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RCS Photographers Index (online), viewed October 10, 2018 (A C Gomes and Sons, founded by A.C. Gomes in Aden in 1869, moved to Zanzibar ca. 1870s; Gomes's son, P. F. Gomes, took some of the first photographs of the Uganda Railway; A. C. Gomes died in 1917; the business was continued by P. F. Gomes who died in 1932; a branch of the company was opened in Dar-es-Salaam by P. F. Gomes and his son, E. Gomes, in 1929; in 1930 P. F. Gomes's other son, G. Gomes, was running the studio in Main Street, Zanzibar; the family were possibly originally from Goa)
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