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160 x 210 mm.

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210 x 160 mm.

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160 x 160 mm.

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165 x 105 mm.

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160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'This is a sight common in Zanzibar. The bunches of fruit are packed onto a wooden framework beneath which is a small wooden box for cash receipts. Natives walk many miles to town thus loaded with bananas.'

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110 x 110 mm. A handwritten caption on a piece of paper accompanying the image reads: 'Baobab trees; a familiar sight in areas of East Africa so dry that trees have developed their own method of storing moisture. Notice the bare, stony appearance of the ground, and the bare outcrops of rock on the distant hill.'

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61 x 102 mm. A view looking along a beach where an African nurse is playing with a European child.

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62 x 40 mm. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Old Sultan's palace now Govt Offices'.

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115 x 120 mm. Showing the framework of a small boat.

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85 x 143 mm. Showing the many branched and spiky leaved Borassus palm.

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130 x 115 mm. The caption continues: Small boys display a remarkable aptitude for the manufacture of toy models. In the picture is a model bus made almost entirely from strips of fibre from the raffia palm. The smallest details are often accurately copied.'

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170 x 120 mm.

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201 x 150 mm. A view looking across the Residency garden towards the white crenellated building situated in the southern part of the town near the Victoria Gardens. The house was bilt for A.S. Rogers in 1903 for the designs of J.H. Sinclair.

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137 x 64 mm (both sections of stereo print). Showing the old British Consulate and the waterfront at Zanzibar, with dhows anchored in the harbour beyond.

Scope and Contents 240 x 190 mm. A view showing Africans loading produce on to the train on the narrow gauge railway at Bububu, five miles north of Zanzibar Town. Bububu is: 'the terminus of a dimunitive railway which plies six or seven times a day to Zanzibar Town. The service is most popular and useful, and is largely used by the native poplation. A special first-class coach is run for the benefit of those passengers from steamers who wish to obtain a glimpse of the island. The railway traverses some of...

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205 x 155 mm.

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215 x 165 mm.

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Mainly 210 x 160 mm. Images of local architecture, including many detailed views of ornate carved doorways.

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160 x 210 mm.

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210 x 160 mm.

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210 x 160 mm. Some of the clove buds have blossomed.

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102 x 60 mm. A view showing a stone house at Mbweni, not in fact a bungalow. The house has a balcony on the first floor.

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210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: 'Canoes for the large fishing industry of Zanzibar are all constructed from the hollowed trunk of the mango tree. In this illustration the canoe builder is shaping the outer hull with an adze.'

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200 x 165 mm.

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200 x 165 mm.