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195 x 145 mm. A view looking eastwards over the rooftops of Zanzibar town towards the Anglican Cathedral.

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102 x 60 mm. A view showing the front façade and entrance stairway of the large house at Mbweni established by Miss C.D.M. Thackeray of the U.M.C.A. as a home (housing 70) for formerly enslaved girls training to be mission teachers.

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102 x 59 mm. A view showing the white walls and square tower of an unidentified mosque.

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155 x 175 mm.

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108 x 158 mm. Mounted on card. A view showing a Swahili servant sitting on the steps in front of the carved Arab doorway of Chandler's house in Zanzibar.

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155 x 215 mm. Showing an ornately carved Arab doorway in Zanzibar town. Photograph probably by A.C. Gomes and Sons.

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148 x 209 mm. Showing an ornately carved Arab doorway in Zanzibar town. Photograph probably by A.C. Gomes and Sons.

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140 x 90 mm.

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210 x 160 mm. The caption continues: '... awaiting the onset of the south east monsoon to take them home.'

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90 x 130 mm.

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90 x 130 mm.

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115 x 115 mm.

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160 x 210 mm.

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160 x 210 mm.

Scope and Contents 194 x 145 mm. Showing a group of German D.O.G. employees, Arabs and Indians (a parsee among them) standing in front of the customs shed with large piles of elephant tusks, graded according to size, lying on the ground around them. The caption is taken from Meinecke (1899) where the photograph is reproduced as a woodcut with the following explanation (roughly translated):'Many millions of marks of ivory produce was shipped to Zanzibar through the old customs port at Bagamoyo. The caravans...

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165 x 215 mm.

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220 x 165 mm.

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160 x 210 mm.

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210 x 160 mm.

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160 x 160 mm.

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165 x 105 mm.

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160 x 210 mm. The caption continues: 'This is a sight common in Zanzibar. The bunches of fruit are packed onto a wooden framework beneath which is a small wooden box for cash receipts. Natives walk many miles to town thus loaded with bananas.'

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110 x 110 mm. A handwritten caption on a piece of paper accompanying the image reads: 'Baobab trees; a familiar sight in areas of East Africa so dry that trees have developed their own method of storing moisture. Notice the bare, stony appearance of the ground, and the bare outcrops of rock on the distant hill.'

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61 x 102 mm. A view looking along a beach where an African nurse is playing with a European child.

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62 x 40 mm. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Old Sultan's palace now Govt Offices'.