Janus: Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

RCS/Y3011C-N contains:
Y3011C	Uganda 1906-09
Y3011D	Uganda and Northern Nigeria 1908-12
Y3011E	Northern Nigeria and the Leeward Islands 1911-14
Y3011F	Photographs of myself 1866 - circa 1940
Y3011G	Miscellaneous photographs from Uganda, Northern Nigeria, the Caribbean and Mauritius 1899-1930s
Y3011H	Miscellaneous and unidentified prints circa 1900 - circa 1920s
Y3011I	Dominica 1900-03
Y3011J	Leeward Islands and Mauritius, 1914-1919
Y3011K	Mauritius, 1919-1924
Y3011L	Watercolour views of the Middle East, Far East and France, 1925-27
Y3011M	[River scene near Srinagar, Kashmir, circa 1925]
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Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

Title	Uganda and Northern Nigeria 1908-12
Reference	Y3011D
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	Nov. 1908-Mar. 1912
Extent and Medium	165 images in 1 album; Mainly in fair to good condition.

Content and context

A scrapbook album containing prints by various photographers, including Alfred Lobo. The prints are of various sizes and the majority are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Among the scenes and events depicted in the album are the Kampala Exhibition of 1908, views of Government House, Entebbe, the visit of Winston Churchill to Uganda in 1907, sleeping sickness sufferers in Uganda and durbars in Northern Nigeria.

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RCS/Y3011C-N/Y3011D contains:

[Opening of the Kampala Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, November 9 1908]. 200 x 110 mm. Showing Sir Henry Hesketh Bell delivering the opening speech from the verandah of the main exhibition building. On either side of Bell stand various officials and the Kings of Uganda, they in turn flanked by European spectators, with a line of Sikh guards on parade along the front of the building. The figure standing in profile on the steps beneath Bell is almost certainly George Wilson, Deputy Commissioner. The preparations for the exhibition were not completed without hitches: 'The next great affair that has occupied us much during the last week was the Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition at Kampala, held in honour of the King's birthday. It came off yesterday and was most successful ... So many contretemps occurred that I feared the exhibition would have been an utter failure. In the first place the parts for the repair of the motor-car did not arrive in time and we only had the motor-van running. Also the fine display of fireworks that I had ordered failed to turn up. Large State Umbrellas which I had proposed to present to the Kings did not arrive in time, and worst of all, a tremendous shower of rain came down just before the opening of the exhibition and did a lot of damage to the decorations.' (Bell 1908, November 10). In spite of this the exhibition was a success and the products shown were described in an article by E.B. Bronson: 'After a brief address of welcome to the visiting dignitaries and of congratulations upon their progress in education and in organized industry, Governor Bell received in turn the visiting feudatories and their chiefs, and the exhibition was declared open. Then the dignitaries and visitors dispersed among the exhibits, viewed the samples of most excellent wheat, corn, cassava flour, chillies, peas, beans, peanuts, rice, yams, ghee (clarified butter), potatoes, rubber, beeswax, of vegetables and fruits; saw the production of coffee in all its stages ... were shown cotton in the boll and in the ginning; marvelled at the native cunning of the basket and mat and cloth weavers, the patience and fair handwork of the ironsmiths with none but the crudest of tools; stood in dumb surprise before the long line of round-mallet-wielding barkcloth makers, and saw a small eighteen-inch square of tree bark slowly expand to the proportions of an ample mantle, the finished product smooth and soft of texture, the colour any of many tints from pale amber to Indian red ...' (Bronson 1910). This photograph, and the following prints relating to the exhibition are most probably by the commercial photographer Alfred Lobo although Bell records that many photographers were at work at the opening: 'Numberless photographers were at work at the Exhibition, and I think that, at one moment, there must have been 20 cameras focussed on the Pavilion while I was making my speech. All the Kings and the Chiefs made a brave show, and you are sure to see some of the pictures in the papers.' (Bell 1908, November 10).
Creator: Lobo, Alfred, fl 1900-1939, photographer.
Fair condition, some glue staining at corners..

Nov. 9 1908

[Opening of the Kampala Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, November 9 1908]. 200 x 152 mm. A group photograph of Protectorate officials and Ugandan Kabakas and counsellors taken shortly after Bell's opening of the exhibition. Identified in the group are: 1. Sir Apolo Kagwa; 2. Kahaya, Kabaka of Ankole; 3. George Wilson, Deputy Commissioner; 4. Frank Burton; 5. Daudi Chwa, Kabaka of Buganda; 6. Alexander Boyle; 7. Sir Henry Hesketh Bell; 8. Captain Edward Vaughan Jenkins D.S.O., O.C. 4th K.A.R.; 9. Andereya Bisereko Duhaga II, Kabaka of Bunyoro; 10. Daudi Kasagama, Kabaka of Toro. (Numbers refer to key beside print).
Creator: Lobo, Alfred, fl 1900-1939, photographer.
Good condition..

Nov. 9 1908

Kings and Chiefs at the Exhibition. 201 x 145 mm. A group portrait showing the Kabakas of Uganda and their counsellors and chiefs in the Kampala Exhibition grounds, with Namirembe Cathedral visible on the skyline in the background.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Daudi, King of Uganda. 119 x 94 mm. Showing the young Kabaka seated on a pony.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

Winning the Marathon Race. 26 miles in 3 hrs 3 mins. 118 x 101 mm. A slightly blurred print showing Kapere crossing the finishing line of the marathon race run on November 8 1908 in conjunction with the Kampala Exhibition. The race is described in a clipping from an unidentified newspaper pasted into this album: 'There were 48 competitors, representing the fleetest runners in each of the four kingdoms comprised in the Protectorate, and an intense spirit of rivalry animated all the tribes concerned. The course measured exactly 26 miles, and lay along the high road between Entebbe and Kampala. The runners were followed the whole way by European cyclists, and their progress was intimated to the expectant crowds in the exhibition by telephones established at various distances along the course. In spite of the fact that much rain fell, and the track was consequently heavy, the winner reached the post in the remarkable time of 3 hrs 3 mins, or only seven minutes in excess of the Shepherd's Bush record.'. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the background cheering on the leader.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Nov. 8 1908

First and second in the Marathon Race. 149 x 200 mm. Showing the winner of the marathon, Kapere (number 12) and the man in second place, a native of Kyambalango named Leobeni (number 11) posed in the Exhibition grounds after the race.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Nov. 8 1908

Start of the Marathon Race. 79 x 101 mm. Showing the competitors in the race lined up on the roadway outside the sleeping sickness hospital at Entebbe.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Nov. 8 1908

On the Kampala Road. 79 x 81 mm. Showing three competitors in the Marathon running along the Kampala road towards the camera.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight staining..

Nov. 8 1908

A load of ladies off to Kampala. 85 x 85 mm. Showing a group of women in the back of one of the Government lorries introduced into Uganda by Bell in 1908. The group is presumably being carried from Entebbe to Kampala for the exhibition.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Nov. 1908

Site of Government House. Entebbe. 1907. 87 x 86 mm. A view showing the mud and thatch buildings of the old police lines on the site of the new Government House.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1907

Ankole cattle. 87 x 87 mm. Showing a group of long horned Ankole cattle (possibly those exhibited at the Kampala Exhibition by Kabaka Kahaya of Ankole) grazing in a pen.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Government House, Entebbe. 205 x 145 mm. A view looking across the lawn towards the Government House. The annotation on the reverse reads: 'Facade overlooking view of the Lake [Victoria]. Note the lion cubs on the lawn'. The house was built by Captain Philip Osbert Gordon Usborne, a Royal Engineer selected by Bell as Director of Public Works in 1907. Photograph by Alfred Lobo.
Creator: Lobo, Alfred, fl 1900-1939, photographer.
Good condition..

Garden Party, Government House [1909]. 199 x 148 mm. Showing a large group, with Bell in the centre, posed on the steps and verandah of Government House, Entebbe. The group presumably shows all the guests present at a garden party celebrating the presentation by Bell of a second Challenge Cup to the Entebbe Golf Club in January 1909. Figures identified in this group are: George Wilson, seated next to Bell; Frank Burton, at extreme right; Captain W.H. Nicholson, at centre of group in left foreground; Captain E.V. Jenkins, at centre of group in background; R.V. Allen, back row at centre of main group; (?) A.G. Boyle, third from left in front row. Photograph by Alfred Lobo.
Creator: Lobo, Alfred, fl 1900-1939, photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

1909

The Residency, Entebbe, Uganda, 1908. 136 x 77 mm. A postcard reproduction showing the corrugated-iron roofed building which served as Government House until Bell's new building was completed in 1908. His first impressions of the Residency were not enthusiastic: '6th May ... I cannot say much, however, for Government House. It is a very large bungalow of wood and iron, raised high on piles, and is as ugly and prosaic a building as one would not wish to see. I hope, before I leave Uganda, to have something much better than this. I have already cast my eye on a delightful eminence, at the back of the town, from which there is a wonderful view of the lake and on which the Government House of the future ought, I think, to stand.' (Bell 1946, pp. 114-115). The old building was sold and became the Hotel Victoria and later still the Secretariat.
Creator: Unknown.

May 1906

Interior, Govt. House. 146 x 200 mm. A view from the drawing room looking through a series of curtained arches, the one in the foreground flanked by a pair of elephant tusks.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. 87 x 72 mm. Showing Winston Churchill standing at the edge of the Ripon Falls and holding a large box camera. Churchill, at this period, Parliamentray Under-Secretary for the Colonies, made an East African tour in the latter part of 1907. His trip, which is described in Churchill (1908), started at Mombasa and continued through British East Africa (now Kenya) and the Uganda Protectorate to Jinja; from there the Nile was followed north through the Sudan and Egypt to Alexandria. Churchill arrived in Entebbe on November 18 and Bell accompanied him to Kampala and Jinja (see Bell (1946), pp 166-173).
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some yellowing along top edge..

1907

Winston Churchill addressing Chiefs. 88 x 70 mm. Showing Churchill seated at the right while a European interpreter addresses a group of chiefs. Sir Apolo Kagwa can be seen in the right foreground. This is presumably the occasion described by Bell: 'About five miles from Kampala we found the little Kabaka, the Regents and all the big Uganda chiefs. They had built a very pretty banda on a hillock overlooking the road and, when they all advanced towards us in the bright sunlight, they made a very imposing spectacle in their handsome gala robes. The Baganda are adepts at spectacular effects, and the Chiefs show a remarkable sense of dignity. But Churchill, on this occasion, spoilt their effects, as he was a perfect nuisance, dodging about with his camera all the time, taking snapshots.' (Bell 1946, p 168). Churchill, in Churchill (1908), pp 109-110, also describes this meeting but he makes no mention of a speech.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1907

Opening of Kampala Exhibition. 200 x 130 mm. A group portrait of Protectorate officials and Ugandan Kabakas and counsellors taken shortly after Bell's opening of the exhibition. Photograph probably by Alfred Lobo.
Creator: Lobo, Alfred, fl 1900-1939, photographer.
Good condition..

Nov. 9 1908

Grounds of old Government House, Entebbe. Visit of the little King. 206 x 119 mm. Showing a guard of honour preceded by drummers entering the grounds of Government House, followed by tongas containing Daudi Chwa and other Ugandan dignitaries.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

The members of the Entebbe Golf Club. 205 x 149 mm. A group photograph with Bell seated in the centre behind the 'Hesketh Bell Challenge Cup' presented by him in January 1909. W.H. Nicholson and Dr. H.B. Owen, joint winners of the new cup, which was played for on January 22 and 23, are seated on either side of Bell. Photograph by Alfred Lobo.
Creator: Lobo, Alfred, fl 1900-1939, photographer.
Good condition..

Jan. 1909

H.R.H. the Duke of the Abruzzi [1909]. 79 x 83 mm. Showing the Duke of Abruzzi, Prince Luigi Amedeo Guiseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco (1873-1933) standing on the steps leading to the verandah of a house in Uganda. Abruzzi, an explorer and mountaineer who had led a Polar expedition in 1900, and climbed Mt. Ruwenzori in 1906, visited East Africa again in 1909 to climb Mt. Kenya. Abruzzi was later (1915-17) Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Navy.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, slight chemical staining..

1909

Sufferers from sleeping sickness. 170 x 123 mm. Showing sleeping sickness victims seated in a village clearing. Sleeping sickness reached epidemic proportions in Uganda in the early years of the century, and in May 1902 Colonel (later, Sir) James Sadler reported that 20,000 people had died in Busoga alone. In 1902 a Royal Society Commission consisting of Drs. Low, Christy and Castellani arrived to investigate the problem and in 1903 Colonel (later, Sir) David Bruce discovered that the tsetse fly was the source of transmission of the disease. Further investigations confirmed that the tsetse fly flourished only in shady land near water but the cost of clearing the land along the shores of lake Victoria was regarded as prohibitive and Bell on his own initiative instituted in November 1906 a policy of evacuating the lakeside community and setting up medical camps for sleeping sickness sufferers. The Colonial Office sanctioned these steps in 1907 and by 1909 the scourge, which between 1898 and 1906 had killed over 200,000 people, was largely defeated.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading..

Sufferers from sleeping sickness. 172 x 122 mm. Showing sleeping sickness sufferers seated or lying in a village square.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Sleeping sickness. 168 x 120 mm. Showing patients seated or lying in a village banana plantation.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading..

A funeral. 110 x 80 mm. Showing a procession of women following a body carried on a stretcher.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Trophies of game shot by me during six weeks. 204 x 150 mm. Showing Bell seated among trophies with his A.D.C. Captain Burton seated at the right. The figure seated at the left has not been identified. Although mounted in his scrapbook next to a report of a tour through the Eastern Province in August 1908, this photograph does not appear to relate to that trip, on which Bell wrote 'we saw nothing to shoot ... and the tour, from a sporting point of view, was a failure' (Bell 1908, September 4). The tour which resulted in these trophies was probably that of January 1907 when Bell shot his first elephant (see Bell (1946), pp 149-151, Bell (1907-1909), January 21 1907 and Bell (1907), January 21). This photograph may be the one referred to in Bell (1908), May 4: 'There is a picture of me in The Sketch of April 8th' and in Bell (1908), July 7: 'I received the other day, an enlargement of the photo of myself with my trophies. It is quite an excellent picture and looks splendid'.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight chemical staining..

Lango women carrying babies. 87 x 87 mm. Showing a group of Lango women (a Nilotic tribe inhabiting the Lango District in the Northern Province of Central Uganda) carrying their children on their backs in containers shaped like snails' shells.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Bakedi dance. 105 x 81 mm. Showing a group of Bukedi men grouped in a circle with figures in the centre leaping into the air. Bell visited the Bukedi area during his tour of the Eastern Province in 1909.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1909

[Captain Burton outside bungalow]. 87 x 87 mm. Showing Bell's A.D.C. Captain Burton seated on the steps leading up to the verandah of an unidentified bungalow.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

On the road to Kampala. 87 x 86 mm. Showing a motor car driving along the Kampala road. The motor car was introduced into Uganda by Bell in 1908.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

King of Buganda and self in motor car. 87 x 87 mm. Showing Bell and the young Kabaka of Buganda Daudi Chwa seated in the back seat of the motor car, with an unidentified European in the front seat. Hesketh Bell records the arrival of the motor car in Uganda: '20th April [1908] ... some months ago I ordered from Home a motor car for my use and a motor lorry, and they have arrived. Both are of 'Albion' make. These are the first motor cars ever seen in Uganda and they are making a great sensation among the natives. They are run partly on kerosene and partly on petrol and are, so far, giving good results. The lorry will be used for the transport of cotton and, if it prove a success, will certainly be followed by others.' (Bell 1946, p. 179). The African figure standing beside the motor car is Sir Apolo Kagwa, the Katikiro of Buganda.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

[Interior of Government House, Entebbe]. 87 x 86 mm. Showing a hallway and staircase in Government House, Entebbe.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

[Interior of Government House, Entebbe]. 88 x 86 mm. A view looking from one drawing room, through an archway flanked by elephant tusks, to a second room furnished with wicker chairs.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

[Guardhouse, Government House, Entebbe]. 87 x 71 mm. Showing the guardhouse, a brick building in Indian style, with two Sikh soldiers on parade in front of it.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Interior of Government House. 88 x 88 mm. A view looking across a drawing room towards an archway flanked by elephant tusks.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Interior of Government House. 88 x 87 mm. A view of a drawing room.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

[Government of Uganda Lorry]. 88 x 72 mm. Showing the Government lorry standing in front of Government House, Entebbe.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Futki in front of Government House. 87 x 75 mm. Showing the Indian elephant Futki with her mahout Shiek Munshi standing on the lawn in front of Government House. The arrival of Futki in Uganda was the result of Bell's attempt to introduce transport elephants into the Protectorate. Futki, aged 45, came from Jalpaiguri in NW Bengal and arrived at Entebbe on January 25 1909. The experiment proved unsuccessful however, Futki refusing to take part in any work apart from shikar duties for which she was trained and ceremonial parades which she enjoyed. On the first attempt to harness Futki she 'suddenly swelled out her belly and, with the sound of rifle shots, most of the fine new harness burst asunder in various places' (Bell 1946, p 198). On the second and final attempt to train her for mundane tasks, Futki ran amok with the wagon and succeeded in destroying it. The high cost of Futki's feed and the wages of her mahout ('a diminutive Bengalese of aggravating appearance, and to whom I have already taken an unreasoning dislike', (Bell 1946, p 197)), together with the introduction of motorised transport eventually led to her being sold, and on March 8 1910 she boarded the S.S. Herzog en route to Hamburg Zoo. Her ultimate fate is not known.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

South side of Government House. 154 x 200 mm. A view looking across the croquet lawn towards the south façade of Government House.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

The 'Church' in Entebbe in 1909. 87 x 63 mm. Showing the small mud and thatch hut which served as the church in Entebbe. Bell laid the foundation stone for a new church in April 1908 ('On Tuesday last I laid the foundation stone of the new church for Entebbe. I made rather a long speech, and was presented with a handsome silver trowel with a handle of hippo ivory. The Church will be only a very small one, and intended for officials and other white people. The design is pretty and it is expected that the building will be finished in about 12 months.' (Bell 1908, April 14)).
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1909

Forty winks. 74 x 100 mm. A staged photograph showing Bell pretending to be asleep on the verandah of a bungalow with a large dead python posed as if approaching him up the steps.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Wedding of Dr. Reford - April 1909. Group taken in the grounds of Judge Ennis's house. 198 x 144 mm. Showing Bell and Dr. Reford standing in the centre of a large group of wedding guests. His wife Grace, nee Parker, is seated at the front of the group. Dr. John Hope Reford C.M.G. (1873-1957) was a Medical Officer in Uganda from 1907 until his retirement as Director of Medical Services in 1928. Judge George Francis Macdaniel Ennis (1868-1933) who practised as a judge in East Africa between 1899-1912 and in Ceylon between 1912-1925 is probably the figure standing behind Bell's right shoulder. On Reford's left stands Alfred Robert Tucker (1849-1914), an early missionary in East Africa and who was Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa from 1890-1899 and Bishop of Uganda from 1899-1911.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from bend in one corner..

Apr. 1909

[South side of Government House, Entebbe]. 200 x 151 mm. A view looking across the croquet lawn towards the south façade of Government House.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Kima. 61 x 86 mm. A snapshot of Bell holding his pet monkey Kima.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Futki. 86 x 75 mm. Showing Bell standing beside the elephant Futki in the grounds of Government House.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

King of Toro on Futki. 87 x 76 mm. Showing Dandi Kasagama (1870-1928), the Mukama of Toro from 1891-1928, riding on Futki's back beneath a state umbrella. The photograph was taken during Bell's tour of the western districts in January-March 1909.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Jan. 1909-Mar. 1909

[Futki washing]. 93 x 89 mm. Showing Futki and her mahout Shiek Munshi washing in a jungle river.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Jan. 1909-Mar. 1909

[Hesketh Bell and lion cubs]. 87 x 70 mm. Showing Bell seated on a verandah with his two pet lion cubs.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Jan. 1909-Mar. 1909

Camp in Bwekula [Buwekula in Mubende]. 88 x 70 mm. Showing a double row of banana and palm trees forming an avenue leading up to a thatched hut. In the foreground are an unidentified European on a horse and an African youth, probably Daudi Chwa.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Jan. 1909-Mar. 1909

Carriers waiting for loads. 88 x 87 mm. Showing a long line of porters seated on the ground, probably outside Government House, at the start of Bell's 1909 tour.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Jan. 1909

Road to Toro. 87 x 86 mm. A view looking along the newly made Toro road.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Jan. 1909

On the road from Mubende. 86 x 82 mm. Showing Bell's motor car being driven across an improvised bridge on the road from Mubende. Bell's party left Mubende towards the end of February on his 1909 tour of the western districts.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Feb. 1909

Tapping the wires. 88 x 87 mm. Showing four unidentified figures standing at the base of a telegraph pole.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Jan. 1909-Mar. 1909

In the Kedong Valley. 88 x 86 mm. Showing African horsemen and porters in the tall grass at the base of the Kedong Valley.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Jan. 1909-Mar. 1909

[Lion cub]. 70 x 87 mm.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

H.R.H. Duchess D'Aosta. 70 x 86 mm. A full length portrait of the Duchess D'Aosta standing in a garden. The Duchess D'Aosta, a daughter of the Comte de Paris and also known as Princess Hélène de France, arrived in Entebbe in mid-March 1908 in company with Lady Susan Hicks-Beach and an Italian count. The visit is described in Bell (1946), pp 177-178 and Bell (1908), January 7, January 20, March 17, March 30.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Mar. 1908

Buffalo calf. 87 x 69 mm. Showing an African orderly holding a buffalo calf and one of Bell's pet lion cubs on leashes.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Kasagama, King of Toro. 89 x 86 mm. Showing Dandi Kasagama standing with officials of state beneath an umbrella.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

View near Lake Albert. 87 x 87 mm. A view from a hillside looking over wooded land towards the shore of Lake Albert. This and the following plates were probably taken during Bell's tour of the Western Province in January-March 1907.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Jan. 1907-Mar. 1907

Ivory from the Congo. 88 x 86 mm. Showing rows of elephant tusks laid out on the roadside.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Lion cubs. 88 x 87 mm. Showing Bell's lion cubs seated on the ground.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Mubende. 88 x 82 mm. Showing the Albion lorry and motor car parked in front of the building erected shortly before Bell's 1909 visit.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1909

On Lake Albert. 88 x 75 mm. Showing two sailing vessels near the shores of Lake Albert.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1907

On the Semliki River. 88 x 75 mm. Showing Europeans poling a boat along the Semliki.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1907

Parade of King's African Rifles, Kampala. 99 x 67 mm. A distant view showing Bell and a European officer walking towards the troops on parade. Date unknown.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Parade of King's African Rifles, Kampala. 99 x 64 mm. A view showing soldiers on parade with spectators on the hillside beyond.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

Tyrell. 128 x 84 mm. Showing Captain C.H. Tyrell and two African bearers seated on the corpse of a recently shot elephant.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1907

Reford and a fortnight's bag. 104 x 64 mm. Showing Reford and two Africans posed among a collection of eight elephant tusks of various sizes.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight yellowing..

[Futki]. 88 x 76 mm. Showing Bell seated in a howdah on Futki the elephant's back, with the mahout Shief Munshi seated on the animal's neck and the syce (groom) standing to one side. With Government House in the background.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition apart from bend along one edge..

Les Maitres de l'aviation: De Salvert sur son biplan système Voisin. 139 x 89 mm. A postcard view showing De Salvert seated in his biplane. The picture is annotated 'Rheims. Aug. 1909' in Bell's hand.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Aug. 1909

Monorail. Port Bell to Kampala 1909. 100 x 76 mm.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

1909

Road across the Mpologoma. 90 x 82 mm. Showing a road under construction beside the Mpologama River, visited by Bell in 1909: 'At the place where we crossed the Mpologoma, on our way to Mbale, the river is about a mile and a half wide ... A pontoon ferry boat is in course of construction and will soon be ready. Loaded waggons with their teams of oxen will then be able to cross easily, and much time which is now lost through the use of canoes will be saved. It is estimated that considerable revenue will acrue from rates charged for ferriage.' (Bell 1909).
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some fading..

1909

In Bukedi - Mt. Elgon [1909]. 101 x 78 mm. Showing Bukedi huts on the wooded slopes of Mt. Elgon.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, slight fading..

1909

Bukedi Hut [1909]. 112 x 95 mm. Showing a Bukedi man standing in front of a circular hut, its roof composed of layered tiers of grass.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1909

Bagishu Camp [1909]. 103 x 79 mm. Showing Bagishu men carrying loads of grass into a village in the Bugishu country.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1909

[Dog]. 70 x 81 mm. Showing a small dog standing in front of a thatched house in an unidentified village. This is possibly the animal given to Bell by Mrs. Wilson, the wife of the Deputy Commissioner who gave Bell 'a sort of Irish terrier, and a nice little creature' (Bell 1908, July 20).
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Panorama of Entebbe. 742 x 114 mm. Five prints joined. A view from the hillside behind the town looking towards Lake Victoria, with the Kampala Road leading off northwards at the left of the panorama and Government House at the extreme right.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some tears at joins..

Mubale [i.e Mbale, 1909]. 79 x 88 mm. Showing Bell and his ADC Captain Burton standing beneath an arch of welcome in Mbale, which he visited on his 1909 tour: 'Mbale, the headquarters of the Elgon district, is situated on the plain at the foot of the mountain ... Mbale is rapidly developing a large trade. Situated in the midst of a densely populated district it is the sole source of supply of European goods. Caravans proceeding to Karamojo all fit out at Mbale ... The whole of the trade is in the hands of Indians, Baluchis, and Swahilis. The Bazaar, which was handsomely decorated on the occasion of my visit, comprises some 18 or 20 stores ...' (Bell 1909).
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1909

The Guard. Government House. 90 x 72 mm. Showing the guardhouse, a brick building in Indian style, with two Sikh soldiers on parade in front of it.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Bagishu granaries [1909]. 110 x 90 mm. Showing two Bagishu granaries, circular mud huts raised off the ground on wooden platforms and with roughly thatched roofs.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

1909

Bukeddi bachelor's hut [1909]. 110 x 90 mm. Showing a Bukeddi man seated on the wooden steps leading up to his small hut. The photograph was used as the inspiration for a double page drawing in The Illustrated London News of September 25 1909. The text, quoting Bell, explains how the young men of the village are shut in their huts at night and the ladders removed to prevent them roaming.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

1909

Bagishu. 68 x 94 mm. Three-quarter length portrait of a Bagishu man.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Bagishu [1909]. 67 x 93 mm. Showing two Bagishu women with woven baskets on their heads, with a child standing in the background.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1909

S.S. Pio X Nel suo studio. 138 x 88 mm. A postcard portrait (original print) showing Pope Pius X seated at a desk in his office. Pius X (1835-1914) was ordained in 1858 and became Pope in 1903. Bell received a private audience from Pius in May 1909, described in Bell (1946), pp 209-211.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Garde Noble. 90 x 119 mm. Showing a member of the Pope's Swiss bodyguard standing in a room in the Vatican.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

[Pope Pius X]. 219 x 282 mm. A full length seated portrait of Pope Pius X.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Chasellas. Campfer und Silvaplana. 218 x 160 mm. A view from a hillside looking down on to the village and lakes of Campfer and Silvaplana near St. Moritz. Bell spent July and August of 1909 on holiday in Switzerland with his ADC Frank Burton. Photograph by Wehrli A.G., Kilchberg.
Creator: Wehrli AG.
Good condition..

July 1909-Aug. 1909

Edward Ralph Shotton Westropp, aged 3½ months. Feb. 1909. My Godson. 82 x 114 mm. Showing an unidentified man (presumably the father) holding the baby in his arms.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Feb. 1909

Arrival at Roseau. Sept. [16] 1909. 102 x 72 mm. Showing the landing pier at Roseau, decked out in welcome for Bell's visit to Dominica, his first since his period as Administrator of the island from 1899-1905.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading..

Sep. 16 1909

[Arrival at Roseau. Sept. 16 1909]. 102 x 73 mm. Showing crowds on the beach beside the landing pier, awaiting Bell's arrival in Dominica.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some yellowing and fading..

Sep. 16 1909

Visit to Dominica. Sept. [16] 1909. 99 x 71 mm. Showing an unidentified group standing beneath a banner reading 'Dominica's gratitude to Sir H. Hesketh Bell K.C.M.G.'.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some overall fading..

Sep. 16 1909

Visit to Dominica. Sept. [16] 1909. 100 x 75 mm. Showing a crowd gathered round the decorated coach which Bell is about to board.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading..

Sep. 16 1909

Sylvania. 1909. 87 x 88 mm. A view looking down on the experimental agricultural plantation established privately by Bell in 1900 on thirty acres of Crown land about six miles from Roseau. The project is described in Bell (1946), pp 29-31, and its progress mentioned many times in Bell's letters.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1909

Sylvania. 1909. 80 x 80 mm. A view looking down on the experimental agricultural plantation established privately by Bell in 1900 on thirty acres of Crown land about six miles from Roseau. The project is described in Bell (1946), pp 29-31, and its progress mentioned many times in Bell's letters.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some fading..

1909

Carting oranges to port. 85 x 72 mm. Showing a loaded bullock cart negotiating a rough country road.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1909

'Fergie'. 87 x 74 mm. Showing an aged Dominican man standing beside a horse and cart.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1909

[British Cotton Growing Association meeting, Manchester, November 29 1909]. 208 x 158 mm. Showing Bell standing among a group of the British Cotton Growing Association in a Manchester street. The only other identified figure in the group is James Arthur Hutton (1862-1925), at the left of the photograph. Hutton, a co-founder of the Association, devoted many years work to the development of the cotton trade in the Empire and published a number of books on the subject. Bell's speech at the meeting pointed out that foreign competition was taking a disproportionate share of the market in Britain's overseas possessions.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Nov. 29 1909

[Portrait of Bell] 1910. 81 x 119 mm. A three-quarter length studio portrait by Lafayette showing Bell in uniform and wearing the C.M.G.
Creator: Lafayette.
Good condition..

1910

Ralph Westropp aged 1 year 9 months taken in Sept. 1910. 118 x 79 mm. Showing the young child playing with a tennis racquet in a garden.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Sep. 1910

100

The Devil's Cataract [Victoria Falls]. 132 x 89 mm. A photogravure postcard of a section of the falls. '31.XII.1909' is written in ink on the print, with a (largely illegible) message on the reverse. The card is addressed to Bell in London and has been forwarded to Government House in Northern Nigeria.
Creator: Clark, Percy M, fl 1920-1929, photographer.
Good condition..

31 Dec. 1909

101

Steam yacht 'Corona'. 105 x 76 mm. Showing the paddle-steamer Corona lying offshore, possibly at Lagos.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

102

Sir W. Egerton's yacht 'Joy'. 103 x 77 mm. Showing Sir Walter Egerton's yacht 'Joy', moored offshore, probably at Lagos. Sir Walter Egerton was Governor of Southern Nigeria from 1906-1912.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1906–1912

103

A typical village on the Niger. 104 x 76 mm. A view from the river showing a small settlement of thatched huts on the bank.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

104

State canoe of the Kuta of Mureji. 103 x 76 mm. Showing the canoe being paddled along the Niger. Mureji, in the Northern Province of West Central Nigeria, lies on the Niger opposite Pategi and about 40 miles NW of Baro.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

105

Baro. 1910. 115 x 77 mm. A view from the Niger showing a crowd awaiting Bell's arrival. With the railway terminus in the background.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading..

1910

106

Baro. 1910. 204 x 152 mm. A view from a hillside looking down on the railway workshops and terminus at Baro. Work was started on the Baro-Kano line in 1907 and the track, running NE for 350 miles, completed in 1911.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1910

107

Lokoja. Confluence of Niger and Benue [i.e. Bénoué]. 205 x 147 mm. A view looking down over the town from a hillside, with the African town in the foreground, European bungalows and other buildings beyond, and the confluence of the Niger and the Benue in the background. Lokoja was the site of the first British Consulate (1859) in Nigeria.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

108

Lokoja, native town. 1910. 206 x 155 mm. A view looking down over the town from a hillside, with the African village prominent, and other European buildings beyond.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1910

109

The dredger 'Quorra'. 202 x 140 mm. Showing the dredger Quorra at work, with a pipeline supported on pontoons running from the boat to the riverbank. Bell travelled on the Quorra during his trip up the Benue in 1910: 'At Barijuko I found awaiting me the Quorra, which is to take us up the Benue. She is really a dredger, and was brought out last year to deepen the Niger at certain places. She cost the trifle of £40,000 and has, so far, done little or nothing in the way of dredging. I do not exactly know what is wrong with her, but something always seems to prevent her doing the work for which she is intended. The river is now at its full height, and all dredging is suspended for some months, so the Quorra is being used, now and then, as a passenger ship. She has excellent cabin accommodation, with electric light, fans, etc., and my room is so comfortable that I shall be quite sorry to go ashore again. I must say, though, that it goes against my grain to use a ship that costs a matter of £20 a day in fuel alone. However, as it is the British taxpayer who pays, it doesn't matter very much.' (Bell 1910, September 4).
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1910

110

[Lokoja]. 205 x 151 mm. A view showing the town, with the confluence of the Niger and the Benue in the background.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading..

1910

111

View from the top of Mt. Patti. 206 x 148 mm. A view looking down on Lokoja.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1910

112

Reception of Chiefs at Lokoja. Sept. 1910. 198 x 148 mm. Showing Bell walking away from a corrugated iron building decorated with flags. Bell's visit is briefly described in his letters of September 1910, although the reception is not mentioned.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition but image slightly blurred through movement..

Sep. 1910

113

Reception of Chiefs at Lokoja. Sept. 1910. 196 x 127 mm. Showing a corrugated iron building decorated with flags with chiefs seated around the outside, a guard of honour stationed around the building and spectators in the foreground.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Sep. 1910

114

'Corona'. 140 x 83 mm. Showing the paddle boat Corona under steam.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

115

Hausa Chief. 140 x 83 mm. Showing a Hausa chief on horseback surrounded by retainers.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

116

Women saluting. 141 x 84 mm. Showing two Hausa women bowing to one another.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

117

[Duchess D'Aosta and elephant]. 80 x 55 mm. A postcard view (original print) showing the Duchess D'Aosta posed beside a recently killed elephant. The inscription, in her hand, reads 'Chikutue, North Rhodesia. 19.iv.1910. H.F. [Hélène de France]. Mon 3me eléphant - aucun n'était apprivoisi ni même attaché par la patte.' [My third elephant - none of them tamed or even tethered.].
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading..

Apr. 4 1910

118

Types of Hausa girls. 140 x 83 mm. Showing a group of Hausa girls holding waterpots.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

119

Roadside market. 140 x 84 mm. Showing a group of men and boys seated by the roadside, with baskets of produce on the ground in front of them.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

120

Porters carrying loads. 140 x 83 mm. Showing a long line of porters, their loads on their heads, marching along a track through light scrubland.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

121

Children in the Freed Slaves Home. Rumaisha. 100 x 76 mm. Showing a group of young children posed for the photographer: 'Next day we stopped at a place called Rumaisha, where the Sudan United Mission have a station. Last year the Government handed over to them all the little slave-children who had, from time to time, been rescued. Although we do everything possible to stamp out the slave trade, there is still a good deal of it going on in a small way ... The kids seem to be wonderfully well cared for, and are as fat as butter. They are of all ages up to 16, and the bigger ones are made to work, either in the fields, or at various trades. There is an extraordinary mixture of them, and many come from the wildest and most remote parts of the country.' (Bell 1910, October 3).
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1910

122

Hausa drummer boy. 83 x 140 mm. Showing a Hausa youth beating a large drum.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

123

Hausa minstrel. 83 x 140 mm. Showing a Hausa musician playing a guitar-like instrument.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

124

District Chief, N. Nigeria. 141 x 83 mm. Showing a Hausa chief and other figures seated on horseback.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

125

Hausa lady with infant. 83 x 140 mm. Showing a Hausa woman with a baby on her back.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

126

Bauchi Pagan. 84 x 141 mm. Showing a Bauchi man of NE central Nigeria drawing a bow.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

127

Hausa children. 140 x 83 mm. Showing three young Hausa children posed for the camera.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

128

Street barber. 143 x 83 mm. Showing a man having his head shaved by a barber in the street.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

129

Construction of the Baro-Kano Ry. 1911. 140 x 83 mm. Showing gangs of African labourers excavating the path of the railway.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1911

130

[Hausa horseman, Kano]. 99 x 75 mm. Showing a massed group of Hausa horsemen galloping towards the photographer. The photograph was taken during Bell's extensive tour of Zaria and Kano in early 1910.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, some overall fading..

1910

131

Zaria, 1912. 84 x 84 mm. Showing Bell's entourage riding along a road in Zaria, with a uniformed standard bearer leading the group.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1912

132

'Pearl'. 83 x 82 mm. Showing Bell riding his horse Pearl.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1912

133

Yola horsemen. Emir's bodyguard. 99 x 76 mm. Showing a group of Yola horsemen, their mounts dressed in brightly coloured robes.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

134

My first buffalo of this season - [?] Henmann Camp, Guapo Nyiro B.E.A. [British East Africa i.e. Kenya] 1910. 78 x 73 mm. A postcard view (original print) showing the Duchess d'Aosta kneeling beside a dead buffalo.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some overall fading and yellowing..

1910

135

In the harem of the Emir of Bida. A few of his wives and children. 100 x 76 mm. Showing the Emir of Bida surrounded by a large group of women and children. The photograph was taken during a tour of the Southern Provinces made by Bell in May 1910 and which is described in the printed report of the journey into the scrapbook beneath the photograph.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

May 1910

136

My Mounted Infantry escort. Kano. 126 x 83 mm. Showing Bell's escort lined up on a large open space.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, some overall fading and yellowing..

Feb. 1910-Mar. 1910

137

On the way to Naraguta tin fields. 103 x 77 mm. Showing Bell's motor car stuck in the mud at the side of the road to Naraguta, a tin mining centre on the Bauchi Plateau four miles north of Jos. Bell visited Naraguta at the beginning of 1911 and the tour is described in Bell (1911), January 2.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Jan. 1911

138

Address to Chiefs, Kano. 125 x 83 mm. Showing Bell addressing a seated group of Chiefs at Kano. The photograph is undated but was probably taken during Bell's visit to Kano in February/March 1910. In Bell (1910), March 3, he describes his reception by a 'Guard of Honour of a half-company of the Mounted Infantry' and the Durbar held in which 'the Emirs of Kano, Katsena, and other minor ones ... all came up, and sat on the ground on carpets, in a semi-circle, around me and my officers, and I made a speech to them'.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, slight overall fading..

Feb. 1910-Mar. 1910

139

On the way to Naraguta. Feb. 1911. 135 x 79 mm. Showing two motor cars on the Naraguta road, one being pulled by a group of Africans with a rope. Although dated February it appears likely that the photograph was taken in the previous month.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Jan. 1911-Feb. 1911

140

Presents from Emir of Sokoto. 105 x 72 mm. Showing a herd of cattle presented to Bell by the Emir of Sokoto. Precise date unknown.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

141

At Baro. Aug. 1911. 75 x 62 mm. Showing European officials walking along a roadway decorated with flags and an archway bearing the legend 'B.K.R. [Baro-Kano Railway] Welcome'. Bell's brief visit to Baro on this occasion is described in Bell (1911), August 26.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Aug. 1911

142

Exhibition at Katsena [Katsina] 1910. 165 x 121 mm. Showing Africans gathered around stalls in a large open square (probably the market place) in Katsina (90 miles NW of Kano). No mention of this exhibition has been found in Bell (1910).
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

1910

143

Horse and trappings presented by Emir of Katsena [Katsina]. 164 x 121 mm. Showing an African holding the bridle of a horse with an ornately decorated saddle.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

144

On the road to Naraguta. 1911. 136 x 79 mm. Showing a motor car halted on the road to Naraguta.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading..

Jan. 1911

145

On the way back from Naraguta. Feb. 1911. 136 x 79 mm. Showing a band of Africans carrying a sedan chair along a bush track.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Feb. 1911

146

Baro. Feb. 1911. 103 x 77 mm. Showing the steamer Sarota moored at Baro, with an arch of welcome bearing the legend 'B.K.R. [Baro-Kano Railway] The staff wish Your Excellency a healthy and pleasant leave'.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Feb. 1911

147

Little 'Jimmie'. 53 x 85 mm. Showing Bell holding a small monkey.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

148

Village on Niger. 86 x 71 mm. Showing a settlement of huts on the bank of the Niger.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

149

Hausa children. 53 x 85 mm. Showing two young Hausa children posing for the photographer.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

150

Bodyguard of the Emir of Zaria, 1912. 101 x 74 mm. Showing a large troop of the Emir's bodyguard, on horseback and wearing armour.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

1912

151

At Zaria, Xmas 1911. 101 x 74 mm. Showing a group of Europeans posed on the steps leading up to the verandah of a house at Zaria. The only identified figures are Bell and his A.D.C. Frank Burton.
Creator: Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Central Office of Information.
Good condition..

Dec. 1911

152

Jebba. Feb. 1912. 102 x 75 mm. Showing steamers moored at the bank of the Niger at Jebba.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Feb. 1912

153

Train-ferry across Niger. Feb. 1912. 103 x 75 mm. A view looking on to the ferry from the shore. Until the completion of the Jebba bridge in 1916 trains were transported across the Niger by ferry.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

Feb. 1912

154

Bodyguard of the Emir of Yosa. 101 x 82 mm. An indistinct print showing a group of the Emir's bodyguard.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading and yellowing..

155

[Sir Henry Hesketh Bell]. 283 x 205 mm. A full length portrait of Bell, dressed in a civilian suit and wearing a pith helmet, standing beside a railway locomotive. A photograph probably taken at Zungeru.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight yellowing..

Feb. 1911

156

Departure from Zungeru. Feb. 1911. 193 x 132 mm. Showing Bell and other officials walking past a guard of honour on the platform of Zungeru Station on his departure on leave.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

Feb. 1911

157

Departure from Zungeru. Feb. 1911. 192 x 131 mm. Showing Bell (now dressed in civilian clothes) talking to a group of officials on Zungeru Station, with a locomotive at the left and a guard of honour in the background..
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition, apart from one torn patch in emulsion..

Feb. 1911

158

Government House, Lagos. 97 x 72 mm. A view from the garden showing the front façade of Government House.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition..

159

The Emir of Kano. 103 x 60 mm. Showing the Emir standing in the centre of a group of retainers and servants in front of a decorated mud wall.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

160

Emir of Zaria. 59 x 103 mm. A three-quarter length portrait of the Emir standing in front of a decorated mud wall.
Creator: Unknown.
Good condition..

161

My office at Zungeru. 1911. 100 x 74 mm. Showing Bell seated at work at a desk in his office.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some fading and yellowing..

1911

162

Old Residency at Kano. 1911. 101 x 75 mm. Showing the two storey mud building of the Kano Residency.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some fading and yellowing..

1911

163

Lounge. Govt. House, Zaria. 100 x 75 mm. A view looking across the lounge towards the windows framed by arches.
Creator: Unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading and yellowing..

164

Baro. 100 x 75 mm. A view from the Niger showing a crowd awaiting Bell's arrival. With the railway terminus in the background.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, some fading..

1910

165

Chiefs saluting. 100 x 75 mm. Showing a group of Hausa Chiefs charging on horseback towards the photographer. The duplicate of this photograph identifies the location as Kano.
Creator: Unknown.
Fair condition, slight fading..