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205 x 150 mm. The caption continues: 'Note groundnut haulms stored in the trees for cattle fodder in the dry season.'

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210 x 165 mm. Showing a white roadside building with a patterned facade before which there are people with stalls selling their wares. There are also women or girls at a water point to the left.

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160 x 210 mm. Showing a large white building with a patterned facade, perhaps in Kano.

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160 x 210 mm. Showing a white building with a patterned facade, perhaps in Kano.

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160 x 210 mm. Showing a building with a white patterned facade, perhaps in Kano.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...

Scope and Contents 125 x 83 mm. Showing Bell addressing a seated group of Chiefs at Kano. The photograph is undated but was probably taken during Bell's visit to Kano in February/March 1910. In Bell (1910), March 3, he describes his reception by a 'Guard of Honour of a half-company of the Mounted Infantry' and the Durbar held in which 'the Emirs of Kano, Katsena, and other minor ones ... all came up, and sat on the ground on carpets, in a semi-circle, around me and my officers, and I made a speech to...

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105 x 77 mm. Showing a seated group of African men.

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160 x 215 mm. Showing a three quarter length portrait of a man in a field.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...

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210 x 160 mm. Showing men with a herd of cattle.

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100 x 75 mm. Showing a group of Hausa Chiefs charging on horseback towards the photographer. The duplicate of this photograph identifies the location as Kano.

Scope and Contents An illustrated diary of Christopher Barlow's journey from Kano, 23 February 1928, through French Equatorial Africa, Belgium Congo, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, arriving at Mombasa on 27 March, a total of nearly 3,500 miles. On pages iii-iv is a list of journeys undertaken by Barlow, 9 March 1927-19 February 1928. The volume includes thirty inserted photographs, as well as a copy of Barlow's entry in the 'Nigeria Civil Service list', 1929, and a letter to the Librarian of the Royal Empire...

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100 x 73 mm. Showing a group of chiefs seated on carpets on the ground, with a police guard of honour standing at the left. Location and date unknown.

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210 x 160 mm. Showing a person laying out dyed cloth to dry in the sun. Behind him others are dyeing the cloth in holes in the ground.

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160 x 210 mm. Showing men dyeing cloth in holes in the ground.

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160 x 210 mm. Showing men dyeing cloth in holes in the ground.

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97 x 74 mm.

Scope and Contents A description of a ten day 'Grand Tour' to Kano, August-September 1913. Ward describes how 'I was to have had a change to Kaduna to open a new hospital there but owing to illness I was unable to go and the medical officer arranged this trip for me instead'. She travelled in the company of Mr and Mrs Goldsmith through Zungeru, Minna, Kaduna, Zaria and Kano (pp. 2-8), Zaria (pp. 8-11) and from Minna to Zungeru. The account includes comments on the position of Islam, mission work and the...

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99 x 75 mm. Showing a massed group of Hausa horsemen galloping towards the photographer. The photograph was taken during Bell's extensive tour of Zaria and Kano in early 1910.

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97 x 75 mm. Showing a massed group of Hausa horsemen galloping towards the photographer. The photograph was taken during Bell's extensive tour of Zaria and Kano in early 1910.

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Showing a massed group of Hausa horsemen galloping towards the photographer. The photograph was taken during Bell's extensive tour of Zaria and Kano in early 1910.

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 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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210 x 160 mm. Showing a large stone building with arches, probably in Kano.