Tanganyika Collection

Sir Donald Cameron, Governor of Tanganyika
Sir Donald Charles Cameron (1872-1948), Governor of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), seen here at Kigoma on 8 September 1928. He served as Governor from 1925 to 1931

Poster, Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika Territory, Africa. circa 1940

Main Avenue, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa Date: circa 1930s

Railway Hotel, Iringa - Tanzania, East Africa. Date: 1930s

The Harbour Front - Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa
The Harbour Front - Dar-es-Salaam (" Haven of Peace" ), Tanzania, East Africa - showing the Anzani front and the Cathedral. Date: circa 1910s

Tanga Harbour, Tanzania
Tanga Harbour, British East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1920s

Palace of Wonders, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Palace of Wonders (or House of Wonders, Beit-al-Ajaib), Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). It was built in 1883 for the second sultan. Date: late 1920s

Tanganyika (Tanzania) - East Africa - Group of Ikoma People - an ethnic and linguistic group based in Mara Region in northern Tanzania. Date: circa 1909

Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania - Catholic Church Date: circa 1906

Drying Sisal Fibre on a Plantation - Tanzania, East Africa Date: 1923

Bagamoyo Road - Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Telegraph poles for railway, Tanganyika, East Africa
Men holding up cast iron telegraph poles destined to run along the railway line in Tanganyika, East Africa (then part of the British Empire, now Tanzania). Date: 1922

Synodontis maculipinna, catfish
Synodontis is the most widely-distributed mochokid genus. This specimen was collected from the Rufigi River near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and arrived at the museum in 1922

Miles M. 14A Hawk Trainer 3 G-AKRV
Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer 3 G-AKRV, at White Waltham, before export to Tanganyika, (Previously Magister T9896 with the Royal Air Force)

Harbour Scene - Tanzania, East Africa. Date: 1927

Harbour view with Dhow, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa Date: circa 1903

Tanzania - Sultan Ikoma and his wives - house stockade. Date: circa 1923

Askari Monument, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa
Askari Monument at Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika (now Tanzania). It is a memorial to the Askari soldiers who fought in the British Carrier Corps during the First World War. Date: circa 1930

Moloo Brothers & Co, Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa
The general store of Moloo Brothers & Co, stamp dealers and money changers, goldsmiths, jewellers, tailors and outfitters, Acacia Avenue, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika

Moloo Brothers & Co, Main Street, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Moloo Brothers & Co, Main Street, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). Claimed to be the largest curio shop in East Africa, selling silk, ivory and other items. Date: circa 1920s

Armistice Day event, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, WW1
Armistice Day event on 11 November 1918 with native military brass band in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania), to mark the end of the First World War. Date: 1918

Treasury and Secretariat Office, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
The British Treasury and Secretariat Office in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1918

British entering Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa, WW1
British forces entering Dar-es-Salaam, formerly German East Africa, after the surrender of 4 September 1916. 1916

TRS Liemba, German ship, Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma
TRS Liemba, German passenger and cargo ferry, Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma, East Africa. Previously the Graf von Goetzen. Date: circa 1927

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Tanganyika Plateau
Black and white lantern Slide of Tanganyika Plateau - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, Britrish South Africa. Boswell Collection

Percival P54 Survey Prince, VR-TBC, of the Tanganyika Government

Native temple, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa
Native temple at Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Date: late 1920s

From the Thames to Lake Tanganyika by river, sea and land. Upper image shows natives bringing back to shore a Belgian vessel, the Netta

Mimi and Tou-tou: a Thames to Tanganyika romance. The overland journey made from the Cape to Central Africa, and the victorious battles fought on Lake Tanganyika by the British naval expedition with

Stanley / Tanganyika
Zaire expedition : he explores Lake Tanganyika Date: 1877

Chellean men of Olduvai gathered around the body of a wild pig nearly as large as a rhinoceros. Excavations at Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika uncovered two living sites

View of River Loukouga, tributary of Lake Tanganyika, Africa
View of a sailing boat on the River Loukouga (Lukuga), a tributary of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, at the time of John Hanning Spekes expedition to discover the Great Lakes of East Africa

Government Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Government Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1918

English church in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
English church in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1918

Missionary home for boys, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Missionary home for boys at Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). It was run by a British charity, the Universities Mission to Central Africa. Date: circa 1910

Mbweni Girls School, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Mbweni Girls School at Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). It was run by a British charity, the Universities Mission to Central Africa. Date: circa 1910

Kuwait dhow off Zanzibar, Tanzania
Kuwait dhow off Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1950

Christ Church Cathedral, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Christ Church Cathedral, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). It was built on the site of the old slave market. Date: circa 1910

Sea front view, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Sea front view at Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). circa 1950

Law Courts in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Law Courts in Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1908

British advance in S. E. Africa, WW1
Some of the troops under Brigadier-General Northey advancing between Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika in Southern East Africa. On the left are commanding officers of the Rhodesian volunteers, B.S.A

Tubicaulis africanus, tree fern
Common plants of the Palaeophytic. Part of a petrified trunk of the tree fern Tubicaulis africanus, approximately 14cm wide, from the Permian Period, Tanganyika, Africa

Poster advertising Tanganyika National Parks (now Tanzania), Africa. Showing a park ranger in uniform, with giraffes and bison in the background. 20th century

Cairo to the Cape, an Escorted Tour through Africa
Cover illustration for Cairo to the Cape, an Escorted Tour through Africa. A map of Europe and Africa shows the route from Cairo to the Cape and the stopping places en route -- Port Said, Luxor

Sir Henry Morton Stanley and Dr. David Livingstone Reading N
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) (on left, seated) and David Livingstone (1813-1873) (on right, seated) reading newspapers at Ujiji, Tanganyika, 1871

The Meeting of Stanley and Livingstone in Tanganyika, 1871
Engraving showing the meeting between Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) (on left, raising hat) and David Livingstone (1813-1873) (on right, raising hat) at Ujiji, Tanganyika, 10th November 1871

Dinosaur / Tanganyika 1925
A traveller in Tanganyika fancies he sees some of its earlier inhabitants

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