PHOTOGRAPH, series of 31 photographs in cellophane packet marked July 1939, although photos date from 1925-27, Tanganyika, Africa, taken by Francis James Anderson
[.1] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Ford car outside shop ‘C.D. WATT’, c 1925, Africa, written on back, ‘1-my first load al-/ready to leave for Rasha rasha, packed in/a damned old Ford/Lowry?
[.2] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, car on bush track with two men, c 1925, Africa, written on back, ‘2-which soon began/to overheat and give/trouble’.
[.3] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, shack with tin roof in bush, c 1925, Africa, written on back, ‘4-The old deserted/shack on the place/was terribly overgrown/and with one wall/missing – did not look/much from the front’.
[.4] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, back view of shack, with two people c 1925, Africa, written on back,’5-and a little/bit worse from /the back’.
[.5] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, bush scene with three African men, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’6-The first job was /securing a water/ supply and a furrow/over ½ mile through/dense thickets had/to be dug’.
[.6] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, six African workers in the bush, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’7-and a dam made/at the top end to/divert the water/from a little stream/into the furrow’.
[.7] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, cattle drinking at dam with four African men overlooking, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’8-But all the three/weeks work was/worth while to secure/a young lake such/as this’.
[.8] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, African workers in a field, car in centre background, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’10-The next big/job was the build;/ing of a road 9/miles to meet the/main Mibula? Road/+ prived an exit/to the Shamba’.
[.9] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, car on road in bush with African man ‘Eddy’ on right, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’11-A special trip to/Nairobi to buy a car/+ coffee seed was made/the car and Eddy/on the way back’.
[.10] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, man squatting and woman standing behind a dead lioness, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’12-This blighter was/one that helped raid/my home + was shot/three nights later’.
[.11]PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, mule-drawn wagon with load of timber outside shack, 5 people and logs in foreground, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’13-The first waggon/load arriving was/quite an event’.
[.12] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Five African people working on preparing seed beds for planting coffee seed, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’14-then the coffee seed/beds had to be/prepared’.
[.13] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w,two African workers with coffee seeds laid out ready to plant, c 1925, Africa, written on back, ’15-and each little/seed carefully laid/on its flat side’.
[.14] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, three African workers with team of oxen chained together, c 1925, Africa, written on back, ’16-Training the oxen/was not altogether/an easy job although/at times quite exciting’.
[.15] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, group of African men sitting around on logs ready to eat?, c 1925, Africa, written on back, ’17-The nigs love/their 11 o’clock meal/of pasho’.
[.16] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, two African men with row of wooden upright poles c 1925, Africa, written on back, ’18-Building houses/out of bush timber/is not a job I relish/especially when all the/sawn timber necessary/has to be cut like –‘.
[.17] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Car with Honoria Ethel Anderson and Ethel Patricia Anderson and African man parked in front of large tree c 1925, Africa, written on back,’20-and then the/family arrived and/a 200 mile drive/to the shamba was/necessary. On the/road’.
[.18] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Ethel Patricia Anderson with a baby antelope c 1925, Africa, written on back,’21-Patsy was not/ long in collecting/a pet – the smallest/of all antelopes’.
[.19] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Ethel Patricia Anderson with baby antelope and dead lioness c 1925, Africa, written on back,’23-Patsy insisted on/comparing her/beauty with the/lions.
[.20] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Honoria Ethel Anderson and Ethel Patricia Anderson standing next to planted coffee seed beds, partially built house in background, c 1925, Africa, written on back,’24-The house pro-/gressing with the/seed beds in foreground’.
[.21] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Ethel Patricia Anderson sitting with dog on her left side and goat? On her right c 1925, Africa, written on back,’25-Not quite friends/yet’.
[.22] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Ethel Patricia Anderson wearing hat, standing in corn field? c 1925-6, Africa, written on back, ‘The other choice’.
[.23] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, car bogged in a muddy track, Honoria Ethel Anderson and Ethel Patricia Anderson looking on, c 1925-6, Africa, written on back, ’The sort of thing/that happens on our/way home from Arusha in the be-/ginning of the/ rains’.
[.24] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, hunter standing with rifle and two African men squatting beside a dead ox? c 1925-6, Africa.
[.25] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, portrait of a Masai man, c 1926 Africa, written on back,’Masai Beau’.
[.26] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, left side profile of a Masai man, c 1926 Africa, written on back, ’One of my savages’.
[.27] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, right profile of a Masai woman carrying water bottle on her back, c 1926 Africa, written on back, ’A water carrier’.
[.28] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, portrait of a Masai woman, c 1926 Africa, written on back,’Masai Belle’.
[.29] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, house/shack.
[.30] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, Ethel Patricia Anderson, laughing, long hair braided and in bows at ends, c 1927, Africa
[.31] PHOTOGRAPH, b&w, cat, written on back ‘My Tomcat Sultanie’.
[.32] ENVELOPE, cellophane
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History DepartmentCollection
History Collection
Collection Item Data
| Accession Number: | H2013.549.1-32 |
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| Accession Date: | 10 Jun 2015 |
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| Acquisition Year: | 2012 |
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| Credit: | Honoria Hassell Anderson and Patricia Anderson Wright Collection |
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