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152 x 92 mm. This could be the 'Great Britain' pictured in RCMS 277/1/80.

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152 x 92 mm. This could be the 'Great Britain' pictured in RCMS 277/1/80.

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Contains slides obviously taken on the same visit as B since the numbers inter-relate with the original numbers of 72-75 in that list. These comprise 29 Kodachrome slides printed in England undated, 4 Ektachromes and one in a grey and red Photopia frame. They are not captioned or numbered by John Ewart Marnham and arranged by processing number.

Scope and Contents 110 x 85 mm. Group showing the Governor in full-dress uniform with naval officers and others, identified by the Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, through the good offices of Mr William Stravely, as the visit of the Commander in Chief, America and West Indies, Vice-Admiral Sir John F. Stevens, KBE CB, in February 1955. The group shows Commander (S) A. J. Petrie-Hay, Admiral's Secretary; Commodore D. H. Connell-Fuller, Commanding Officer of 'Superb', the flagship; the Governor;...

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159 x 115mm. A view looking along the waterfront from behind the row of houses that line the harbour. The harbour can be seen in the background and mountains in the distance. In the middle ground stands Christ Church Cathedral whose tower was completed in 1903.

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110 x 85 mm. A view of the west coast of the Falkland Islands taken from the 'Philomel', a motor fishing vessel which was brought out in 1947 to link up town and scattered farms. On the reverse of the print, written in pencil, is the reference '8A'.

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85 x 135 mm. The arch was constructed in 1933 from the jawbones of two blue whales, celebrating the centenary of British government in the Falklands.

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Three postcards and two prints, probably collected as part of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee material (see introduction to Fisher Collection). The photographs are captioned on the backs.

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140 x 90 mm. postcard.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...

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60 x 87 mm. A caption on the reverse seems to read 'William Gill, son of the original.'

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95 x 55 mm. portrait of William Horton Smyley (1792 - 1868), American sea captain and consul.

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60 x 75 mm portrait of William Horton Smyley (1792 - 1868), American sea captain and consul in his diplomatic uniform.

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83 x 70 mm.

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82 x 58 mm.

Scope and Contents A watercolour of the battered shell of the Allen Gardiner, a schooner named after the missionary Allen Francis Gardiner. Gardiner’s proselytizing took him to Port Natal in the 1830s and then to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in the 1840s. His tragic death of starvation, alongside his missionary colleagues on Picton Island off Tierra del Fuego in 1851, prompted his former naval colleagues including Captain Bartholomew James Sulivan (see RCMS 273/4) to raise funds to revive the...