110 x 75 mm.

155 x 113 mm. A view looking across a valley floor, with a stream in the foreground, towards an uninhabited Masai kraal of rectangular mud huts. Gedge’s diary records: ‘Shortly after we entered the plain [en route to Lake Naivasha] Masai kraals all deserted people moved off to Lykipia crossed plain in NW direction and reached edge of escarpment… Later … took 2 photos of warriors’ kraals. No trace of the second photograph has been found.

Views of the road, lake, BOAC landing jetty, animals, birds and chapel built by Italian prisoners of war.

'4th encampment about 20 miles from the Railhead and 382 miles from Mombasa. Showing feeble kind of telegraph poles (no insulators). All telegraphic work is done in the nish hut to the right. The distant huts, to the right, are the Fort Huts. This place is the first Fort in the Uganda Protectorate. There are 80 native soldiers and 6 Europeans.'

125 x 90 mm. Showing a group having a picnic. Naivasha Lake is visible in the distance.

125 x 95 mm. General landscape, with trees in the foreground.

135 x 80 mm. A view of a lake (the Naivasha Lake?) and land beyond.

65 x 80 mm. Showing a woman wearing loops of chains hanging from her ears and large circular earrings.

110 x 75 mm.

110 x 75 mm.

110 x 75 mm.

Views of the road and valley.

Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Colonial Institute had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South Kensington, and the creation of the Imperial Institute, the plan was abandoned. Over the years, however, the society built up a small, eclectic collection of objects as members donated items they had received as gifts or purchased during work or travel overseas.