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Box 14

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Part 1, 1923

 Item — Box: 14, VHS videocassette: 1
Identifier: 2933069RX140
Scope and Contents

Contents: street scenes in Lagos; the Commission's compound in Yaba; the opening of the legislative council of Nigeria; fumigating after yellow fever in Lagos; collecting mosquito larvae in Lagos; down the Ogun River in Nigeria; scenes from Oshogbo at end of Ramadan; from Oshogbo to Ogbomosho; road to Ibadan; scenes from Ibadan; a trip to Iwopin in Nigeria; trooping the colors in Lagos; Beiram Festival of the Mohammedans in Lagos.

Dates: 1923
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections / Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers / Series 5: Photographs and Motion Pictures / <title linktype="simple">Scenes in West Africa: West African Yellow Fever Commission</title> [motion picture]

Part 2, 1923

 Item — Box: 14, VHS videocassette: 2
Identifier: 2933069RX141
Scope and Contents

Contents: school on a Lagos street; natives and their homes in Lagos; an official's home in Ikoyi; a tennis party at the Medical Research Institute; local scenes; river scenes; collecting mosquito larvae.

Dates: 1923
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections / Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers / Series 5: Photographs and Motion Pictures / <title linktype="simple">Scenes in West Africa: West African Yellow Fever Commission</title> [motion picture]

Part 3, 1923

 Item — Box: 14, VHS videocassette: 3
Identifier: 2933069RX142
Scope and Contents

Contents: collecting mosquito larvae; scenes from Oshogbo at end of Ramadan; a visit to Ilesha; collecting cotton; Baptist Hospital African Mission; Oyo (the Yorba capital); road to Ibadan; scenes in Ibadan (thatched mud huts; goat herding; market place; inside a hospital).

Dates: 1923
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections / Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers / Series 5: Photographs and Motion Pictures / <title linktype="simple">Scenes in West Africa: West African Yellow Fever Commission</title> [motion picture]

Part 4, 1923

 Item — Box: 14, VHS videocassette: 4
Identifier: 2933069RX143
Scope and Contents

Contents: trip to Iwopin in Nigeria; trooping the colors in Lagos; Beiram festival of the Mohammedans in Lagos.

Dates: 1923
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections / Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers / Series 5: Photographs and Motion Pictures / <title linktype="simple">Scenes in West Africa: West African Yellow Fever Commission</title> [motion picture]