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115 x 160 mm.

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Letters, diaries and photographs.

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120 x 177 mm. A view showing a Lifu Island man, armed with a wooden club and standing in a similar studio set-up to the previous plate. Lifu is the largest of the Loyalty Islands.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The majority of the photographs relate to the early stages of Sheppard’s career with the Malayan Civil Service. They illustrate his accommodation; varied range of work in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak and Terengganu; Malay and European colleagues; official events, military service, travel and recreation. A number of prints are uncaptioned and have been provided with tentative titles in square brackets and approximate dates. The images begin with Sheppard's arrival in Jan. 1928...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The majority of the photographs relate to the early stages of Sheppard’s career with the Malayan Civil Service. They illustrate his accommodation; varied range of work in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak and Terengganu; Malay and European colleagues; official events, military service, travel and recreation. A number of prints are uncaptioned and have been provided with tentative titles in square brackets and approximate dates. The images begin with Sheppard's arrival in Jan. 1928...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the journey to the Yalta Conference; the death of Admiral Sir William Goodenough; public concern at conditions in France and Clementine's suggestion that Churchill could influence the Americans to release transport for food and coal distribution; Churchill's success at Yalta [Soviet Union]; a V-2 rocket attack on part of the Fulmer Chase Maternity Home for officers' wives [of which Clementine was Chairman]; Clementine's journey to the Soviet Union for the Red Cross Aid to...

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184 x 120 mm. A view looking across the bay towards the north-west face of Mont Saint-Michel. Photographer unknown.

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169 x 119 mm. A view looking towards the castle on Mount Saint-Michel from the Causeway. Photographer unknown.

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An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

Scope and Contents From the File: An album containing 106 collodio-chloride prints, a few outside the dates printed on the cover. Most are professional work of high quality. Not all relate to India. There is one photograph of Cambridge in 1902 (24); ten taken in Ireland during 1902-03, presumably during Douglas's leave, including sporting scenes and a wedding; six photographs of Sri Lanka (65-70); four of Hong Kong (71-74) and four of Paris (75-78) dated 1907.A number of items have been inserted, including amateur...

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125 x 80 mm. View looking down a street. The coastline and sea can be seen in the background.

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139 x 89 mm. A postcard view showing De Salvert seated in his biplane. The picture is annotated 'Rheims. Aug. 1909' in Bell's hand.

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Letters from Rowland Childers to his parents, from France, 1869; Harrow, 1869-74 and Balliol, 1874-77. Includes letter from W.C. Wheeler to H.C.E. Childers, 1866 (6) and draft letters from H.C.E. Childers to Rowland Childers, 1875 and 1877 (79, 80, 84).

Scope and Contents This file begins in Sept. 1934 with Benson’s employment by East African Concessions Ltd prospecting for gold in western Kenya near Kakamega. He was based at camps at Kibiri, Esikongo and Chebutubu. Photographs documenting the camps and Benson’s work may be found at RCMS 364/2/1. In Oct. 1935, Benson was transferred to Tanganyika, prospecting in the Sanza Concession near Mwanza. During 1936 he was employed as a diamond driller near Geita. In Dec. 1937 Benson joined Gold Coast...

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Letter to General Maurice Gamelin [Commander-in-Chief of French Army] from General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), and to General 6th Lord Gort [Commander-in-Chief of British Field Force, earlier John Vereker] from Hore-Belisha about the measures to supplement the Field Force, with Gort's reply.

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Includes letters to Mrs. Childers from A. Decoppet (1-2), L. Laquet (3), Frank Carr (4); letter from Mme. Marguerite Bouvrier to a female cousin of Charles (5); list of German tutors (31); letter from a house agent re houses at Folkestone.

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55 x 80mm. Showing four men in uniform standing in front of a hut. The men are identified on the reverse of the photograph:
'Left to right:
Lient. Craig (Obs. AHT) Gone home to fly
Lient. Collins (Pilot AHT)
Lient. Driscoll (Obs. BHT) Gone home to fly
Lient. Lomas (Pilot AHT) Gone home'

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139 x 89 mm. Monochrome postcard.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...

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A group of stereoscopic halves each measuring approximately 72 x 72 mm, showing general views of the architecture in the British Isles, Belgium and Paris.

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[Aircraft landed in field].

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55 x 80mm. Showing Major Logan, in uniform, standing in front of a shelter. Written on the reverse of the print is 'Capt. Logan. The Humourist (sic)'.

Scope and Contents Album containing photographs and other material. During November 1919 - March 1920 Margaret Best visited India where a brother, the Hon. James William Best (1882-1960) was a forestry officer. She travelled on the Peninsular and Oriental ship 'Kaisar-i-Hind' which sailed from London for Bombay on 10 October 1919, probably joining it at Marseilles. It is likely that her travelling companion was Miss Barbara Villiers, daughter of Ernest Villiers, M.P. and Elaine (née Guest) sister of Lady...

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224 x 182 mm. A view looking down on the settlement of Marigot, with streets of houses built along a narrow spit of land jutting out into the harbour. Marigot is the capital of St. Martin which lies north-west of Saint-Barthèlemy.

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Measuring 205 x 265 mm, this album contains 48 sepia photographs, each measuring 145 x 90 mm, two to a page, together with 22 loose prints of France and North Africa. The album prints have brief captions, and since they relate to Algiers, Biskra and a few of Tunis and Carthage, they may come from the same visit as Y304H.