Janus: South and East Africa, 1880s

RCS/Y305D contains:
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91	[Country scene, Zanzibar]
92	[Plantation scene, ?Zanzibar]
93	[Anglican Cathedral, Zanzibar]
94	[Zanzibar waterfront]
95	[Zanzibar waterfront]
96	[At the new Deutsch-ostafrikanischen Gesellschaft customs shed in Bagamoyo after the arrival of an ivory caravan, 1890]
97	[Country scene, ?German East Africa]
98	[Seyyid Hamed bin Thuwaini]
99	[Seyyid Ali bin Said]
100	[Tipu Tib]
101	[Military parade outside the Beit-el-Ajeib, Zanzibar]
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South and East Africa, 1880s

Title	[At the new Deutsch-ostafrikanischen Gesellschaft customs shed in Bagamoyo after the arrival of an ivory caravan, 1890]
Reference	Y305D/96
Creator	Unknown
Covering Dates	1890
Extent and Medium	Good condition, apart from slight fading along one edge.

Content and context

194 x 145 mm. Showing a group of German D.O.G. employees, Arabs and Indians (a parsee among them) standing in front of the customs shed with large piles of elephant tusks, graded according to size, lying on the ground around them. The caption is taken from Meinecke (1899) where the photograph is reproduced as a woodcut with the following explanation (roughly translated):'Many millions of marks of ivory produce was shipped to Zanzibar through the old customs port at Bagamoyo. The caravans bring in large loads worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. Immediately after arrival the ivory must be brought to the customs post for weighing and entering in the index so that it may be released for free trade.' (Meinecke, 1899, p. 54).

Further information

Meinecke, G. ed. (?1899) 'Die Deutschen Kolonien in Wort und Bild', Leipsig.

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