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Portfolio of collotype prints of views of the Victorian Falls, each marked 'Copyright G.B. & Co. P.O. Box 1018 Cape Town,' and each has a printed caption.

Scope and Contents Collection of loose prints, most measuring approximately 275 x 205 mm., with brief pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Numbers 1-5 are platinum prints, distinguishable from silver prints by the delicacy and softness of tonal gradation. This fine process, substituting platinum for silver compounds as the light reactive substance in the paper, died out at around the time of the Great War due to the increase in the price...

Scope and Contents

A collection of separate photographs and a panorama. The photographs date from Chandler's residence in east Africa, and are chiefly of Zanzibar Island, but 60-73 and 83-87 are of Dar es Salaam, 75 is probably of England, 88-89 are of South Africa and 90-96 are of the Victoria Falls.