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British East Africa, Between 1900 and circa 1920

 Record Group — Carton: 8
Identifier: 8
Abstract

Group of 5 albums recording colonial life and native life. 1900 to circa 1920. The subjects vary from album to album, several of which appear to have been compiled for Inglis’s mother.

Dates: Between 1900 and circa 1920

East Africa, Circa 1910

 File — Envelope: 13
Identifier: 13
Abstract

Collection of original photographs relating to East Africa. Circa 1910.

Dates: Circa 1910

East Africa, Circa 1910

 Record Group — Album: 16
Identifier: 16
Abstract

Apparently the record of a safari to British East Africa and Uganda during which the compiler stayed with the Aubertin family at their farm and went on a hunting trip.

Dates: Circa 1910

East Africa Protectorate, Circa 1899-1902

 Record Group — Carton: 21
Identifier: 21
Abstract

Original photographs, compiled during the construction of the Uganda Railway.

Dates: Circa 1899-1902

East Africa Protectorate, Circa 1899-1902

 Record Group — Group: 21, Album: 2
Identifier: 21-2
Abstract

Album of original photographs, compiled during the construction of the Uganda Railway.

Dates: Circa 1899-1902

Erinnerung an Deutsch-Ost-Afrika, 1890-1892

 File — Group: 29, Folio: 1
Identifier: 29-1
Abstract

Portfolio of original photographs of East Africa entitled, ‘Erinnerung an Deutsch-Ost-Afrika’, 1890-2. A highly important, early record of the German presence in East Africa and Zanzibar and, in particular, the military stations they established in what became German East Africa.

Dates: 1890-1892

German East Africa

 Record Group — Carton: 29
Identifier: 29
Abstract Portfolio of original photographs of East Africa entitled, ‘Erinnerung an Deutsch-Ost-Afrika’, 1890-2. With a small box of contemporary military visiting cards and some correspondence in German, plus a small circular silver print (10 cm. in diameter) of a German passenger ship, identified on the wooden frame, ‘D.O.A.L., Kanzler’. A highly important, early record of the German presence in East Africa and Zanzibar and, in particular, the military stations they established in what became German...
Dates: 1860-1960; Majority of material found within 1880-1920

Portraits of African people, landscapes, and buildings, 1920s and 1930s

 Record Group — Group: 49, Album: 3
Identifier: 49-3
Abstract

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

Dates: 1920s and 1930s

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

South Africa to Egypt via the East African Coast Zanzibar and Aden, late 1890s

 Record Group — Album: 6
Identifier: 6
Abstract

Large album, labeled Africa to Egypt via the East African Coast Zanzibar and Aden. Various photographers, late 1890s.

Dates: late 1890s

Sudan & Uganda, 1920s and 1930s

 Record Group — Carton: 49
Identifier: 49
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1920s and 1930s