Plateau Province Annual Report, 1926
This archive contains the Plateau Province Annual Report for 1926, prepared by Mr Philip Lonsdale, Senior Resident. The report is preserved through the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme as part of the project Recovering the Endangered Archives of the Benue Valley, Central Nigeria.
The report forms part of the series Annual Provincial Reports for Plateau Province [1905–1955], within a wider collection of colonial and ethnographic documents, transcripts and photographs from the collection of C. C. Jacobs.
Dating from 1926, the report provides a primary historical source for studying the administration and development of Plateau Province during the colonial period. It can be useful to researchers examining the history of Jos, Plateau Province and surrounding communities, as well as colonial administration and the social and economic conditions of the period.
The British Library catalogue records the material as a file consisting of digitised TIFF images in English. The original material is held by Benue State University, while the digitised material can be viewed online through the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme.
Reference (Shelfmark): EAP532/1/2/1
British Library Record ID: 040-002879669
Title: Plateau Province Annual Report by Senior Resident Mr Philip Lonsdale [1926]
Date: 1926
Record Type: File
Format: TIFF images
Language: English
Collection: Endangered Archives Programme
Project: Recovering the Endangered Archives of the Benue Valley, Central Nigeria
Series: Annual Provincial Reports for Plateau Province [1905–1955]
Original Material: Benue State University
Access: Research purposes