Black and white negative of men working with poles under a palm hut in the forest
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Wattle and daub building near Ijebu Ode

35mm slide: Girls in costume lined up

Photograph of re-opening of the Horniman Museum on 26 December 1893

Black and white medium format negative of boat being drawn to shore by men pulling on ropes from land
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