Scope and Contents 204 x 136 mm. A view looking down on the scene at the Calabar landing stage just after the arrival of Sir Frederick Lugard on his tour of the Central and Eastern Provinces of Nigeria of December 2-15 1912. In the foreground a guard of honour stands at attention, with a group of civil and military officials gathered beside the landing stage watching Lugard's departure in the motor car which can be seen rounding the corner in the background: 'The main port of call was the relatively...

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108 x 60 mm. A view looking along a road at Calabar behind which are neatly laid out rows of small bungalows.

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204 x 142 mm. A view looking along the waterfront at Calabar, with long wooden canoes, some loaded with barrels of palm nut oil, beached at the waters edge.

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204 x 148 mm. A view from a river looking towards wharves and warehouses at the waters edge. Very probably a view of Calabar from the Calabar River.

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200 x 151 mm. A wharve with commercial premises at the right.

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78 x 95 mm. A view showing the deep scars (two-and-a-half year old) caused by excision tapping with the old V-shaped knife.

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77 x 96 mm. A view looking along a pathway lined with rubber trees.

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78 x 97 mm. A view showing a young African standing beside a rubber tree growing without early pruning or side shade.

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79 x 100 mm. A view looking along a pathway lined with rubber trees. Photograph probably by Christy.

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Similar to the illustration in Mary Kingsley ‘Travels in West Africa’ (1897) p 43. He wears European clothes under a robe, and a crown, and holds a tall sceptre. King Duke Ephraim Eyamba IX (Orok Edem) ruled Calabar from April 1880 until his death in 1896. See K.K. Nair ‘Politics and Society in South Eastern Nigeria 1841-1906’ (1972).

Scope and Contents 138 x 201 mm. A full length portrait of King Ovonramwen (also known as Overami) dressed in a resplendently decorated robe and seated in a chair with his two wives (in European clothes) standing beside him. Ovonramwen (d. 1914) presided over the dissolution of the Kingdom of Benin and was by all accounts a bloodthirsty tyrant. With the suppression of the West African slave trade, Benin's power was diminishing, but it still held out against European domination and the country was closed to...

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201 x 141 mm. Showing a crowded market scene, probably in Calabar, with traders and customers seated or standing in an open sandy square.

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201 x 144 mm. Market scene.

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210 x 150 mm., mounted 290 x 230 mm. The group shows eight Europeans, of whom Mary Kingsley, Sir Claude and Lady Macdonald, and Roger Casement are identified. For a discussion of the picture, and its dating, see Donald Simpson, ‘Mary Kingsley: a West African Group’ (‘African Affairs’, v 86, no 342, 1987, p 5-6) copies of which are filed with this catalogue and with the plate.

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252 x 202 mm. Modern print of Y3043PP/1.

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39 x 47 mm. Miss Seville, Government Telephone Operaor from Lagos going on leave to Calabar. The modern African Miss is only a few steps behind her London 'sisters' when it comes to fashions.

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This diary (circa 80 pages) was kept by Christy during a tour of Nigeria and Benin to survey rubber trees growing in the wild and cultivated in plantations.

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108 x 66 mm. A dark print showing the two-storey Officers' Mess of the 1st South Nigerian Regiment at Calabar, with a row of small cannon ranged in front of the verandah.

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A coloured card of a coat of arms. The University of Calabar was established in 1975.

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207 x 138 mm. A view from a grassy hillside looking down towards the Calabar waterfront and river.

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207 x 141 mm. A view looking down a street in Duke Town (the African quarter of Calabar) with a row of thatched houses on the left and the waterfront and Calabar River visible in the background. The tower of the Duke Town Church can be seen projecting above a clump of trees at the right of centre.