Imperialism

This series of slides on the 'imperialism' of Europe and the United States of America during the early 20th century was put together by Henry Sara using images from newspapers, magazines and other publications. Subjects covered include: the First World War aims of the Allies (including the Allied refusal to bomb the key iron producing area of Briey, France, whilst it was under German control); the Spanish and French military in Morocco; French involvement in Syria; US interests in South America, including in Nicaragua and Mexico; British occupation in the Middle East, including in Iraq and Palestine; protests against the visit of Lord Balfour to the Middle East in 1925; Afghanistan; British involvement in India; views of Takordai (now in Ghana), Sierra Leone, Victoria Falls and Kenya; and images of supporters of the British Empire, including Lord Meath, Sir Austin Chamberlain and Major General Frank Sutton. Captions for these slides are availableLink opens in a new window , some of the language used reflects the opinions of the time (please contact us if you are unable to access the information in pdf format).

The Burnley Express of 5 December 1928 includes a reference to Sara's recent delivery of a lecture on 'Modern Imperialism', under the auspices of the Labour Party, at Sabden Council School.

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War Aims of the Allies (Map)
Briey (Map showing mining districts of the Lorraine and the Saar)
Cartoon
Cartoon
Cartoon
Northern Africa: Map showing Morocco
Aeroplanes on a Spanish Aircraft Carrier during the landing operations. Afterwards used with great effect to bomb Abdel Krim's headquarters at Ajdir and his batteries and trenches on the coast. Ajdir the Rifi capital.
The first Spanish landing on Cebadilla Beach on Sept. 8th 1925, an air view showing scouts climbing the sandhills, and troops disembarking from the boats, on two of which may be seen turreted tanks.
An incident in the Moroccan war. Spanish soldiers inspecting an outpost which has been abandoned by the Riffs during the Spanish advance.
French camp, Tissa, Morocco: Two bombing aeroplanes being replenished with explosives, to the right another aeroplane already supplied with bombs starting for a flight over the Riff country; in the foreground troops & convoys. Aug. 1925
Where Marshal Petain's forces have recovered all the ground lost in the summer of 1925: the old post of Jebel Amseft reoccupied by French troops since August 26th 1925
French artillery in the Hill country north of Taza: a battery of Howitzers in the territory of the Branes – showing right foreground the wireless apparatus by which communication is maintained with headquarters.
An air view of Abdel Krim’s arrival at Targuist escorted by a small group of horsemen, after his surrender: the fort that was formerly his residence before its capture by the French.
Where Abdel Krim and his attendance were lodged after their surrender, in his former residence on their way to Taza: part of the fortified enclosure at Targuist. June 1926
The French resident-General who did much to bring about Abdel Krim’s surrender: M. Stegg inspecting General Mougin's native troops at the front
Russian cotton map to show Syria
The blazing city of Damascus: a picture taken long after sunset showing the glow from the fire caused by the French bombardment
The French bombardment of Damascus: a scene of desolation in the historic city after the damaging fire caused by the French guns during the bombardment
The French bombardment of Damascus: a scene of desolation in the historic city after the damaging fire caused by the French guns during the bombardment
The riots at Damascus - bodies of rebels left lying in the streets after the fierce fighting
The French repulse the rioters with machine guns – a barricaded post in a Damascus street. Nov. 1925
The capture of Hasbaya by the French in Syria – a scene during the attack showing the dead and dying on the ground
With great loss to the Druse the French troops finally succeeded in capturing Hasbaya, the Christian stronghold in which the Druses massacred twenty Christians and besieged the Foreign Legion and Spahis in the citadel
This horrible photograph shows the corpse of a rebel being fastened to the back of a camel by French troops in Damascus prior to a ghastly parade of a couple of dozen such corpses through the main street of that city as a warning to the people
An emergency suspension bridge being thrown across the river Hisbani on the Palestine frontier to enable the gendarmerie patrols to cross during the winter floods. The Palestine gendarmerie is a local police force under British officers.
A convoy of Druse refugees crossing the border on the North frontier of Palestine
Fording the river Hisbani near Khasas
Four deserters from the French Foreign Legion who escaped into Palestine after a skirmish at Hasbaya between a raiding party of Druses and a French patrol
American penetration in the Caribbean (Map)
Panama Canal
At the request of Britain and Italy, U.S. Forces enter Managua the capital of Nicaragua and are formally received
Preparing for trouble with the U.S.A. Mexican infantry parading before the Government palace in Mexico City.
A band of Mexican irregulars on the U.S. frontier preparing for eventualities
In the U.S. there has been considerable commotion over rubber. Crude rubber gathered by Indians in the forest wilds of Eastern Peru being weighed at a jungle station. America might invest capital for the development of the industry in South America.
Mesopotamia map
One of the block houses which now dot Irak [Iraq]
The men who safeguard Irak [Iraq] – Assyrian levies, under British officers, guarding a D.H. 9a Bomber on the plains.
Map showing Palestine, also Egypt
'Blessing the Mohammedan Flag on its being taken from the house of the Grand Mufti, Mousa Kasim Pasha'
The flag preceded by a British band leaving the city on the pilgrimage to Neby Mousa the reputed tomb of Moses in the Wilderness
British and Indian troops on guard at St Stephan's Gate, above the Indian's head is the Arab motto 'Strength is Unity, and Unity is obtained by wisdom'
At the Jaffa gate a Sepoy searching an Arab for arms
A Havildar examining two Arabs
Searching a Greek priest
Captured during the riots
The street leading to the Jaffa gate during the riots
British soldiers with machine guns in street during the riots
Where much of the bloodshed took place: the Jews' 'Wailing Place'
A Lewis gun in the breach in the wall near Jaffa Gate made for the Ex-Kaiser
Lord Balfour's hostile reception in Damascus
The police in El Margi Square turning back the mob of Arab rioters who demonstrated before the hotel in which the statesman was staying. April 1925.
Black flags flying from houses as part of the Arab protest against Lord Balfour’s visit
Armed police patrolling the Jaffa Road on the day of Lord Balfour’s arrival. No Arab vehicles were seen in the streets and all Arab houses were shut, together with the shops.
British armoured cars passing along the side of the Nile. Cairo, Dec. 1924
Map showing Afghanistan, India with Amritzar
Mule carts: Convoy in the Kyber Pass. The Mahsuds, 1920.
Survey section in the Kyber pass working under the protection of guard. The force of six brigades was entirely Indian except for officers and specialists.
Gurkha troops holding a Sangar Post
Gurkha troops holding a Sangar Post
The first battalion of the Kings Royal Rifles on the march from Rawalpindi in Wazirstan: the column emerging from a tunnel through a defile near the Indus valley.
Sepoys being blown from the canon mouth, 1857
Women for bazars memorandum, 1886
Examination document
Ticket
Houses in Bombay
Spinning wheel in Indian village
Indian police with their bamboo poles setting out to drive back the Akalis. A scene in Amritsar during the recent conflict between the Akali Sikhs and the police at the Guru ka Bagh shrine.
Interior of ruined bank. After grave disturbances in which two officials of the National Bank were murdered a small military force on Brig-General Dyer’s orders fired on a huge crowd killing about 500 and injuring many more
Bank
Loot taken during the rioting on April 10th which was subsequently recaptured by the police
Back view of the bank building
Front of the National Bank after the fire
The cage constructed at Kasur for the detention of suspects, there was no overhead covering and it was open to the public at the sides
A Sepoy flogging an offender. On the left is a British soldier with bayonet fixed
Tied to a ladder at Kasur railway station
The gallows erected at Kasur on May 3rd down under orders of the Commissioner of Lahore. 1919
Gandhi sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1922
Meeting of native strikers in Bombay during the strike of mill operatives. January 1920
The Indian National Congress. The passage of the President through the streets of Calcutta. 1920
West Coast of Africa
Takoradi Harbour
Takordai Harbour
Sir Ofori Atta at opening of Takoradi Harbour
Temne Chiefs, northern province, Sierra Leone
Hanging Bridge, Sierra Leone
Boia Junction S.L.C.R.
'A native weaver'
Weaving county cloths
River fishing Southern Province
Preparing ground for planting rice
Zambesi and Victoria Falls
Zambesi and Victoria Falls
Kenya
Masai School at Narok
Mysteries on a blackboard
Compelled labour of girls, 1922, detained from their homes without food or blankets
These sheets of tear-off forms were supplied free by the Government. On an employer filling in the particulars, the gov. traced and arrested the native deserter and subjected him to a state prosecution
Malay
Lepers
Tapping tree for rubber
Jamaica bananas
Lord Meath founder of Empire Day
Sir Austin Chamberlain
Major General Francis Arthur Sutton
Sutton and Chang Tso-lin
Sutton's mortars and trenches
Hands off Russia (map)
Skull

[Document reference for this set of slides: MSS.15B/5/1/7]

War Aims of the Allies (Map)

Briey (Map showing mining districts of the Lorraine and the Saar)

Cartoon

Cartoon

Cartoon

Northern Africa: Map showing Morocco

Aeroplanes on a Spanish Aircraft Carrier during the landing operations. Afterwards used with great effect to bomb Abdel Krim's headquarters at Ajdir and his batteries and trenches on the coast. Ajdir the Rifi capital.

The first Spanish landing on Cebadilla Beach on Sept. 8th 1925, an air view showing scouts climbing the sandhills, and troops disembarking from the boats, on two of which may be seen turreted tanks.

An incident in the Moroccan war. Spanish soldiers inspecting an outpost which has been abandoned by the Riffs during the Spanish advance.

French camp, Tissa, Morocco: Two bombing aeroplanes being replenished with explosives, to the right another aeroplane already supplied with bombs starting for a flight over the Riff country; in the foreground troops & convoys. Aug. 1925

Where Marshal Petain's forces have recovered all the ground lost in the summer of 1925: the old post of Jebel Amseft reoccupied by French troops since August 26th 1925

French artillery in the Hill country north of Taza: a battery of Howitzers in the territory of the Branes – showing right foreground the wireless apparatus by which communication is maintained with headquarters.

An air view of Abdel Krim’s arrival at Targuist escorted by a small group of horsemen, after his surrender: the fort that was formerly his residence before its capture by the French.

Where Abdel Krim and his attendance were lodged after their surrender, in his former residence on their way to Taza: part of the fortified enclosure at Targuist. June 1926

The French resident-General who did much to bring about Abdel Krim’s surrender: M. Stegg inspecting General Mougin's native troops at the front

Russian cotton map to show Syria

The blazing city of Damascus: a picture taken long after sunset showing the glow from the fire caused by the French bombardment

The French bombardment of Damascus: a scene of desolation in the historic city after the damaging fire caused by the French guns during the bombardment

The French bombardment of Damascus: a scene of desolation in the historic city after the damaging fire caused by the French guns during the bombardment

The riots at Damascus - bodies of rebels left lying in the streets after the fierce fighting

The French repulse the rioters with machine guns – a barricaded post in a Damascus street. Nov. 1925

The capture of Hasbaya by the French in Syria – a scene during the attack showing the dead and dying on the ground

With great loss to the Druse the French troops finally succeeded in capturing Hasbaya, the Christian stronghold in which the Druses massacred twenty Christians and besieged the Foreign Legion and Spahis in the citadel

This horrible photograph shows the corpse of a rebel being fastened to the back of a camel by French troops in Damascus prior to a ghastly parade of a couple of dozen such corpses through the main street of that city as a warning to the people

An emergency suspension bridge being thrown across the river Hisbani on the Palestine frontier to enable the gendarmerie patrols to cross during the winter floods. The Palestine gendarmerie is a local police force under British officers.

A convoy of Druse refugees crossing the border on the North frontier of Palestine

Fording the river Hisbani near Khasas

Four deserters from the French Foreign Legion who escaped into Palestine after a skirmish at Hasbaya between a raiding party of Druses and a French patrol

American penetration in the Caribbean (Map)

Panama Canal

At the request of Britain and Italy, U.S. Forces enter Managua the capital of Nicaragua and are formally received

Preparing for trouble with the U.S.A. Mexican infantry parading before the Government palace in Mexico City.

A band of Mexican irregulars on the U.S. frontier preparing for eventualities

In the U.S. there has been considerable commotion over rubber. Crude rubber gathered by Indians in the forest wilds of Eastern Peru being weighed at a jungle station. America might invest capital for the development of the industry in South America.

Mesopotamia map

One of the block houses which now dot Irak [Iraq]

The men who safeguard Irak [Iraq] – Assyrian levies, under British officers, guarding a D.H. 9a Bomber on the plains.

Map showing Palestine, also Egypt

'Blessing the Mohammedan Flag on its being taken from the house of the Grand Mufti, Mousa Kasim Pasha'

The flag preceded by a British band leaving the city on the pilgrimage to Neby Mousa the reputed tomb of Moses in the Wilderness

British and Indian troops on guard at St Stephan's Gate, above the Indian's head is the Arab motto 'Strength is Unity, and Unity is obtained by wisdom'

At the Jaffa gate a Sepoy searching an Arab for arms

A Havildar examining two Arabs

Searching a Greek priest

Captured during the riots

The street leading to the Jaffa gate during the riots

British soldiers with machine guns in street during the riots

Where much of the bloodshed took place: the Jews' 'Wailing Place'

A Lewis gun in the breach in the wall near Jaffa Gate made for the Ex-Kaiser

Lord Balfour's hostile reception in Damascus

The police in El Margi Square turning back the mob of Arab rioters who demonstrated before the hotel in which the statesman was staying. April 1925.

Black flags flying from houses as part of the Arab protest against Lord Balfour’s visit

Armed police patrolling the Jaffa Road on the day of Lord Balfour’s arrival. No Arab vehicles were seen in the streets and all Arab houses were shut, together with the shops.

British armoured cars passing along the side of the Nile. Cairo, Dec. 1924

Map showing Afghanistan, India with Amritzar

Mule carts: Convoy in the Kyber Pass. The Mahsuds, 1920.

Survey section in the Kyber pass working under the protection of guard. The force of six brigades was entirely Indian except for officers and specialists.

Gurkha troops holding a Sangar Post

Gurkha troops holding a Sangar Post

The first battalion of the Kings Royal Rifles on the march from Rawalpindi in Wazirstan: the column emerging from a tunnel through a defile near the Indus valley.

Sepoys being blown from the canon mouth, 1857

Women for bazars memorandum, 1886

Examination document

Ticket

Houses in Bombay

Spinning wheel in Indian village

Indian police with their bamboo poles setting out to drive back the Akalis. A scene in Amritsar during the recent conflict between the Akali Sikhs and the police at the Guru ka Bagh shrine.

Interior of ruined bank. After grave disturbances in which two officials of the National Bank were murdered a small military force on Brig-General Dyer’s orders fired on a huge crowd killing about 500 and injuring many more

Bank

Loot taken during the rioting on April 10th which was subsequently recaptured by the police

Back view of the bank building

Front of the National Bank after the fire

The cage constructed at Kasur for the detention of suspects, there was no overhead covering and it was open to the public at the sides

A Sepoy flogging an offender. On the left is a British soldier with bayonet fixed

Tied to a ladder at Kasur railway station

The gallows erected at Kasur on May 3rd down under orders of the Commissioner of Lahore. 1919

Gandhi sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1922

Meeting of native strikers in Bombay during the strike of mill operatives. January 1920

The Indian National Congress. The passage of the President through the streets of Calcutta. 1920

West Coast of Africa