IDNO

LS.49537.WCR

Description

Members of an expedition docking in boats. [GB 12/07/2000]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Niger River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Crosse, William Henry (Dr., PMO)

Collector / Expedition

Royal Niger Company, 1886 - 1895

Date

Collection Name

Crosse Collection

Source

?Robinson, Charles Henry (Rev, Canon)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

C167/ was formerly numbered 9 by T. Hoare. There are 54 lantern slides in the box.

Collection Name: The Photographer and Collection Name field were previously unprovenanced, but matching this negative to the same series of other negatives, N.74244.ACH2 to N.74249.ACH2 and N.78251.ACH2 to N.78256.ACH2, and lanternslides, LS.82424 to LS.82491, it shows that the photographs were taken by William Henry Crosse, Principal Medical Officer, Royal Niger Company, 1886 - 1895. The Photographer and Collection Name fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 13/01/2014]

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Africa; West Africa; ?Guinea", but matching the collection to Dr Crosse, suggests that the photograph was made in Nigeria. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 1/17/2014]

Source: The Source field was previously unprovenaced, but the photographs may have been donated to the MAA by Rev. Charles Henry Robinson, who published some of Crosse's photographs in the following publication. The Source field has been provisionally amended accordingly. [JD 13/01/2014]

Bibliographical Reference: Nigeria: Our Latest Protectorate,
By Charles Henry Robinson M.A, Canon Missioner of Ripon and Lecturer in Hausa in the University of Cambridge (London, Horace Marshall and Son, 1900), pp.v-vi
"I am indebted to the Rt. Hon. Sir Geo. Goldie for permission to use
several photographs taken in connection with the work of the Royal Niger Company, also to Dr. W. H. Crosse, for many years Medical Officer of the Company, for the loan of many photographs taken by himself, and to Miss C. M. Stiff, of Cheltenham, for preparing several drawings of native articles." [JD, 13/01/2014]