Janus: Fisher photograph collection

RCS/Fisher/Y3045C contains:
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9	Group at Govt. [i.e. Government] House, Entebbe
10	Prison building, Entebbe
11	Entebbe Pier, with Ry. [Railway] Steamers alongside
12	Jinja Pier with Ry.[Railway] Steamer and steam ferry alongside
13	Munyonyo Bay, Victoria, Nyanza
14	Lakeshore evacuated. Elephant grass in the foreground will grow 12 feet in one year.
15	Rickshaw travelling
16	Survey Caravan
17	Governor's return from leave : palm decorations on Pier
18	Tractor and monorail leaving Port Bell from Kampala
19	His Highness the Kabaka of Uganda in his State Chair
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Fisher photograph collection

Title	Lakeshore evacuated. Elephant grass in the foreground will grow 12 feet in one year.
Reference	Y3045C/14
Creator	Hattersley, Charles William, 1866-1934, missionary
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

Content and context

148 x 105 mm. A view from the shore looking towards Lake Victoria with tall elephant grass in the foreground; exact location unidentified. The evacuation referred to was Sir Henry Hesketh Bell's decision to depopulate an area two miles wide and several hundred miles long on the shores of Lake Victoria in a largely successful attempt to eradicate the sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda which in some years previous to 1908 was killing 30 000 people a year.

Further information

A section of this photograph is reproduced in Hattersley, C.W. (1908), 'The Baganda at home', London: Religious Tract Society.

For more details on Hesketh Bell's part in this operation see the Hesketh Bell Collection, Y3011D/22 - Y3011D/25.

Indexed

Index Terms

Africa

Uganda

Victoria, Lake

Hattersley, Charles William (1866-1934) missionary

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