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154 x 110 mm. Showing a forest of oil palms near Sulima, with two policemen and a group of bearers on the path in the foreground.

Scope and Contents 155 x 111 mm. Showing a group of four Tasso men of the Poro secret society. Their function and appearance are well described: 'Next in power to the chiefs in the great Poro institution come the heads of the Poro, called the Tassos. Each big chief of a town has his own Tasso man, who, upon very important occasions, attends with his chief.When I photographed the four Tassos ..., it was at the conclusion of a very great and unusual meeting, the installation of a chief, after several...

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153 x 116 mm. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set Intro. No. 526). (6). Mr. Y.D. Sisay, Senior Master and Assistant Principal, takes a class in physical culture at Bo School'.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...

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156 x 112 mm. Showing a group of variously dressed Africans playing cricket on a makeshift pitch on the main road under mango trees at Bonthe. As Alldridge remarks: 'Cricket ... has 'caught on'. I saw the game being played on the main road in Bonthe, about five o'clock one afternoon, and the team kindly stood in position long enough for me to photograph them.' (Aldridge 1901, page 44).

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Quarter-plate. Band of green palms in background - sand in front. (Fisher).

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An account of a journey of 21-28 January 1939.

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Quarter-plate. Built about the time of the Dutch occupation. Note the curious pair of lions, evidently copied from some European coat of arms. (Fisher).

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Half-plate (landscape format). Dutch fortifications/racecourse/Roman Cath. Cathedral/Railway Station/Jetty/Old Dutch Fort. (Fisher).

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Half-plate. From walls of old Dutch fortifications. [Looking along waterfront with palms in foreground].

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Quarter-plate.

Scope and Contents 156 x 109 mm. Showing a large group of chiefs and villagers at Bambaia, about 25 miles by water from Bonthe (see following two prints). Identified beneath the print are the Sokong, the Prime Minister and 'a principal Kruba' (military leader) with the following remark: 'all of whom were tried for murder and hanged at Bonthe, Sherbro, 7th November 1898'.Governor Cardew's decision to levy the Hut tax in 1898 led to a confrontation between Protectorate forces and the men of Chief...

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Sepia postcards published by W.J. Johnston and Sons, Freetown. They were printed in Treves (Trier) - many cards in this period were printed in Germany. The collection has been studied by Dr. Christopher Fyfe and the postcard descriptions are based on his notes.

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Sepia postcards published by W.J. Johnston and Sons, Freetown. They were printed in Treves (Trier) - many cards in this period were printed in Germany. The collection has been studied by Dr. Christopher Fyfe and the postcard descriptions are based on his notes.

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Sepia postcards published by W.J. Johnston and Sons, Freetown. They were printed in Treves (Trier) - many cards in this period were printed in Germany. The collection has been studied by Dr. Christopher Fyfe and the postcard descriptions are based on his notes.

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158 x 113 mm. A view looking along a road at Bonthe, the seat of Government for the Sherbro district and situated at the east end of Sherbro Island, towards a group of small thatched houses set among trees. With a stream in the left foreground.

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157 x 112 mm. Showing a thatched wooden house set among banana trees, with a small covered roadside fruit stall to the right and a family group posing for the camera in the middle ground of the print.

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156 x 110 mm. A view from the beach looking towards the houses of Sulima, the starting point for Alldridge's journeys into the interior.

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158 x 108 mm. Showing surf breaking on the beach at Sulima, a port of entry into the Sherbro at the mouth of the River Moa. Alldridge included this photograph as an illustration of the difficulty of landing at Sulima during the rainy season.

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Quarter-plate. Cricket match