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Catalogue description Colonial Office: Kenya Information Service: Photographs
| Reference: | CO 1066 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Colonial Office: Kenya Information Service: Photographs |
| Description: |
This series consists of a number of photographs taken by staff of the Kenya Information Service at the time of the Mau Mau uprising, showing scenes from the uprising as well as images from everyday life in Kenya at the time. |
| Date: | 1952-1961 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Colonial Office, Kenya Information Service, 1945-1963 |
| Physical description: | 17 folders of photographs |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2002 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Selection and destruction information: | All surviving photographs selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, showing conditions in Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau uprising. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The British administration in Kenya had a dedicated information service from at least 1948, headed initially by an Information Officer, later by a Director of Information. Its role was promoting and providing information on the work of the Kenya government and the East African Federation. |
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