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Showing a canoe being loaded.

Scope and Contents Collection of 248 photographs, chiefly amateur. Most captions are derived from the original album pages or the printed titles of postcards. Photographs without measurements are approximately 80 x 60 mm in size, and this suggests that they may have been taken by the collector, with the others acquired from colleagues or purchased.The photographs, housed in two albums, were found pushed through the letterbox of Woodspring Museum. They had clearly suffered from damp, the albums were...

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The caption below the photograph continues: 'The palms are full of weaver birds nests'.

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The caption below the photograph reads: 'Crudely worked brass rings worn round the ankles of the better class women, Chief's daughters and favourite wives. These are becoming rare now owing to the increasing sale of European goods. (Taken at Megrindra.)'.

Scope and Contents Showing electric welding of oil drums in the factory of La Société Coloniale de la Tôle (Socotole) in Leopoldville. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'La Société Coloniale de la Tôle (Socotole), filiale de la Société Anonyme des Pétroles au Congo (Petrocongo), produit dans son usine de Léopoldville les fûts métalliques nécesssaires pour le transport des carburants dans la colonie.Voici une soudeuse électrique; cette machine assemble les deux bords de la tôle, découpée et...

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Gangala na Bodio (40 miles W of Faradje, B. Congo[i.e. Congo]) where the African elephant is captured and domesticated'. Near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Gangala na Bodio (40 miles W of Faradje, B. Congo[i.e. Congo]) where the African elephant is captured and domesticated'. Near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Gangala na Bodio (40 miles W of Faradje, B. Congo[i.e. Congo]) where the African elephant is captured and domesticated'. Near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Gangala na Bodio (40 miles W of Faradje, B. Congo[i.e. Congo]) where the African elephant is captured and domesticated'. Near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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At Gangala na Bodio, near the Garamba National Park, Zaire. The caption reads: 'Monsieur Otterman giving each one [elephant] a small cake of salt after the morning parade'.

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At Gangala na Bodio, near the Garamba National Park, Zaire.

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85 x 72 mm. A view showing an unidentified heavily bearded European standing in the centre of a group of Pygmies. Photographer unknown, possibly Christy.

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A general view of a waterfall, possibly the Kirk Falls visited by Bell at the end of February 1907.

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94 x 73 mm. A view showing a black buffalo killed by Christy at Uele.

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94 x 73 mm. A view showing a black buffalo killed by Christy at Uele.

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100 x 75 mm. A view showing a black buffalo killed by Christy at Uele.

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100 x 75 mm. A view showing a black buffalo killed by Christy at Uele.

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Showing a long canoe full of people.

Scope and Contents View looking along the fuselage of the aeroplane, with the passengers in their seats and Emmanual Capelle, Administrator for the Black Population of Leopoldville, in the background. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Le 23 janvier 1949, un groupe d'indigènes évolués membre du Cercle D'études et d'Agrément de la cité indigène de Léopoldville, ont reçu le baptême de l'air.Les voici installés dans l'avion, quelques instants avant le départ on aperçoit au fond M. Emmanuel...

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Showing the group's first performance in front of a European audience. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'La section théâtrale du 'Cercle d'Etudes et d'Agréments' des indigènes évolués de Léopoldville a donné, le 27 septembre 1947, sa première représentation devant un public européen'. Photograph by H. Goldstein.

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Showing a member of the circle reciting a monologue. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'La section théâtrale du 'Cercle d'Etudes et d'Agréments' des indigènes évolués de Léopoldville a donné, le 27 septembre 1947, sa première représentation devant un public européen. En 'lever de rideau', un membre du cercle récite un monologue'. Photograph by H. Goldstein.

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...

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85 x 110 mm. Showing a stem of picked flowers.

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97 x 74 mm (mounted on card). A view showing a row of African youths equipped with butterfly nets in order to catch tsetse flies for analysis.

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98 X 74 mm. Mounted on card. A view showing fly boys wading across a river, with a European in the centre of the group. They are equipped with butterfly nets and are catching tsetse flies for analysis.