| Title |
Sisal growing |
| Reference |
Y304Q/6/3 |
| Covering Dates |
1948 |
| Extent and Medium |
21 images; Generally fair condition. |
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| Content and context |
Photographs showing the cultivation, treatment and export of sisal. |
| Further information |
Indexed |
| Index Terms |
| Africa |
| Tanzania |
| RCS/RCMS 162/Y304Q/6/3 contains: |
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Sisal growing in Africa. 220 x 165 mm. View of sisal growing beside a road. The caption continues: 'Full grown sisal after the first cutting has been taken. The pole is the ultimate function of the plant and after it has grown no more leaves are available.' . A further explanatory note reads: 'Sisal growing in Africa. Sisal fibre from Kenya, used before the war for binder twine, shop twine and hessian and gunny baga has become an important war priority since the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The consequent shortage of Manila hemp has resulted in sisal being very extensively used for rope manufacture. Two Kenya pioneers, Randall Swift and Ernest Rutherford planted the first sisal in the colony at the beginning of the twentieth century having brought plants from German East Africa. The sisal plant, originally a native of Mexico flourished in East Africa and by 1939 these territories were producing about half the worlds supply. Although the plant grew well the sisal industry didn't flourish, it is an expensive crop to deal with and from 1930 to 1941 there was a bad slump in the trade. Then the Japanese seized Manila and sisal in Kenya became a number one priority of industry when everything possible was done to help the sisal planter in his war effort. These pictures were taken on one of the largest sisal estates in Kenya.' Here Wilson may be mistaken here, as nearly all of the other photographs accompanying this one are captioned 'sisal in Tanganyika' (i.e. Tanzania), as is the envelope they were originally housed in.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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2
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Plantations near the Usambara Mountains (Tanga province). 160 x 210 mm. Showing a sisal plantation with mountains in the background.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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3
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Close up of young sisal plants in the nursery. 160 x 210 mm. Detailed view.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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4
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Cutting the leaves. 160 x 210 mm. Showing a man using a small knife to cut the leaves from a sisal plant.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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5
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A Tanzania sisal estate. 210 x 160 mm. Showing a man Stacking bundles of sisal beside the railway track.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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6
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Tying the freshly cut leaves into bundles. 160 x 210 mm. Showing a man at work on a sisal estate.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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7
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[Stacking bundles of sisal]. 160 x 210 mm. Showing a man stacking bundles of freshly cut sisal beside the plantation.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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8
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Loading the bundles of leaves onto trucks for transport to the factory. 210 x 160 mm. Showing four workers stacking bundles.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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9
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[Loading the bundles of leaves onto trucks for transport to the factory]. 210 x 160 mm. Showing two men stacking bundles.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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10
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Stacking bundles beside the railway track. 210 x 160 mm. Showing a man at work on a sisal estate.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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11
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Tying the cut leaves into bundles. 210 x 160 mm. Showing a young man or boy at work on a sisal estate.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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12
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Arrival of a load of leaves at the factory. 210 x 160 mm. Showing eight loads of bundles outside a sisal factory.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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13
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A typical drying ground with sisal plantation in the background. 210 x 160 mm. Showing rows of sisal strung out to dry.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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14
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[A typical drying ground with sisal plantation in the background]. 210 x 160 mm. Showing rows of sisal strung out to dry.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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15
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Decortication of the leaves. 210 x 160 mm. Showing sisal being treated in a factory.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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16
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Sisal drying. 110 x 110 mm. Showing young boys hanging sisal out to dry. The caption continues: 'After the fibres have been separated from the sisal leaves, young workers lay it over wires to dry in the sun.'.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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17
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Bales of sisal ready for transport to the coast for shipment. 210 x 160 mm. Showing bales stamped with 'Consol K UG'.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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18
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Baling for export. 210 x 160 mm. Showing stacked bales at the factory.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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19
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Sisal growing in Africa. 165 x 210 mm. Showing full-grown sisal after the first cutting has been taken.
Fair condition.. |
1948 |
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20
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[Sisal plantation beside a road]. 215 x 165 mm. General view, with mountains in the distance.
Fair condition. |
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20A
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[Sisal plantation beside a road]. 215 x 165 mm. General view, with mountains in the distance.
Fair condition.. |
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