Janus: An album of early photographs of Uganda

RCS contains:
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Y30448M	No. 218 Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Bomber Squadron
Y30448N	Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Castles
Y30448O-R	Peter Canham albums of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]
Y30448S	J.E.K. Aggrey and A.G. Fraser
Y30448T	Volta River project: Tema Harbour, Preliminary Works
Y30448U	An album of early photographs of Uganda
Y30448V	George Cansdale's collection on the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] 1938-1948
Y30448W	West African Railways
Y3045A-B	Collard collection on Uganda
Y3045D	Spooner album of Uganda
Y3045E	Ugandan envoys to England
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An album of early photographs of Uganda

Title	An album of early photographs of Uganda
Reference	GBR/0115/Y30448U
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	circa 1906-circa 1912
Extent and Medium	45 images
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

J.B. Struthers was the first manager of the National Bank of India, Entebbe branch from 1906, and was also, at the time of his death, the National Bank of India's oldest European pensioner.

A collection of photographs of specialist and varying interest. Often, their provenance is uncertain, but most were probably taken by Mr. Struthers, or his associates. Some are certainly by Lobo, Entebbe, because identical stances, or different minor incident is found in reproduced photographs by this early Goan professional in Uganda in Wallis 'Handbook of Uganda', 2nd edtn, 1920. The following photographs may be of particular note: 3, 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 21, 26, 30, 31, 39, 41 and 49.

Presented to the Centre of African Studies-University of Edinburgh, by Miss Sheila Struthers, the daughter of J.B. Struthers, in June 1984, and deposited with the Edinburgh University Library before March 1988.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, An album of early photographs of Uganda, Y30448U

Further information

For mention of J.B. Struthers as oldest pensioner at N.B.I. see: Tyson, Geoffrey (1963), '100 years of banking in Asia and Africa', London: National and Grindlays Bank, p. 158.

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by WS using information from the original typescript catalogue, which includes information given by David N. McMaster, Centre of African Studies-University of Edinburgh in a letter dated 6th April 1988.

Three images from this collection can be viewed here:

Y30448U/5: Whale (Ju Ju) Big fetish play, Gold Coast

http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/1262/1/RCSPC-Y30448U-005.jpg

Y30448U/11: Gold Coast Chief (Amoah) and his people

http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/1263/1/RCSPC-Y30448U-011.jpg

Y30448U/40: [Two-wheeled cart]

http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/1264/1/RCSPC-Y30448U-040.jpg

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http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photo_project/gallery1.html

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