Mounted photographs, 1911-1912
File
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 17 / B16
44 black and white mounted photographs captioned as follows:
- (1) Mr. Harris greeting old chief on Bopoto Beach, upper Congo
- (2) steamers Livingstone and Endeavour in Bolengi beach, near Coquilhatville. Upper Congo
- (3) canoe with produce on the Aruwimi
- (4) canoe laden with produce, Lulanga River. Upper Congo
- (5) view of Baringa beach with mission steamer Pioneer at anchor
- (6) canoeing on the Aruwimi. Mrs. Harris and native attendants in foreground
- (7) railway steamer on Kasai River
- (8) canoe carrying produce on Aruwimi River
- (9) no caption [Mrs. Harris? in front of palm tree]
- (10) leper at Euli, Ikelemba River, upper Congo
- (11) no caption [forest scene]
- (12) man suffering with elephantiasis
- (13) S. S. Lapsley on Kasai River
- (14) steamer on Kasai River, carrying to the railhead an agent of the Katanga Company far gone in sleeping sickness
- (15) canoe at Baringa racing alongside that carrying Mr. and Mrs. Harris and carriers
- (16) taking the anchor of S. S. Antoinette ashore at wooding post above, Tse Modane, Kasai River
- (17) view on Kasai River
- (18) S. S. Hemptinne on the Kasai River
- (19) workshops at Dima, headquarters of Kasai Company
- (20) S. S. Berthe, formerly known as S. S. Lapsley, capsized at Kwamouth in 1902, when one white man and twenty natives were drowned
- (21) S. S. Wall steaming up Congo River, below Matadi
- (22) no caption [tablet of blue and white mosaic in old Dutch church at Loanda, depicting battle with natives [same image as B17, number 40]
- (23) no caption [white men and a woman in front of building]
- (24) no caption [view of street]
- (25) no caption [view of scenery]
- (26) no caption [gun-turret? Same location as number 27]
- (27) no caption [gun-turret? Same location as number 26]
- (28) no caption (three native men)
- (29) no caption [men being pushed in sledge?]
- (30) no caption [anti-slavery delegation to London?]
- (31) no caption [same image as number 30]
- (32) no caption [same image as number 30]
- (33) no caption [Mr. Harris? sitting in tree]
- (34) no caption [anti-slavery delegation to London?]
- (35) no caption [view of village and landscape taken onboard a boat, similar to number 37]
- (36) no caption [fallen trees with water in background]
- (37) no caption [view of village and landscape taken onboard a boat, similar to number 35]
- (38) no caption [view of ship on water with oil rigs?]
- (39) S. S. Lapsley steaming up the Kasai
- (40) the sunken S. S. Matadi at Boma
- (41) the S. S. Wall steaming up the Congo
- (42) large canoe in which Mr. and Mrs. Harris travelled up the Maringa River
- (43) bridge over the lagoon at Lobito Bay
- (44) S. S. Livingstone, anchored at Leopoldville
Dates
- Creation: 1911-1912
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 17 / B16
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk