IDNO

N.37048.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Gardener in the Seychelles, Mahe." [typed text, circa 1935]

Portrait of an older man posing holding a zepi ble (an old type of broom) in probably a garden as the man is annotated as being a gardener. The man is wearing a cap, a cotton smock over breeches and is bare-footed. [JD 16/01/2026]

Place

E Africa; Indian Ocean; Seychelles; Mahé

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Playfair, Lambert (Colonel)

Collector / Expedition

Playfair, Lambert (Colonel)

Date

circa 1865

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Glass Negative

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The negative was previously stored in an envelope now numbered C114/32/ which was in a wooden box now marked C114/. The envelope (C114/32/) is re-housed in Neg. Env. Box 5. which is stored in Storage Box A in the Photo Archive room.

Related Image: Same image in the Sue Hopson Seychelles collection with the caption: "An old man with zepi ble (an old type of broom)."
The following information is provided for the album: "A very fine collection of 25 photographs taken by Colonel Lambert Playfair, and possibly others, during the visit to the Seychelles by Governor Sir Henry Barkly and his entourage, c. 1865, albumen prints mounted on the rectos of 7 album leaves, the largest 4 photographs 17 x 21.5 cm, the others mostly carte-de-visite sizes but with four 9.5 x 8 cm and similar, the largest four mounted singly (4), the others arranged in threes (2), including one sheet with a fourth photograph (16.5 x 12 cm) to verso, one sheet with six and one with seven photos, all with pen and ink with watercolour and gilt border decorations with neat captions, most images with strong tonal range, sheet sizes 28.5 x 23 cm, preserved in a bespoke modern blue half calf gilt book box." [Source: https://www.dominicwinter.co.uk/Auction/Lot/lot-42---seychelles-a-very-fine-collection-of-25-photographs-taken-by-colonel-lambert-playfair-and-others/?lot=418230&so=4&st=seychelles&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=48&pn=1&g=1, JD 16/01/2026]