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Start Over Donor William Russell Bascom Maker or artist unknown
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7120, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "The entrance to the Research Institute at Tafo, Gold Coast, British West Africa, where scientists are fighting to save cocoa from swollen-soot and Sahlbergella.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7127, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "Miss Agnes Nikue, technical assistant to the entomologist whose duty it is to preserve and file all specimen leaves and plants. She is the onl woman in West Africa doing this work.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7800, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government taking the salute at the March Past of Units of the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force after the Victory in Europe Thanksgiving Service held on the Lagos Race Course.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7123, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "This house is covered with wire gauze to keep insects from flying in. These insectaries, as they are called, are used for many experiments, and here Mr. A. H. Strickland, Entomologist, is seen transferring insects from diseased to healthy plants.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7134, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "The Manager of the Pengal Camp Mine point to where the Tin concentrate or wash is seperated from the lighter coloured overburden above. From this examination he will decide whether or not the Tin concentrate containing the Columbite is worth working.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7767, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "Typical modern house built by well to do Africans, traders and high officials at Lagos, Nigeria.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7345, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "The band of a West African Pioneer Company played for the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, West Africa, Lieut-General M. Brocas Burrows, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., during his recent tour of West African troops in the Middle East. In this picture the General is talking to the Bandmaster.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7795, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "(Right) Bishop S. C. Phillips of the Anglican Church, Lagos, assisting the Right Rev. L. G. Vining, Bishop of Lagos, at the Victory in Europe Thanksgiving Service held on the Lagos Race Course.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7063, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "At the Biltong Factory, Kano City, Kano Province, Nigeria, an employee carrying a 75 lb. sack of biltong, the dried meat of one bullock, and is a literally a 'Beast in a Bag'.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-7823, described as Black and white photograph with attached caption: "Crowding on deck to catch their first glimpse of West Africa since they left Nigeria over three years ago, these smiling men of the Royal West African Frontier Force had just returned from India. A great crowd was on the quayside to welcome them.

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