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2019.32.2.74

View of the deck of the (steamship) S.S. Bakana, crowded with people and cargo.

2019.32.2.74

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Collection type
Photograph
Description
View of the deck of the (steamship) S.S. Bakana, crowded with people and cargo.
Person
Photographer Herbert Sutherland Walker
Expedition or compiler Herbert Sutherland Walker
Expedition or compiler 1897 Benin City "Punitive Expedition"
PRM source Mark Walker
Date / Period
Date of photograph: 20/03/1897 - 16/04/1897
Acquisition information
Donated: 13/09/2019
Photographic process
Print gelatin silver
Dimensions
Height x Width 72 x 95 mm, Height x Width 190 x 240 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2019.32.2.74
Research and responses

'The Protectorate force quitted Benin on the 15th inst. [March 1897], leaving four officers and 100 soldiers as garrison. Mr. Turner is the British Resident, Captain Roupell commands the troops. Colonel Hamilton, Major Landon, Captain Walker, and Lieutenant O'Shea, Special Service officers, embarked on the Bakana [of the British and Africa Steam Navigation Company], for Liverpool, on the 20th [March 1897], at Forcados.' (Source: Pitt Rivers Museum, 2019.32.2, page 76.)

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