British Colonies
Four albums of photographs, 1910s-20s, includes views of Jamaica, (Newcastle), Malta, Egypt (Khartoum) and the Raj (Karachi). The photographs show military and associated civilian life, with earthworks, Naval vessels, and parades, alongside group photos on the beach, tourist scenes and local people. The pictures capture colonial life, with its fashions, uniforms and 'Surrey in the Tropics' transplanting of English rural life to foreign climes, as well as something of the globetrotting life British military service implied at the time. With an album relating to St Paul's Girls School and a number of loose, similar photographs and two letters from Field Marshall Montgomery and Maurice Macmillan MP.