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Page 19
File — Album: 74, Page: 19
Identifier: 74-19
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The Hamburg-based trading house of William O’Swald & Co. established an agency in Zanzibar in June 1849, having made earlier enquiries about East Africa’s commercial possibilities in 1844 and again in 1847. At the time, there was a very profitable trade in transporting cowrie shells from Zanzibar to West Africa where they were used as currency. By the mid-1850s, O’Swald together with the other German trading houses, Hertz and Hansing & Co., were despatching over twenty ships a year...
Dates:
1850s-1890s.
Three ships at anchor in Zanzibar harbour
Item — Album: 74, Page: 19
Identifier: 74-19-1
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The Hamburg-based trading house of William O’Swald & Co. established an agency in Zanzibar in June 1849, having made earlier enquiries about East Africa’s commercial possibilities in 1844 and again in 1847. At the time, there was a very profitable trade in transporting cowrie shells from Zanzibar to West Africa where they were used as currency. By the mid-1850s, O’Swald together with the other German trading houses, Hertz and Hansing & Co., were despatching over twenty ships a year...
Dates:
1850s-1890s.
Group of slaves(?) with Arab men [on board ship]
Item — Album: 74, Page: 19
Identifier: 74-19-2
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The Hamburg-based trading house of William O’Swald & Co. established an agency in Zanzibar in June 1849, having made earlier enquiries about East Africa’s commercial possibilities in 1844 and again in 1847. At the time, there was a very profitable trade in transporting cowrie shells from Zanzibar to West Africa where they were used as currency. By the mid-1850s, O’Swald together with the other German trading houses, Hertz and Hansing & Co., were despatching over twenty ships a year...
Dates:
1850s-1890s.