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102 x 59 mm. Showing a group of African musicians, with spectators in the background. Probably at the Accession Proclamation 1910.

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102 x 59 mm. Showing an elderly African standing in front of the military quarters under construction at Ogoja.

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102 x 59 mm. Showing partially constructed round houses, with the two tiered thatched roof completed but with the walls as yet unfinished.

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102 x 59 mm. Showing Podevin, in a white suit addressing soldiers of the Southern Nigeria Regiment drawn up on the parade ground at Ogoja. George Sibbit Podevin (1878-1918) served in the South African Constabulary 1901-08 and was Acting District Commissioner, Ogoja May-August 1910 and later at Obudu. Podevin was a Transport Officer in the Cameroons during the Great War and was killed on December 2 1918.

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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102 x 59 mm. Showing Africans constructing the wooden frameworks of military quarters at Ogoja.

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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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102 x 59 mm. Showing a group of hausa men watching the Accession Proclamation.

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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102 x 59 mm. Showing a large thatched building at Ogoja.

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102 x 59 mm. Showing a row of dancing Africans, with the principal dancer in the foreground facing the camera. Probably taken at the Accession Proclamation 1910.

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102 x 59 mm. Showing the completed wooden frameworks of the new military lines at Ogoja, ready for thatching.

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102 x 59 mm. Showing a group of Africans constructing the circular wooden framework for the roof of the house.

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102 x 59 mm. A general view of the large settlement of thatched huts at Obudu, situated on a plain with hills in the background.

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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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102 x 59 mm. A distant view of the thatched huts of the Civil lines at Ogoja.