Photography - The British Empire, Colonial Africa - three ph...

Hammer

£260

Photography - The British Empire, Colonial Africa - three photograph albums containing b/w photographs taken by William Willows Baxter Kitching (1887-1958), during his time as a surveyor for the British Colonial Service from 1914-1933, volume I illustrating Kenya and its capital Nairobi's imperial architecture, the people of the Kikuyu tribe and their dance (the Ingoma), court of justice and warriors armed with spears and shields, further shots of Kitching on leave at Llansteffan Castle, Wales; volume II showing occupied German East Africa in 1916, including scenes of World War One - a Mbgathi horse camp, a mud-stranded armoured car, a train that had detonated a German mine, Red Cross transport and a hospital train, other more leisurely images: big game hunting, other African views of Mobasa, Zanzibar, Beira, Laurenco Marques, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, and a large picture of a young lion taken by Cherry Kearton (1871-1940); volume III with further views of Nairobi, the 1919 Mombasa Peace Celebrations, more big game shoots and hunting, 1919 leave home via Naples, Marseille and Norway!, the return in 1921 via Madeira, 1924 leave then via Genoa, Port Said, Aden, Lugano and Venice, Crossing the Line in 1927 with his new bride Ethel (née Radford Cooper of Derby), their marital home Mwanza and a safari in a Chevrolet lorry, 1930 leave: Pisa, Florene, Lugano and Venice, its art and architecture, then back to Africa in 1932, oblong albums, mixed bindings and sizes, [3]