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Album 35

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Contains 4 Results:

Page 6

 File — Album: 35, Page: 6
Identifier: 35-6
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Small quarto (25x 22 cm.), containing 116 silver print snapshots (each approximately 11 x 7 cm.), mainly captioned, some with long annotations. Mounted on the first album leaf is a ferrotype (also known as a tintype), showing Squiers on horseback with a colleague and two Italian boys, in front of Mt. Vesuvius. Then follows the African content.

Dates: 1912-1914

Branding cattle at Kamiti: Taken at noon so that Ulyate is standing almost in his own shadow

 Item — Album: 35, Page: 6
Identifier: 35-6-1
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Small quarto (25x 22 cm.), containing 116 silver print snapshots (each approximately 11 x 7 cm.), mainly captioned, some with long annotations. Mounted on the first album leaf is a ferrotype (also known as a tintype), showing Squiers on horseback with a colleague and two Italian boys, in front of Mt. Vesuvius. Then follows the African content.

Dates: 1912-1914

Above the wildbeast head, the syce. Centre, Haranga my personal boy. Umali bin Ali, my Swahili cook and ironing boy

 Item — Album: 35, Page: 6
Identifier: 35-6-2
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Small quarto (25x 22 cm.), containing 116 silver print snapshots (each approximately 11 x 7 cm.), mainly captioned, some with long annotations. Mounted on the first album leaf is a ferrotype (also known as a tintype), showing Squiers on horseback with a colleague and two Italian boys, in front of Mt. Vesuvius. Then follows the African content.

Dates: 1912-1914

Kichungi, a Wakamba, at Hamish's skinning a buck. His one leg is all withered by a poisoned arrow. A Wakamba will do any dirty work a Kuke won't touch. Kichungi has no sense of smell and will eat meat 10 days old and even hyena and leopard. He drifted down here from Wakamba country and married a Kikuyu. He is older and uglier than this photo. makes him look.

 Item — Album: 35, Page: 6
Identifier: 35-6-3
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Small quarto (25x 22 cm.), containing 116 silver print snapshots (each approximately 11 x 7 cm.), mainly captioned, some with long annotations. Mounted on the first album leaf is a ferrotype (also known as a tintype), showing Squiers on horseback with a colleague and two Italian boys, in front of Mt. Vesuvius. Then follows the African content.

Dates: 1912-1914