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A. C. Gomes & Son

 Organization

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

A large ivory tusk weighing over 200 lbs, from Kilimanjoro S.E. Africa

 Item — Group 14, Album: 2, Page: 59
Identifier: 14-2-59-2
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Contains numerous silver prints (all captioned), autographs, press clippings, watercolors, postcards and maps. Several pages include what appear to be clippings of signatures from letters, including one of Hesketh Bell, the governor of Uganda. Note that although the photographs are all captioned, the captions are not listed in the original inventory of the Winterton Collection.

Dates: 1907-1908

Aden 1900

 Item — Album 57, Page: 4
Identifier: 57-4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs is comprised of about 6,500 photographs organized in 75 primary collections of separate albums, scrapbooks or loose collections. Primary collections range from a single photograph to a set of several photograph albums plus envelopes of loose photographs.

Dates: Circa 1900

African photographs, Zanzibar, 1906

 Record Group — Album 63
Identifier: 63
Abstract

Album of original and commercial photographs compiled by Francis William Hardie of Haddington, Scotland. Various photographers (includes A. C. Gomes and Coutinho Bros.), circa 1906.

Dates: 1906

Postcards, Circa 1890s-1930s

 Class — Carton 43
Identifier: 43
Abstract

Unique collection of 363 postcards of East Africa and Zanzibar. Various photographers, 1890s–1930s.

Dates: Circa 1890s-1930s

Sansibar 1900

 Item — Album 57, Page: 5
Identifier: 57-5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs is comprised of about 6,500 photographs organized in 75 primary collections of separate albums, scrapbooks or loose collections. Primary collections range from a single photograph to a set of several photograph albums plus envelopes of loose photographs.

Dates: Circa 1900

Sansibar und Deutsch-Ost-Afrika, Circa 1900

 Record Group — Album 57
Identifier: 57
Abstract

Album of original photographs of German East Africa and Zanzibar.

Dates: Circa 1900

Shamba Street, Z'bar

 Item — Group 75, Album: 4, Page: 10
Identifier: 75-4-10-1
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Folio (38 x 28 cm), containing numerous postcards, press clippings, original photographs, menus, leaflets, business cards and autographs; original blue cloth boards, rebacked, ‘Zanzibar’ blocked in gilt on spine. The scrapbook contains considerable memorabilia collected by Mrs. Clarke, some from the Chukwani Palace, including a place setting card for dinner with the Sultan

Dates: 1908-1909

Zanzibar, Circa 1900

 File — Envelope 61
Identifier: 61
Abstract

Group of 10 original photographs of people and scenes of Zanzibar. Gomes & Co., circa 1900.

Dates: Circa 1900

Zanzibar & Eastern Africa, Circa 1900

 File — Envelope 66
Identifier: 66
Abstract

Collection of 23 original photographs. A. C. Gomes & Co. (Zanzibar), and other photographers, circa 1900.

Dates: Circa 1900

Zanzibar and Uganda, Circa 1890s-1930s

 Record Group — Group 43, Album: 1
Identifier: 43-1
Abstract

An album of postcards, mostly from Zanzibar and Uganda, with a few from Kenya and Ethiopia. Includes images of the Sultan of Zanzibar, Zanzibar, and Ugandan royalty from the first decade of 1900. Many of the postcards from Kenya include trains and railways, published by the East African Railways and Harbours Administration, later the East African Railways Corporation.

Dates: Circa 1890s-1930s