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Showing rows of elephant tusks laid out in the street of an unidentified village.

Scope and Contents A collection comprising:Y30446A 92 postcards of Sierra Leone, Belgian Congo and Canary IslesY30446B Album containing 45 printsY30446C Album containing 38 printsY30446D Album containing 25 printsY30446E 6 mounted prints (3 also framed).The collection is a valuable record of Sierra Leone in the early years of the twentieth century. The majority of the photographs in Y30446B-E are the work of the Lisk-Carew Brothers (Alphonso and Arthur) who established...

Scope and Contents A collection of coloured and monochrome postcards (filed with the postcard collection) comprising:1-20 Coloured views of Freetown. Photographer unknown21-28 Monochrome views of Freetown. Published by 'V.C.P.', stamped and postmarked January 12 1903.29-36 Monochrome views (mainly of people of different ethnic origins). Published by 'V. et Cie', stamped and postmarked January 12 1903.37-44 Monochrome views of Freetown. Published by Paris and Co.45-57 Monochrome...

Scope and Contents Showing an African couple performing a European dance. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Si les danses ancestrales, au rhythme du tam-tam, sont encore le délassement favori des indigènes de la brousse, il n'en est plus de même dans los grands centres où la population évoluante n'a pas tardé à adopter, dans ce domaine comme dans beaucoup d'autres, les habitudes européennes. C'est ainsi qu'à Léopoldville, le 4 décembre 1948, quatre orchestres et une vingtaine de couples de...

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Head and shoulders portrait of of Jean Bata, Congolese painter. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Originnaire du Bas-Congo, Jean Bata est un peintre congolais dont les oeuvres révèlent une nette tendance poétique dans l'interprétation des paysages'. Photograph by A. Da Cruz (Congopresse).

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...

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139 x 85 mm. Frederick Tymms standing on a beach.

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120 x 90 mm. A view of the lake and hardened lava on the far side.

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Views of the crater of Nyamaragira, an active volcano to the north of Lake Kivu, Zaire.

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The typewritten caption on the reverse reads ''L'Île', une oeuvre de Jean Bata. Jean Bata est un peintre originaire du Bas-Congo dont les oeuvres révèlent une nette tendance poétique dans l'interprétation des paysages'. Photograph by Ryelandt (Congopresse).

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The caption continues: 'He wears a leather pack on his wrist to protect himself from his sharp fibrous bow-string'. In the Ituri Forest, Kivu region, Zaire.

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100 x 74 mm. A view showing the severed heads of two buffaloes, probably shot near Avakubi.

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48 x 85 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profile of a skull from Pilipili, Ituri Forest. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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48 x 85 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profile of a skull of a buffalo from Mawambi, Ituri Forest. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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58 x 106 mm. Marked out for cropping. A profile of the skull of a buffalo shot at Mawambi, Ituri Forest. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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65 x 108 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profile of a buffalo skull shot at Bokala, Kasai River. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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48 x 107 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profile of a buffalo skull shot at Kasenji, Lake Albert. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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58 x 98 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profile of a buffalo skull shot at Banzyville, Mubangi River. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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46 x 98 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profile of a buffalo skull shot at the Lomani River. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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58 x 98 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profile of a buffalo skull shot at Maurambe, Ituri Forest. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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120 x 87 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profiles of two skulls and a pair of horns of Congolese buffalo. Photograph supplied by the Director of the Musée du Congo Belge.

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125 x 109 mm. Marked out for cropping. A view showing the profiles of two buffalo skulls shot at Kasinde, Lake Edward and Badambuli, near Lusambo, Sunkuru. Photograph supplied by the Musée du Congo Belge.

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87 x 139 mm. A view showing a dead buffalo, its head propped up on a stick, probably taken by A.E.H. Reid in the Belgian Congo.

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Showing a man making a fish trap.