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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51 x 41 mm.

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38 x 20.5 mm. Photographer unknown, possibly A.G. Cooke.

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A distant view of a waterfall, possibly the Kirk Falls visited by Bell at the end of February 1907, with a river in the foreground.

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Showing Powell's covered with bite-marks.

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Showing a small baby.

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The caption below the photograph continues: 'The Ambudu tribe live in the Mangbetu area'.

Scope and Contents From the File: 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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Showing Powell with a baby on his knee.

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Showing Powell standing beside two men. In the Ituri Forest, Kivu region, Zaire.

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Showing Powell seated in a chair with the riverbank in the background. The caption continues: 'Watching monotonous miles of forested banks'.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'The Giri Swamps lie between the Ubangui and the Congo Rivers. A greater part of the swamp is flooded primeval forest'.

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102 x 76 mm. A view showing the four members of the Congo Sleeping Sickness Commission standing in front of a cage covered in gauze, presumably built to store captured tsetse flies. The figures are, from left to right, Dr John Lancelot Todd (1876-1949), Dr Inge Heiberg, representing the Congo Government on the Commission, Cuthbert Christy and Dr Joseph Everett Dutton (1874-1905). Photographer unknown.

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99 x 74 mm (mounted on card). A view showing a row of emaciated Africans facing the photographer while waiting for their ration of Kwanga (Casava bread).

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Showing a worker standing at a spinning machine in the textile factory. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Les importantes usines textiles de la Société Utexléo, à Léopoldville, ont produit en 1945 plus de 14.000 Km.de tissus. La photo montre une carde'.

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Showing a sleeping baby.

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The caption to the right of the photograph reads: 'This type of bed is used by the Azande - Bangwa - and Mangbetu tribes. Made from split cane and palm. Beside it is a calibash water pipe. These have ridiculously small bowls, and the tobacco is burnt out after a moments smoking'.

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Photographs taken in different locations in Sudan, with a few from the Belgian Congo and Kenya, mainly depicting people and scenery.

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74 x 97 mm (mounted on card). A view showing an emaciated young African suffering from sleeping sickness. Such is his weakness and lethargy that his head has to be supported. The boys name is Oparanga and is case CI in Christy's expedition report.

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150 x 110 mm. A view showing a dead anteater in the Ituri Forest. 'The long extensile tongue is seen hanging out of the animal's mouth'. Photograph by Mr Eriksson (the discoverer).

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70 x 99 mm. Screened print showing the head and forefeet of an anteater. Photograph by Herbert Lang, American Museum of Natural History.

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70 x 99 mm. Screened print showing the head and forefeet of an anteater. Photograph by Herbert Lang, American Museum of Natural History.

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130 x 95 mm. General view.

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...