| Title |
Photographs of Zanzibar by James Augustus Grant, 1860 |
| Reference |
GBR/0115/Y3047C |
| Creator |
Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892 |
| Covering Dates |
17 Aug. 1860–25 Sep. 1860 |
| Extent and Medium |
9 images in 1 file |
| Repository |
Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library |
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| Content and context |
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J.A. Grant was on the island of Zanzibar with J.H. Speke before their expedition to seek the source of the Nile.
A collection of loose prints copied from stereoscopic views.
Presented by Sir John Gray.
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Access and Use
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Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Photographs of Zanzibar by James Augustus Grant, 1860, Y3047C |
| Further information |
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Other material relating to Grant is held at RCS.MSS.147.
Indexed
This collection level description was entered by KS using information from the original typescript catalogue.
This collection is available on microfiche: Africa, fiche numbers 128.
The original prints are retained by the Royal Geographical Society.
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| Index Terms |
| Africa |
| Tanzania |
| Grant, James Augustus (1827-1892) |
| RCS/Y3047C contains: |
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Slave market place, Zanzibar. 102 x 47 mm (both sections of stereo print). A view looking across the open market place towards dilapidated building, with slaves seated in the right foreground. Grant's note beneath the print reads: 'Slave market-place, Zanzibar - very difficult to take - slaves and arabs keep running away leaving only a line of women slaves whose legs and a face or two may be observed - the women's entire dress is a blue cotton sheet or cloth tied tight under arms and extending as far as the knee - their heads are cropped as short as scissors can crop them - very often they have for ornament a hole through the upper lip - at the market they come out very clean. Houses are blocks of coralline partly plastered - an indistinct wily arab squats to the right eyeing the women'.
Good condition.. |
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Zanzibar Harbour from door of British Consulate. 104 x 47 mm (both sections of stereo print). A view looking along the Zanzibar waterfront with dhows moored just off shore.
Good condition.. |
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Corporal Adam Mithalder, of the Cape Mounted Rifles. 167 x 78 mm (both sections of stereo print). A half length portrait of Mithalder taken in the open air. Grant's note beneath the print reads: 'Corporal Adam Nithalder [sic] of the Cape Mounted Rifles commanding detachment of 9 men on Capt. Speke's East African Expon. Been all through the Caffre War - medal on -, browned complexion -, fine straw hat -, green jacket.'.
Good condition.. |
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Wanyamweris. 105 x 50 mm (both sections of stereo print). Showing a group of slaves from the Ruwenzori Mountains (Mountains of the Moon). Grant's note beneath the print reads: ''Wanyamweris' or natives from the Country of the Moon - heads shaved except a moon shaped and very short patch on top of the head - the centre one only wears a headdress (a ring of standing out zebra mane) very muscular, tall, fine men - a throatlet of 3 cornered or moon shaped ivory is suspended by thread round neck - no coats - merely a waistcloth to knees.'.
Good condition.. |
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British Consulate, beach and native shipping of Zanzibar. 137 x 64 mm (both sections of stereo print). Showing the old British Consulate and the waterfront at Zanzibar, with dhows anchored in the harbour beyond.
Good condition.. |
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Col the Baron Van der Decken. 87 x 84 mm (one section of stereo print). A half length portrait of BaronCarl Claus Von der Decken (1833-1865), a bearded figure wearing a similar hat to Corporal Mithalder in print Y3047C/3. Grant's note beneath the print reads: 'Col. The Baron Van [sic] der Decken of the Hanoverian Army now on a journey to explore the Great Lake of Nyassa.'. Von der Decken, who was born in 1833, made three journeys into the interior of east Africa in 1860-62. In 1865 he undertook an expedition into Somali territory during which he was killed.
Good condition.. |
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Zanzibar. 69 x 67 mm (one section of stereo print). View looking over the rooftops of Zanzibar from the old British Consulate. Grant's note beneath the print reads: 'Zanzibar, - looking on town from top of Consul's House - American merchants shipping look-out perched in top of house - Thatch made of cocoa nut leaf - mason work of corraline-plastered over in the better style of houses'.
Good condition.. |
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Luddah Damjee. 94 x 85 mm (one section of stereo print). Showing Luddah Damjee seated on a stone step in front of a carved Zanzibar door. Damjee (d. 1871), a Bhuttia Hindu from Cutch, was the Zanzibar Customs Master. Beneath the print Grant refers to him as 'The Custom Master of Zanzibar the Rothschild of Eastern Africa'.
Good condition.. |
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Moobarik Bombay. 105 x 47 mm (both sections of stereo print). Beneath the print, the caption continues ' who has accompanied Capt. Speke during 2 expeditions in Central Africa'. A Yao born in about 1820, he was seized as a slave when a child, sold at Kilwa, taken to India by his master (hence his name Bombay) and released on his death. He was serving in the Sultan of Zanzibar's Baluchi guard garrisoning Chokwe when in February 1856 he was recruited for Burton and Speke's expedition to discover the source of the Nile. He served until 1859, was recruited again by Speke in 1860, became Caravan Leader and reached Egypt with the survivors in 1863. Stanley engaged him in his search for Livingstone in 1871 and he accompanied Cameron across Africa 1873-76. He was given a Royal Geographic Society Pension in 1876 and died in Zanzibar on October 1885.
Good condition.. |
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