zanzibar, the main street and shopping centre, 1930 - 1950
55 x 55 mm.
[Zanzibar waterfront], 1880 - 1889
194 x 144 mm. A view looking along a beach towards a settlement of thatched huts, probably in Zanzibar. With a fisherman standing beside his dugout in the foreground.
[Zanzibar waterfront], 1880 - 1889
193 x 144 mm. A view from the harbour looking towards a waterfront settlement, with dhows at anchor in the foreground.
Zanzibari girls at toilet, 1900 - 1910
151 x 209 mm. A view showing two Swahili girls, one arranging the other's hair in the distinctive Swahili style : 'Her hair... is 'done' in a number of ways, but the usual coiffure affected is the plaiting of her sparse locks into a series of ridges disposed at regular intervals over her head, which ridges are separated from one another by shallow valleys of bare scalp.' (Pearce 1920). A note on the reverse says 'Note shirt buttons in ears'.