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76 x 55 mm.

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A letter to an unnamed correspondent concerning adding 'Victoria Nile or' before 'Somerset River' on a map shortly to be published, presumably in Baker's 'The Albert N'Yanza', originally published in 1864. The map in the original volume is marked 'R Somerset or Victoria Nile'. The recipient may have been Stephen William Silver (1819-1905), a friend of Baker's, to whom other letters given by Sir Harry Wilson to the R.C.S. in 1916 were addressed.

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161 x 113 mm. A view from a boat on the lower Victoria Nile looking back towards the narrow cleft of the Murchinson Falls 22 miles east of Lake Albert.

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79 x 55 mm.

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A view from the east bank of the Nile looking across the Ripon Falls, seen by Bell for the first time when he visited Jinja in August 1906.

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189 x 140 mm. A view looking south towards the falls from the western bank of the Victoria Nile.

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199 x 140 mm. A view looking across the narrow channel of the Ripon Falls from the eastern (Jinja) bank of the Victoria Nile.

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139 x 86 mm.

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85 x 62 mm.

Scope and Contents 87 x 72 mm. Showing Winston Churchill standing at the edge of the Ripon Falls and holding a large box camera. Churchill, at this period, Parliamentray Under-Secretary for the Colonies, made an East African tour in the latter part of 1907. His trip, which is described in Churchill (1908), started at Mombasa and continued through British East Africa (now Kenya) and the Uganda Protectorate to Jinja; from there the Nile was followed north through the Sudan and Egypt to Alexandria. Churchill...

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

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A view looking north along the Nile from the east (Jinja) bank.

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195 x 144 mm. A view looking across the fast flowing Victoria Nile

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87 x 86 mm.