Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Marsden, J. E.
Dates of creation: 1910-1966
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Marsden, J. E.
Language:
English
(1892 - 1966)
| | |
| 1919-1940 | Sudan Agriculture Department |
| 1919-1923 | Assistant Superintendent Engineer, Mechanical Staff, Nuri |
| 1924-1927 | Assistant Superintendent Engineer/Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Section, Atbara |
| 1928 | Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Section, Nuri |
| 1929-1935 | Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Section, Torit |
| 1936-1940 | Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Section, Port Sudan |
1. Personal Papers
2. Photographic Material
Presented by J. Marsden, 1966, & by J.A.J. Marsden, 1968
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.294/18/53-54
1966 Jan 12
Personal letter from Marsden to R.L. Hill recalling reminiscences of General H.W. Jackson (1861-1937), Governor of Berber Province 1902-1922, learned from him first hand during Marsden's service with the Agriculture Department in Dongola Province
and covering Jackson's service on the Wolseley relief expedition to rescue General Gordon and under Kitchener at the Battle of the Atbara and the expedition to meet Captain Marchand at Fashoda, his appointment as Deputy Governor General in 1902, as
well as his relationship with General Wingate
2. Photographic Material
SAD.508/22/5
1910
Large mounted photograph of staff of the Sudan Customs Department at Suakin, including Marsden's father, John Buxton George Marsden (1864-1924), seated front right
SAD.632/6/1-27
[1920-1928]
Personal and family photographs, mainly taken in Khartoum and Dongola Provinces:
SAD.632/6/1
1920 Mar
Marsden's wife in Khartoum North
SAD.632/6/2,4
[1920]
Marsden's daughter, Dorothy, sitting on an Islamic prayer mat placed over a garden bench, Khartoum North
SAD.632/6/3
[1920]
Marsden's wife and daughter, Dorothy, sitting on board a steamer, probably Khartoum Province
SAD.632/6/5
1920 Mar
Marsden's wife and daughter, Dorothy, sitting in a garden in Khartoum North
SAD.632/6/6
[1920]
Steamer, the
Kordofan in a floating dock at Khartoum North dockyard
SAD.632/6/7
1920
View of the Governor-General's palace at Khartoum, from the river
SAD.632/6/8
[1920]
Marsden, Agriculture Department, with his Airedale dog, Nel
SAD.632/6/9
1920
Marsden, Agriculture Department, sitting on board a steamer, the S.S.
Gordon Pasha, probably Khartoum Province (Duplicate print at SAD.632/8/22)
SAD.632/6/10
1920 May
Marsden's daughter, Dorothy, sitting on a whicker chair in a garden, probably Khartoum North
SAD.632/6/11
[1920]
Marsden with his wife and daughter, Dorothy, sitting having tea in a garden, probably Khartoum North
SAD.632/6/12
[1920]
Marsden's wife and mother or mother-in-law standing in a garden, probably Khartoum North
SAD.632/6/13-14
[1922-1928]
Motor boat at Nuri
SAD.632/6/15
[1922-1928]
Marsden's garden at Nuri
SAD.632/6/16
[1922-1928]
Motor boat moored on the Nile at Nuri
SAD.632/6/17
[1922-1928]
Group of palm trees by water course, probably near Nuri (poor quality)
SAD.632/6/18
[1922-1928]
Passengers waiting by a ferry boat
SAD.632/6/19
[1922-1928]
Work gang laying a large pipe
SAD.632/6/20
[1922-1928]
Marsden's house at Nuri
SAD.632/6/21
[1922-1928]
Marsden's garden at Nuri
SAD.632/6/22
[1922-1928]
View of Marsden's garden at Nuri, with the Nile in the background
SAD.632/6/23
[1922-1928]
Marsden's wife and daughter, Dorothy, standing outside their house at Nuri
SAD.632/6/24
1922 Apr 1
Marsden's wife sitting with her daughter, Dorothy, at Nuri after her recovery from fever
SAD.632/6/25
1922 Apr 1
Marsden holding his daughter, Dorothy, at Nuri after her recovery from fever
SAD.632/6/26
[1922-1928]
Marsden sitting in a garden, probably at Nuri, with an unidentified woman and two Airedale dogs
SAD.632/6/27
[1922-1928]
Farmers and traders at a cotton receiving station at Nuri
SAD.632/7/1-33
[1922-1928]
Photographs taken by Marsden, mostly in Dongola Province and including steamer and river scenes, views of Merowe and pumping station machinery:
SAD.632/7/1
[1922-1928]
River front at Ed Dueim, Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/2
[1922-1928]
Nuqur at Kosti, White Nile Province (Duplicate print at SAD.632/8/7 with caption naming location as Kaka)
SAD.632/7/4-5
[1922-1928]
Wind blowing spray onto the deck of a steamer on the White Nile near Jabal Auliya (Duplicate print at SAD.632/8/3)
SAD.632/7/6
[1922-1928]
Marsden standing with a group of children, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/7
[1922-1928]
Two people on camelback possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/8
[1922-1928]
Street scene, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/9
[1922-1928]
Quyasah or
nuqur moored on the Nile, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/10
[1922-1928]
Two men wearing white robes, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/11
[1922-1928]
Street scene, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/12
[1922-1928]
River scene, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/13
[1922-1928]
Elderly man, probably a cotton farmer, and a young boy, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/14
[1922-1928]
Marsden (right) with another man and woman, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/15
[1922-1928]
Two people standing outside the house of Sir H. W. Jackson, Governor, Dongola Province, 1902-1922
SAD.632/7/16
[1922-1928]
Cotton farmer, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/17
[1922-1928]
Crowd of people, possibly awaiting the arrival of a steamer or ferry at Merowe
SAD.632/7/18
[1922-1928]
Steamer on the Nile, possibly Merowe
SAD.632/7/19
[1922-1928]
Temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt
SAD.632/7/20
[1922-1928]
Barges run aground on a sandbank after breaking loose from a steamer, probably Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/21-23
[1922-1928]
River scenes, probably Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/24
[1922-1928]
Saqiyah, probably Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/25
[1922-1928]
River scene, probably Dongola Province, with conical hill in background
SAD.632/7/26
[1922-1928]
Nile steamer, possibly Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/27
[1922-1928]
Pumping station, probably Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/28
[1922-1928]
Irrigation channel at a pumping station, probably Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/29
[1922-1928]
Irrigation canal or drainage channel under construction at a pumping station, probably Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/30
[1922-1928]
Pumping station machinery, probably Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/31-32
[1922-1928]
Pumping station, probably Dongola Province
SAD.632/7/33
[1922-1928]
Irrigation channel at a pumping station, probably Northern Province
SAD.632/8/1-70
[1919-1935]
Photographs taken in southern Sudan, in Upper Nile and Bahr al-Ghazal provinces, including some of Comboni mission stations at Okaru and Torit:
SAD.632/8/1
1920
Sudd on the Bahr al-Ghazal river
SAD.632/8/2
1919-1920
S.G.S.
Fateh loading wood for fuel during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/3
1919-1920
Wind blowing spray onto the upper deck of a steamer on the White Nile, near Jabal Auliya during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal (Duplicate prints at SAD.632/7/4-5)
SAD.632/8/4
1919-1920
Zarzur wood station and village in Upper Nile Province, during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/5
1919-1920
2nd Engineer and Chief Steward of the S.G.S.
Fateh with wood cutters, during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/6
1919-1920
Men loading barges at Ed Dueim during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/7
1919-1920
Dhow at Kaka during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal (Duplicate print at SAD.632/7/2 with caption naming Kosti as location)
SAD.632/8/8
1919-1920
Shilluk men at Malakal with
tukls in the background during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/9
1919-1920
Dinka hunters at Khor Aradeib in the Bahr al-Ghazal during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/10
1919-1920
Forest at Gabat el Arab (?) in the Bahr al-Ghazal during a trip to Meshra' er Req
SAD.632/8/11,18
1919-1920
View from a steamer of sunrise in the Bahr al-Ghazal during a trip to Meshra' er Req
SAD.632/8/12
1919-1920
River partly blocked by
sudd in the Bahr al-Ghazal during a trip to Meshra' er Req
SAD.632/8/13
1919-1920
Steamer towing 8 barges through the
sudd en route to Meshra' er Req
SAD.632/8/14
1919-1920
View of the river through the
sudd from the back of a sternwheeler during a trip to Meshra' er Req in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/15
1919-1920
Group of Dinka women with an Arab woman in front of a
tukl in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/16
1919-1920
Two Shilluk men standing outside a large grass hut at Malakal
SAD.632/8/19
1919-1920
Wood station on the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/20
1919-1920
Village scene at Kaka
SAD.632/8/21
1919-1920
Wood station, probably in Upper Nile Province
SAD.632/8/22
1919-1920
Marsden, Agriculture Department, sitting on board a steamer, the S.S.
Gordon Pasha, probably Khartoum Province (Duplicate print at SAD.632/6/9)
SAD.632/8/23
1919-1920
Steamer,
Fatih, taking on fuel at a wood station, probably Upper Nile Province
SAD.632/8/25
1919-1935
View of Jebelein from the river
SAD.632/8/26
1919-1935
View of the
sudd
SAD.632/8/27
1919-1935
Men on the Jur river in a dugout canoe
SAD.632/8/28,30
1919-1935
Floating mahogany on bamboo rafts on the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/29
1919-1935
River blocked by
sudd in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/31
1919-1935
Forest, probably in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/32
1919-1935
Tributary of the Jur river
SAD.632/8/33
1919-1935
Tukls on the bank of a river, probably in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/34
1919-1935
View of the Sue river
SAD.632/8/35
1919-1935
Woman drying baboon meat in a village, probably in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/36
1919-1935
Woman pounding millet in a village, probably in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/37
1919-1935
Unidentified house, probably government accommodation at Wau
SAD.632/8/38
1919-1935
View of the River Sue
SAD.632/8/39
1919-1935
View of the River Jur
SAD.632/8/40
1919-1935
Unidentified government building, southern Sudan
SAD.632/8/41
1919-1935
People gathered on the river bank at Wau
SAD.632/8/42
1919-1935
Mudiriyah on the site of a fort built by Captain J. B. Marchand in 1896
SAD.632/8/43
1919-1935
Marsden posing beside dead hippopotamus, probably in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/44
1919-1935
Porters collecting hippopotamus meat from bank of river, probably in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/45
1919-1935
Dinka and Niam Niam men, probably in the Bahr al-Ghazal
SAD.632/8/46
1919-1935
Man, possibly Marsden, posing beside dead crocodile, 13'9" in length
SAD.632/8/47
1919-1935
Man, possibly Marsden, in front of tree containing a baboon
SAD.632/8/48-49
1919-1935
Sudd in the Jur river
SAD.632/8/50-51
1919-1935
Group of Dinka men
SAD.632/8/52
1919-1935
Marsden displaying elephant tusks and other hunting trophies
SAD.632/8/53
1919-1935
Men working at
sayiyah
SAD.632/8/54-55
1919-1935
River views, Bahr al-Arab
SAD.632/8/56
1919
Troops disembarking from a steamer at Rejaf, probably during a punitive patrol against Aliab Dinkas
SAD.632/8/57
1929-1935
Motor lorries on the road at Lokila, between Aba and Rejaf
SAD.632/8/58
1929-1935
Villagers standing next to wood piles at Yei
SAD.632/8/59
1929-1935
Marsden walking along a road at Ksgelu
SAD.632/8/60
1929-1935
View of the Nile at Shukoli
SAD.632/8/61
1930
Distant view of Maridi
SAD.632/8/62
1932
Bridge over the River Aswa, on the road between Nimule and Juba
SAD.632/8/63
1929-1935
Signpost nailed to a tree on the border between the Sudan and the Belgian Congo
SAD.632/8/64
1929-1935
View of the River Kineti, in the Imatong mountains
SAD.632/8/65
1928 Oct
Monsignor Guiseppe Zambonardi a Comboni missionary, with a group of children at a Catholic mission school, probably Bahr al-Jabal
SAD.632/8/66
1928
Brother Fanti supervising two young men in a carpentry class at a Catholic mission school at Okaru
SAD.632/8/67
1928
Brother Fanti supervising two young men operating a sawmill at a Catholic mission school at Okaru
SAD.632/8/68
1934 Jun
Crowd of priests and missionary school pupils gathered in front of the Roman Catholic church at Torit during celebrations to mark Monsignor G. Zambonardi's twenty-fifth year of missionary work in the Sudan
SAD.632/8/69
1934 Dec
Father Jordan presenting Christmas gifts to missionary school pupils at Okaru, with Monsignor G. Zambonardi, J. Marsden and Brother Fanti sitting on the right
SAD.632/8/70
1929-1935
Marsden in a motor car near Maji en route to Kapoeta
SAD.632/9/1-2
1938-1939
Photographs taken in Port Sudan:
SAD.632/9/1
1938
Cast of a Port Sudan New Year theatrical production in costume. Standing, from left to right: E.P. Platt (a provincial judge), Mrs Platt, Telford, J. Marsden, David (manager of the Port Sudan ginning factory), Mrs David. Seated, from left to
right: Mrs Telford, Captain MacIntosh of the Black Watch, Mary ? , and Mrs Telford's sister
SAD.632/9/2
1939 Mar
Marsden's yacht
Connie sailing on the Nile at Port Sudan
SAD.632/9/3-11
[1919-1935]
Unidentified views, mostly Equatoria:
SAD.632/9/3
1929-1935
Motor car parked outside an unidentified house with a thatched roof, possibly Equatoria
SAD.632/9/4
1929-1935
Landscape with a hill in the distance, possibly Equatoria
SAD.632/9/5
1929-1935
River scene, possibly Equatoria
SAD.632/9/6
1929-1935
Group of people walking along a road, possibly Equatoria
SAD.632/9/7
1929-1935
Young man walking along a road, possibly Equatoria
SAD.632/9/8
1929-1935
Two British men standing by a river scene, possibly Equatoria
SAD.632/9/9
1929-1935
Herd of sheep, possibly Equatoria
SAD.632/9/10
1919-1928
Man ploughing a field with a bull-drawn plough, possibly Northern Province
SAD.632/9/11
1929-1935
Marsden with group of Sudanese children, possibly Merowe (Duplicate print at SAD.632/7/6)
