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

RCS contains:
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Y3043RR	Band of the 2nd Nigerian Regiment
Y3043S	Photographs taken in French West Africa
Y3043SS	[Oluwaseun Ogunseitan]
Y3043T	Portrait of Mary Kingsley
Y3043TT-VV	The Weston Collection: Nursing in West Africa
Y3043U-Y	Sir Walter Buchanan-Smith collection on Nigeria
Y3043WW	Hawkins collection on Nigeria
Y3043Z	Souvenir of the inauguration of the railway bridge over the South Channel of the River Niger by H.E. Sir Frederick Lugard ... January 31st 1916. At Jebba, Nigeria, West Africa
Y30446A-E	James Carmichael Smith Sierra Leone Collection
Y30446F	T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s
Y30446G	Postcard views of Sierra Leone, circa 1903
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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