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Mounted photographs, 1911-1912

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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 17 / B16

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44 black and white mounted photographs captioned as follows:

  1. (1) Mr. Harris greeting old chief on Bopoto Beach, upper Congo
  2. (2) steamers Livingstone and Endeavour in Bolengi beach, near Coquilhatville. Upper Congo
  3. (3) canoe with produce on the Aruwimi
  4. (4) canoe laden with produce, Lulanga River. Upper Congo
  5. (5) view of Baringa beach with mission steamer Pioneer at anchor
  6. (6) canoeing on the Aruwimi. Mrs. Harris and native attendants in foreground
  7. (7) railway steamer on Kasai River
  8. (8) canoe carrying produce on Aruwimi River
  9. (9) no caption [Mrs. Harris? in front of palm tree]
  10. (10) leper at Euli, Ikelemba River, upper Congo
  11. (11) no caption [forest scene]
  12. (12) man suffering with elephantiasis
  13. (13) S. S. Lapsley on Kasai River
  14. (14) steamer on Kasai River, carrying to the railhead an agent of the Katanga Company far gone in sleeping sickness
  15. (15) canoe at Baringa racing alongside that carrying Mr. and Mrs. Harris and carriers
  16. (16) taking the anchor of S. S. Antoinette ashore at wooding post above, Tse Modane, Kasai River
  17. (17) view on Kasai River
  18. (18) S. S. Hemptinne on the Kasai River
  19. (19) workshops at Dima, headquarters of Kasai Company
  20. (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. (21) S. S. Wall steaming up Congo River, below Matadi
  22. (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. (23) no caption [white men and a woman in front of building]
  24. (24) no caption [view of street]
  25. (25) no caption [view of scenery]
  26. (26) no caption [gun-turret? Same location as number 27]
  27. (27) no caption [gun-turret? Same location as number 26]
  28. (28) no caption (three native men)
  29. (29) no caption [men being pushed in sledge?]
  30. (30) no caption [anti-slavery delegation to London?]
  31. (31) no caption [same image as number 30]
  32. (32) no caption [same image as number 30]
  33. (33) no caption [Mr. Harris? sitting in tree]
  34. (34) no caption [anti-slavery delegation to London?]
  35. (35) no caption [view of village and landscape taken onboard a boat, similar to number 37]
  36. (36) no caption [fallen trees with water in background]
  37. (37) no caption [view of village and landscape taken onboard a boat, similar to number 35]
  38. (38) no caption [view of ship on water with oil rigs?]
  39. (39) S. S. Lapsley steaming up the Kasai
  40. (40) the sunken S. S. Matadi at Boma
  41. (41) the S. S. Wall steaming up the Congo
  42. (42) large canoe in which Mr. and Mrs. Harris travelled up the Maringa River
  43. (43) bridge over the lagoon at Lobito Bay
  44. (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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