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133 x 79 mm. Showing Bell on horseback in front of one of the wings of Le Reduit.

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99 x 72 mm. View of the courtyard and entrance façade of Le Reduit situated six miles outside Port Louis on the way to Curepipe. First built in 1748 as an alternative residence for the governor, the house was rebuilt in 1778 and in 1868 when the top section was destroyed in a cyclone.

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110 x 80 mm. Showing flower beds and pond.

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110 x 80 mm. Showing flower beds and pond.

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100 x 76 mm. View looking across the lawn towards the rear façade of Le Reduit, with Bell standing on the grass.

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A scrapbook album containing prints of various sizes by various photographers. The majority of the prints are captioned in Bell's hand. They relate to his period as Governor of the Leeward Islands, which ended in 1915; visits to England and South Africa; and, from plate 33 onwards, his Governorship of Mauritius, to which he was appointed in 1915.

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100 x 140 mm. Uniformed group photographed inside a room. Regnard has not been identified, but was perhaps a Mauritian A.D.C.

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110 x 85 mm. Showing HHB and Denham on the occasion of Bell's return to Mauritius, March 1923.

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150 x 85 mm. Sepia photograph looking across lake with boat in the foreground, and mountains in distance.

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A collection of loose prints (mainly snapshots). The prints are largely uncaptioned and much of this item lacks detailed identification (although many of the prints certainly relate to Bell's trip to the Far East in 1925-26).

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A collection of loose prints (mainly snapshots). The prints are largely uncaptioned and much of this item lacks detailed identification (although many of the prints certainly relate to Bell's trip to the Far East in 1925-26).

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55 x 80 mm. Showing the three girls grouped on the summit, with the sea in the background.

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131 x 78 mm. Showing the three daughters of Pierre Adam, a member of the Mauritius Council of Government, seated in canework chairs on a verandah.

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A scrapbook album containing prints relating to Bell's Governorship of Mauritius from his return from leave in 1919 to his final departure in 1924. There are also some scenes in east Africa and Britain during his 1919 leave and some of a visit to Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) in 1921.

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136 x 79 mm. Showing a troop of Boy Scouts on parade.

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126 x 76 mm. Showing Mauritius Volunteers parading before Bell at a review held on 19 October 1916.

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127 x 76 mm. Showing Mauritius Volunteers parading before Bell at a review held on 19 October 1916.

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85 x 110 mm. A mounted photograh of the memorial showing an English and a French soldier holding up a wreath.

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135 x 90 mm. View showing HHB saluting in front of Queen Victoria's statue with a guard of honour drawn up. This was the day HHB went on leave. Photograph by Mrs. Gilchrist.

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80 x 105 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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104 x 76 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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70 x 93 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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71 x 92 mm. Showing the graceful six columned temple in vaguely art nouveau style, designed by Bell and erected in the grounds of Le Reduit. Barthélemy David, the creator of Le Reduit, was Governor of Mauritius 1747-53. Bell's memorial to him was completed in July 1921.

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Loose mounted prints of various sizes by various photographers. The prints relate to different periods of Bell's career. The captions have been composed for this catalogue.

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...