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Photograph of the docks at Burutu

GB1752.UAC/1/11/9/17/83 | UAC Public Relations Department.UAC Public Relations Department: Photograph Albums.UAC Public Relations Department: Niger Company Album. | Photograph shows three steam paddle boats and one larger steam ship tied to the docks at Burutu. The steam paddle boat closest to the camera is the 'Kampe' which is being loaded. There is a pontoon barge next to it with two bridges. On one of the bridges two Africans and a European man are talking. On the other is a line of African workers each equidistant to each other carrying two white sacks on their head. This line stretched on…