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2 Negatives
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Tymms collection on civil aviation

Title Photographs
Reference RCMS 20/2/8/1
Covering Dates 1925–1930
Extent and Medium 1 envelope; The photographs are in good condition.
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There are copies of many of the photographs in RCMS 20/2/6, 7 and 9.

RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/1 contains:
1 [Lawn Plantins]. 82 x 58 mm. A view of hills from a lawn. 1925
2 [Tropical Forest, Masaka Road, Uganda]. 87 x 136 mm. 1925
3 [Government House - Nairobi]. 89 x 62 mm. 1925
4 [Likoni landing ground site - Mombasa]. 89 x 61 mm. 1925
5 [Three women at Mombasa]. 62 x 88 mm. 1925
6 [Mombasa]. 88 x 62 mm. A house above the shoreline. 1925
7 [Three women at Mombasa]. 61 x 88 mm. 1925
8 [Mombasa]. 88 x 62 mm. A view from a rooftop looking towards the coastline. 1925
9 [Street in Mombasa]. 89 x 60 mm. 1925
10 [Zanzibar]. 82 x 60 mm. A man standing next to a pond. 1925
11 [View through archway]. 61 x 82 mm. A view from a balcony of trees and a domed building. 1925
12 [Assouan (Shellal). Seaplane Station Site on right]. 81 x 56 mm. 1928
13a [Mogren Point - Khartoum - looking towards Omdurman]. 84 x 59 mm. 1928
13b [Mogren Point - Khartoum - looking towards Omdurman]. 138 x 87 mm. 1928
14 [Khartoum - Blue Nile]. 140 x 87 mm. Boats on the shore. 1928
15 [The Nile near Jebelein]. 89 x 62 mm. 1928
16 [The Sudd - elephant grass]. 86 x 58 mm. 1928
17 [Mongalla]. 83 x 56 mm. 1928
18 [Nile Bank near Mongalla]. 137 x 85 mm. 1928
19 [The Nile at Juba]. 84 x 59 mm. 1928
20a [The Nile at Juba]. 84 x 58 mm. 1928
20b [The Nile at Juba]. 86 x 57 mm. 1928
21 [Anthill - Mongalla Province]. 92 x 143 mm. 1928
22 [Sudanese countryside]. 139 x 86 mm. 1928
23 [Ripon Falls - Jinja]. 85 x 62 mm. 1928
24 [The Mau Plateau - near Timboroa]. 139 x 86 mm. 1928
25 [Bamboo Forest - Mau Summit]. 87 x 137 mm. 1928
26 Bathing party at Clairmont near Nairobi. 84 x 59 mm. The bathers are identified on the back of the photograph as Carberry, Mrs Carberry, Bentell, Miss Thomas (a friend of Gladstone's) and Tony Gladstone. 1928
27 [Cars on road]. 157 x 106 mm. Two cars, one of which is being worked on, probably on the Nairobi-Ngong Road. 1928
28a [Kajiado]. 83 x 57 mm. The town viewed from the distance. 1928
28b [Kajiado]. 137 x 86 mm. The town viewed from the distance. 1928
29 [Kajiado drift]. 150 x 107 mm. Two vans stuck in a drift at Kajiado on the way from Nairobi to Tanganyika. A note on the back of the photograph states that the vans were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours. 1928
30 [Kajiado drift]. 155 x 108 mm. The extraction of two vans from the Kajiado drift. The vans were travelling from Nairobi to Tanganyika. They were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours. 1928
31 [Grass plains N.W. of Arusha]. 91 x 65 mm. A car on a road. 1928
32 [River Karanga]. 64 x 90 mm. The River Karanga, near Moshi, alongside the site for a landing ground. 1928
33 [Elephant grass on Handeni - Korogwe Rd]. 106 x 157 mm. Tony Gladstone and an African with a car. 1928
34 Exide battery. 156 x 108 mm. On the back of the photograph: 'Exide battery on Buick box body car after being swept off the car and mostly demolished in passing over a broken down culvert in Tanganyika. One cell was completely destroyed, the other two damaged, and the whole of the acid spilled. The remaining two cells were filled with ditch water, wiring improvised and the car driven 40 miles to the railway'. 1928
35 [Kisumu Seaplane Station Site]. 75 x 52 mm. 1928
36 [Nairobi-Mbgathi Road aerodrome site]. 85 x 59 mm. A car parked on a plain. 1928
37 [Landscape near Limoru]. 83 x 58 mm. 1928
38 [Port Bell - Seaplane Station site on left]. 82 x 56 mm. 1928
39 [Port Bell]. 80 x 59 mm. 1928
40 [Entebbe - landing ground site]. 83 x 56 mm. 1928
41 [Entebbe - landing ground site]. 82 x 56 mm. 1928
42 [Lake Victoria - Mkakata (west side)]. 81 x 55 mm. 1928
43 [Bridge in Kigesi Province]. 82 x 56 mm. 1928
44 [Two men]. 58 x 83 mm. 1929
45 [Kimberley diamond mines]. 58 x 83 mm. circa 1929
46 [Man at Kimberley mine]. 58 x 81 mm. A man with a cart, probably at the Kimberley mine. circa 1929
47a [Mineshaft]. 63 x 84 mm. A man standing in a mineshaft, probably at The Rand. circa 1930
47b [Mineshaft]. 64 x 84 mm. A man standing in a mineshaft, probably at The Rand. circa 1930
48a [Baragwanath, Johannesburg]. 84 x 66 mm. A group of buildings, one belonging to the Johannesburg Plane Club, and two planes. circa 1930
48b [Baragwanath, Johannesburg]. 83 x 62 mm. A group of buildings, one belonging to the Johannesburg Plane Club, and two planes. circa 1930
49 [Archway at Pretoria]. 62 x 83 mm. circa 1930
50 [Johannesburg to the Limpopo]. 83 x 62 mm. A plane in flight viewed from on board another plane. circa 1930
51 [The Rand]. 85 x 63 mm. circa 1930
52 [Pietersburg street]. 85 x 64 mm. Oxen pulling a cart down a street, with shops in the background. circa 1930
53 [Swimming pool at Bulawayo]. 85 x 62 mm. 1930
54 [Countryside]. 85 x 63 mm. A country scene, possibly in Southern Rhodesia. circa 1930
55 [Victoria Falls]. 123 x 164 mm.
Part of the top of the photograph has torn off..		 Dec. 1929
56 [Waterfall]. 57 x 82 mm. Probably at the Victoria Falls. circa 1929
57 [Countryside]. 85 x 59 mm. A country scene, probably in Northern Rhodesia. circa 1930
58 [Countryside]. 82 x 58 mm. A country scene, probably in Northern Rhodesia. circa 1930
59 [Termite nest]. 58 x 83 mm. circa 1930
60 [Kalambo Falls]. 60 x 83 mm. circa 1930
61 [Kalambo Falls]. 82 x 130 mm. circa 1930
62 [Lake Tanganyika]. 83 x 59 mm. Two men on the shore. circa 1930
63 [Lake Tanganyika]. 83 x 59 mm. A group of men on the shore. circa 1930
64 [Boat on water]. 83 x 60 mm. circa 1930
65 [Man with deer]. 82 x 58 mm. circa 1931
66 [Rock formation in East Africa]. 83 x 58 mm. circa 1930
67 [East African countryside]. 82 x 57 mm. circa 1930
68 [East African coastline]. 82 x 59 mm. A view of a coastline, with a boat full of people in the foreground. circa 1930
69 [Four people at Zanzibar]. 77 x 54 mm. 1930
70 [Four people at Zanzibar]. 75 x 52 mm. 1930
71a [Crowd and plane]. 83 x 59 mm. A group of people standing in front of a plane, possibly in Zanzibar. 1930
71b [Crowd and plane]. 82 x 57 mm. A group of people standing in front of a plane, possibly in Zanzibar. 1930
72 [Path lined with trees]. 52 x 78 mm. 1930
73a [East African countryside]. 78 x 55 mm. 1930
73b [East African countryside]. 79 x 51 mm. 1930
74 [Boat on water]. 76 x 52 mm. 1930
75 [Flash flood, N. Rhodesia]. 81 x 58 mm. circa 1930
76 [Man in N. Rhodesian countryside]. 129 x 80 mm. circa 1930
77 [Front of plane]. 84 x 59 mm. Undated. The plane has the marking 'City of Salonica'. circa 1930
78 [Back of plane]. 83 x 59 mm. Undated. A plane parked on water. circa 1930
79 [Man with cage]. 84 x 58 mm. Undated. A man standing next to an L-shaped instrument in wire casing. circa 1930
80a [Group of people]. 83 x 59 mm. Undated. A group of people standing in front of a house. circa 1930
80b [Group of people]. 83 x 57 mm. Undated. A group of people standing in front of a house. circa 1930
81 [Man and woman on steps]. 78 x 52 mm. Undated. circa 1930
82 [Hilly landscape]. 76 x 54 mm. Undated. A river running between hills and under a bridge in an unknown location. circa 1930
83 Means of transport in lakes in East Africa. 107 x 154 mm. Undated. Africans travelling in a boat along a river. circa 1930
84 [River crossing]. 157 x 106 mm. Undated. Africans transporting a car across a river, probably in East Africa. circa 1930
85 [Man next to plane]. 89 x 63 mm. Undated. circa 1930
86 [Hills viewed from a plane]. 83 x 62 mm. Undated. circa 1930
87 [Group of people]. 88 x 62 mm. Undated. A group of Africans and Westerners standing together in discussion. circa 1930
88 [Group of people]. 78 x 53 mm. Undated. A group of people standing outside a house. circa 1930
89 [River running through forest]. 77 x 53 mm. Undated. circa 1930

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