Great Britain. Army

Photograph of a landscape with soldiers.

Photograph of a landscape with tents and soldiers standing in formation.

Group portrait photograph of Brigadier-General Schneider and European officers.

Albumen print (10 x 16 cm.), depicting Captain Speedy reclining in a studio setting, sporting his Abyssinian costume and holding a spear. Signed on the reverse, ‘Yours very truly, T. C. S. Speedy as “Basha Fellaka”.

1 uncaptioned photograph of four European military officers in a tented camp.

Photograph of British soldiers.

Group portrait photograph of General Petrie and two other European officers.

Posed photographs of Capt. G.R. King and his cohorts, an overland trip during the rainy season, and unposed photographs of African civilians and soldiers.

Signed cabinet photograph of General Charles George Gordon.

Group portrait photograph of Dr. Currie and British military medical officers.

Album of 80 original photographs "taken during the Progress of the Expedition to Abyssinia for the Release of the Prisoners, by the photographers of the 10th Company, Royal Engineers", 1867-8.

Posed portrait photographs of African people, probably Karamojong and some Didinga, landscapes, and buildings.

Group portrait photograph of Sir C. Staveley and European officers.

Portrait photograph of Sir Robert Napier and British officers.

Group portrait photograph of Sir Robert Napier and British officers.

These photograph albums provide an excellent record of native life in the 1920s and 1930s, and include some remarkably poignant portraits. Although many of the images are small in dimension, they are extremely fine in quality.