Album 74
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Malindi housing. Merchants Palace in the distance
Item — Album: 74, Page: 3
Identifier: 74-3-2
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.
Malindi, including the old sea front
Item — Album: 74, Page: 4
Identifier: 74-4-1
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.
View of town; the church is under construction
Item — Album: 74, Page: 4
Identifier: 74-4-2
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.
Erstes Wohnhaus von Wm. O’Swald & Co., 1847
Item — Album: 74, Page: 5
Identifier: 74-5-1
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.
Neues Wohnhaus von Wm. O’Swald & Co., bezogen 1870
Item — Album: 74, Page: 5
Identifier: 74-5-2
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.
View of the waterfront from the sea, including the old British Agency
Item — Album: 74, Page: 6
Identifier: 74-6-1
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.
Waterfront, with the O’Swald building identified
Item — Album: 74, Page: 6
Identifier: 74-6-2
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.
Melindi front
Item — Album: 74, Page: 7
Identifier: 74-7-1
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.
View from the sea of the Palace Square and Harem
Item — Album: 74, Page: 7
Identifier: 74-7-2
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.