Wesson, A.D.
Introduction
A.D. Wesson
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
a. Cotton seed in Gezira
b. Floods at al-Zeidab, 1946
2. Maps
Printed material
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Wesson, A.D.
Dates of creation: 1933-1946
Extent: 1 file
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: Wesson, A.D.
Language: English

A.D. Wesson

(fl. 1920 - 1958)#

1920-1950 Employee of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate Ltd and Kassala Cotton Co. Ltd.


Arrangement

1. Photographic Material
2. Maps
3. Printed Material

Accession details

Presented by Wesson, 1958

Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
a. Cotton seed in Gezira
SAD.1/25/1-6
Stacked bags of cotton seed
SAD.1/25/7-8
View over yard from top of a seed stack, 18 bags high
SAD.1/25/9-10
Partly finished stack of cotton bales
b. Floods at al-Zeidab, 1946
SAD.1/25/11
The khor between the suq and the office, taken about ten days before the height of the floods
SAD.1/25/12
View from the bridge over the main canal near the suq
SAD.1/25/13
View of the river from the office, ten days before the peak
SAD.1/25/14
View from the bridge at 8/6 showing flood between No. 6 canal and the hills
SAD.1/25/15
Inspecting the donkey pumps. Charlie Ramsay in the background
SAD.1/25/16
View from donkey pumps showing land west of No. 7 canal flooded
SAD.1/25/17
View from boat on return from inspection of donkey engine, with main canal in the distance. No. 7 canal totally flooded
2. Maps
SAD.511/11.[MP]
1933 Sep 16
Sudan Plantations Syndicate Ltd. map of the Gezira canalisation scheme showing the layout of Gezira and Kassala areas
scale:   1 to 250,000
Size: 90 x 28 cms
Digitised material for Sudan Plantations Syndicate Ltd. map of the Gezira canalisation scheme 1933 - SAD.511/11.[MP]
SAD.PF 26/3/3
1939 Jan
Map of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan showing positions of hospitals and dispensaries. Sudan Survey Department, Khartoum (Topo NoS.182-25).
1:8,000,000
Size: 42.5 x 31 cm
Printed material
Durham University Library Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into library and catalogued on OPAC.
“The Sudan Plantations Syndicate Ltd and the Kassala Cotton Co. Ltd. and their work in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”, repr. from The forty-fifth annual report of the British Cotton Growing Association (1950)
Kassala Cotton Co. Ltd., Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts, 30 June 1948 (London, 1949)
Sudan Plantations Syndicate Ltd., Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts, 30 June 1948 (London, 1949)
Sudan Railways: Time tables of trains and steamers. Includes Sudan Railways map showing Cairo-Mombasa Route. (Atbara 1939)
Sudan Railways. Time table of trains and steamers at principal stations (Atbara, 1949)