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Mounted photographs

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 17 / B2

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Title

Mounted photographs

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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 17 / B2

Summary

24 black and white mounted photographs captioned as follows:

(1) passion flower fruit on the Congo

(2) a road on San Thomé, through a cocoa roco

(3) fern which grows profusely on Kasai forest

(4) elephant ear plant in wet season

(5) oil bearing palm

(6) baobab tree with fruit, used as article of diet by Mohammedan

(7) cocoa nuts from Eloby Island

(8) fruit and leaf of Borassus palm

(9) palm avenue at Baringa, upper Congo

(10) palm avenue at Baringa, upper Congo. Trees of ten years growth

(11) making palm oil, Baringa, upper Congo

(12) vanilla plant and pods, Temvo Cocoa Plantation, Mayumbe country

(13) coffee drying at Bomani, Congo State Plantation, Aruwimi

(14) entrance to cocoa roça, island of Principe

(15) Angola slaves on San Thomé

(16) Decanville railway on cocoa plantation, San Thomé

(17) slaves working on light railway, island of Principe

(18) cocoa pods drying at Temvo, Mayumbe country, lower Congo

(19) section of slave quarters in rear of old slave trader's house, Catumbella, Angola

(20) the highest peak of Principe Island, cultivated almost to the summit

(21) young cocoa trees, interspersed with paw-paw trees, Kinyati, Mayumbe country

(22) young cocoa trees, Kinyati, Mayumbe country

(23) cocoa pods on tree, San Thomé

(24) cocoa drying at Dodowa, hinterland of Gold Coast

Date

1911-1912

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

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Archive of the Anti-Slavery Society

Papers of the Anti-Slavery Society (original accession)

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