Photographs and postcards belonging to Reginald Samuel Wheatley

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1940
  • Dates of Creation
    • [ca. 1910]-1918
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 80 postcards, 9 photographs, 1 photograph album

Scope and Content

Photographs and postcards of Nigeria, British East Africa and German West Africa, relating to his experiences in the Nigerian Marine Service.

Administrative / Biographical History

Reginald Samuel Wheatley served in the Nigerian Marine Service and in the Cameroons and Zanzibar, 1911-1952.

Access Information

Bodleian reader's ticket required.

Note

Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Other Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room and a handlist is also available for this collection.

Listed as no. 836 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Conditions Governing Use

No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.

Custodial History

Donated to the Oxford Development Records Project in 1965.