Photograph album, [c.1898-1900]

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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1494

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Album including photographs, mostly captioned, of the following subjects:

Nairobi races, 1900
indigenous women carrying earth for embankments
engineers' camps
old Church and Post Office, Kilindini
Rabai Church near Mombasa
Zanzibar, showing Sultan's Palace
cricket match in aid of Famine Fund
paying wages to labourers
Prime Minister of Uganda and King of Uganda on his mother's lap
railway accidents
Read's bungalow
King Mwanga of Uganda after capture by Major Evitt
Chiefs of East Africa
the Famine, 1899
Officers of 27th Baluch Light Infantry
official opening of Salisbury Bridge
Mombasa, scenes
railway construction, showing mule transport, labourers, bridges, traction engines, inspection trolleys, etc.
arrival at Kilindini Station of Captain Scott from the Sudanese Rebellion, 1898
first passenger train on Uganda Railway
Maji Chumve Station and bridge.

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1 volume

MSS. Afr. s. 1494

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