Record books of Smith Mackenzie & Company Limited (microfilm)

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 GB 162 Micr.Afr.584/3
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1908-1910
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 reel

Scope and Content

Record books of Smith Mackenzie & Company Limited relating to agencies in Zanzibar and Mombasa (the books were kept in Zanzibar). Includes freight passage, launch and hire rates, particulars of cargo, summaries of contracts, notes on extraction of clove oil and some copy letters. Microfilm.

Administrative / Biographical History

Smith Mackenzie & Company Limited, shipping agents.

Access Information

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Note

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

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Listed as no. 1175 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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