| RCS/Fisher/Y3045C contains: |
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| 48 |
Ancient dress of Baganda of upper classes as Speke found them in 1861 |
| 49 |
Muganda Chief. War dress |
| 50 |
Baganda warriors |
| 51 |
Muganda war dress. Shoulders smeared with chalk |
| 52 |
'The bravest man in the army' restrained by a rope lest his courage should prove his ruin |
| 53 |
Mengo High School Boys being instructed in sowing para rubber seeds at Government Plantation, Kampala, 1910 |
| 54 |
Para rubber seedlings |
| 55 |
Para rubber tree 2 and a half years old |
| 56 |
Sisal estate Government Plantations, Kampala |
| 57 |
Government plantations, Kampala - nurseries and cocoa plantations with small portion of coffee estate in foreground January 1910 |
| 58 |
Government plantations, Kampala, Nurseries and cocoa plantations with rice in foreground, Jan. 1910 |
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Fisher photograph collection
| Title |
Mengo High School Boys being instructed in sowing para rubber seeds at Government Plantation, Kampala, 1910 |
| Reference |
Y3045C/53 |
| Creator |
Unknown |
| Extent and Medium |
Good condition. |
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| Content and context |
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Photographer unknown
154 x 107 mm. Showing a row of boys planting rubber seedlings beneath an awning under the supervision of a European official (possibly H. Batey, overseer of Government plantations). Rubber cultivation (inspired by Sir Henry Hesketh Bell) was not a success in Uganda: the first trees were trapped in 1908, but Hesketh Bell notes in his memoirs that the experiments were allowed to lapse shortly after he left Uganda and little rubber was ever exported on a commercial scale.
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| Further information |
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For more details on rubber tapping experiment in Entebbe, Uganda, refer to A description of the photograph can be found in 'Commonwealth in focus : 130 years of photographic history' (1982), Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia, p.97.
Refer to Y3045F2 for other views of H. Batey.
Indexed
CN 1380.
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| Index Terms |
| Africa |
| Uganda |
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