Janus: Zanzibar (Chandler Collection)

RCS/Y3047B contains:
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76	[Opening of new lighthouse at Chumbe, 1926. View from the sea]
77	Chumvi Island
78	The arrival of the Sultan and party
79	[Opening of new lighthouse on Chumbe Island, 1926. Sultan and officials]
80	[Opening of new lighthouse on Chumbe Island 1926. Sultan's retinue]
81	[Opening of new lighthouse on Chumbe Island, 1926. Dr Spurrier in front of the lighthouse]
82	[Opening of new lighthouse on Chumbe Island, 1926. Climbing a coconut tree]
83	Prince of Wales at Dar [es Salaam] Golf Club
84	[Prince of Wales at Dar es Salaam]
85	[Unveiling of the Dar es Salaam war memorial]
86	[Unveiling of the Dar es Salaam war memorial]
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Zanzibar (Chandler Collection)

Title	[Opening of new lighthouse on Chumbe Island, 1926. Dr Spurrier in front of the lighthouse]
Reference	Y3047B/81
Covering Dates	1926

Content and context

58 x 102 mm. A view showing Dr Alfred Henry Spurrier (1862-1936) standing in front of the new lighthouse. The reverse of the photograph is annotated: 'Old Dr Spurrier the oldest white man in Z. One of the sports who turned out at 2pm to go to the ceremony'. Spurrier was for many years the Government Health Officer in Zanzibar and was also for a period the editor of the 'Zanzibar Gazette'.

Further information

For details of Spurrier's career see: Crofton, Richard Hayes (1953), Zanzibar Affairs 1914-1933, London: Francis Edwards.

For other photographs related to the opening of the lighthouse see Y3047B/78-80 and 82.

Indexed

Index Terms

Africa

Pwani

Tanzania

Spurrier, Alfred Henry (1862-1936) Government Health Officer in Zanzibar

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