Barclays Bank Building

Barclays Bank Building

The recently opened Barclays Bank D.C.O. (Dominion, Colonial, and Overseas) overlooks Kisumu's Central Square with Lake Victoria in the background. Barclays Bank D.C.O., a subsidiary of London-based Barclays Bank Ltd., was Britain's largest overseas bank and resulted from a 1925 merger of Colonial Bank, National Bank of South Africa, and Anglo-Egyptian Bank. [Original caption: "One of the new building of Kisumu's Central Square]

Municipality of Kisumu. Kisumu Guide. Nairobi: United Africa Press Ltd., c1960. J. Mark Souther Collection

ca. 1960