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European Men and African Man at a Royal Niger Company Encampment

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A photograph of seven European men and one African man in uniform outside canvas tents.
Group portrait at a Royal Niger Company encampment, circa 1890:1910. Photographed by William Henry Crosse.

A photograph depicting a group of eight men at a temporary encampment. Seven light-skinned men are positioned standing and seated, wearing utilitarian warm-weather attire including pith helmets, boater hats, and white tunics. A dark-skinned man in a light-colored jacket and structured cap stands at attention on the left. The setting includes a large A-frame canvas tent, a thatched structure, and woven perimeter fences against a backdrop of a sloping, vegetated hill. The image is part of the Crosse Collection, associated with the Royal Niger Company between 1886 and 1895.

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Onyeka Nwokike

May 04, 2026

This image is part of a lantern slide series from the MAA Cambridge Photograph Record that documents scenes from Cameroon and the Niger Delta. Several photographs from this specific collection were later utilized in the 1900 publication Nigeria: Our Latest Protectorate by Charles Henry Robinson.

Onyeka Nwokike

May 04, 2026

The photographer, Dr. William Henry Crosse, was a British explorer and medical officer who authored Notes on the Malarial Fevers Met with on the River Niger, West Africa in 1892. His contributions to the study of West African fauna led to the naming of the beaked snake Letheobia crossii in his honor. His obituary was written by Sir George Taubman Goldie, the founder of the Royal Niger Company, as documented in the Obituary of William Henry Crosse.

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