Janus: Smyly Sierra Leone and Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Collection

RCS contains:
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Y30446H	General photographs of Sierra Leone, circa 1965
Y30446I	Principals of Fourah Bay College
Y30446J	Inauguration of President Momoh of Sierra Leone 1986
Y30446K	Sierra Leone: Wallace album
Y30446L	Smyly Sierra Leone Collection, 1895-1911
Y30446M	Smyly Sierra Leone and Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Collection
Y30447A	Views of Bathhurst, The Gambia
Y30447B	Views in The Gambia. 1945-51
Y30447D	Spicer Simson photographs of the Gambia River Survey 1911-1912
Y30448A	Panorama of Accra, circa 1910
Y30448B	Accra Post Office. circa 1915
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Smyly Sierra Leone and Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Collection

Title	Smyly Sierra Leone and Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Collection
Reference	GBR/0115/Y30446M
Creator	Smyly, Sir, Philip Crampton, 1866-1953, Knight and colonial administrator
Covering Dates	circa 1910-circa 1929
Extent and Medium	59 images; Good condition.
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

A collection including a black album, containing 29 photographs and with eight blank sides, and loose prints and negatives, relating to the career of Sir Crampton Smyly. There are typed captions which have been used as the basis of catalogue entries. As well as photographs of the visit to Sierra Leone of the Duke of Connaught on 15 December 1910, there are numerous photographs of events of 1929, the year in which Sir Crampton Smyly retired.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Smyly Sierra Leone and Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Collection, Y30446M

Further information

For other collections of Smyly see Y30446L and Y30448L. The early photographs, of the visit to Sierra Leone of the Duke of Connaught, are duplicates of the photographs in the Carmichael Smith Collection at Y30446C. See also Y30446L/59-60.

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by SG using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Index Terms

Africa

Ghana

Sierra Leone

Smyly, Sir Philip Crampton (1866-1953) Knight and colonial administrator

RCS/Y30446M contains:

1-29

Smyly album. An album of photographs of Sierra Leone and Ghana.
29 images in 1 album.

circa 1910-circa 1929