2/48 1899: An early photo of Nairobi as a tent city. 
3/48 1909: A market scene in the fast growing town.
4/48 1913: A wagon/rickshaw workshop and, next, wagon makers.
5/48 1912: Government Road (Moi Avenue) Nairobi.
6/48 1916: The front facade of Nairobi Club, which had been founded 15 years earlier, in 1901.
7/48 1916: British officers and askaris of the KAR at Mbagathi Lines, which is Langata barracks today.
8/48 1920s: A military band plays tunes outside Government House. This is State House today.
9/48 1921: St. Austin’s Church with coffee bushes in the foreground.
10/48 1927: Government Road (Moi Avenue).
11/48 1936: Uganda Railway HQs and Sixth Avenue (later Delamere Avenue, then later renamed Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi)
12/48 1937: Msongari School from the air.
13/48 1941: Guns of Italians killed or captured during #WW2 are displayed to the public.
14/48 1942: City Market, whose construction began in 1925.
15/48 1954: British officers execute Operation Anvil in the streets. This was an operation at the height of the Emergency to rid the city of #MauMau.
16/48 1954: Mau Mau suspects under detention in Bahati and downtown Nairobi respectively.
17/48 1954: Kenya plays Uganda during the Gossage Cup final at Doonholm Stadium, which is City Stadium today.
18/48 1955: The entrance to Royal Nairobi National Park.
19/48 1958: An East Africa Safari rally car zooms last City Hall after being flagged off.
20/48 1961: Cars parked in downtown Nairobi.
21/48 1961: A man walks past Standard Bank of South Africa Building on Delamere Avenue. The building hosts Standard Chartered Bank today.
22/48 1961: Nairobi Primary School’s swimming pool. The school was founded as a junior school of Prince of Wales School (Nairobi School).
23/48 1961: Skyline over the city of Nairobi. See the Union Jack fluttering atop Parliament Buildings?
24/48 1965: Kenyans at the Jockey Club races.
25/48 1965: A beggar in downtown Nairobi. Next is a view in the same year of the Moi Avenue-Kigali Road junction with Jamia Mosque in the background.
26/48 1966: A small crowd at a bus stage in Westlands.
27/48 1966: The grounds of the Great Circus of India in South B and, next, a circus performance in session. This was at grounds occupied by Nyayo Stadium today.
28/48 1966: Grounds of the former Royal College. They are today the University of Nairobi grounds.
29/48 1967: A scene at the Tom Mboya-Ronald Ngala Streets junction.
30/48 1968: Government Road, which was later renamed Moi Avenue.
31/48 1969: Kids from the nearby Catholic Parochial Primary School file nearly into the Holy Family Basilica.
32/48 1970: Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) under construction.
33/48 1971: HFCK building along Kenyatta Avenue. This is Rehani House today.
34/48 1973: A view of a bustling city with the Hilton Hotel in the background.
35/48 1973: A section of Buru Buru Estate (Phase 1). The estate was built by HFCK with support from the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
36/48 1975: A magnificent photo of the KICC grounds.
37/48 1976: School kids wait to be conducted on a tour of the KICC.
38/48 1978: Tom Mboya-Ronald Ngala Streets junction.
39/48 1978: A rugby duel at the Railway Club in Nairobi.
40/48 1981: Changaa brewing in Mathare slums.
41/48 1983: Mcmillan Memorial Library, construction of which was sponsored by Juja Farm’s Lady McMillan.
42/48 1985: Jua kali artisans at work in Shauri Moyo.
43/48 1987: A young @BarackObama outside Ramogi studio in downtown Nairobi.
44/48 1990: The front of Nairobi Railway Station.
45/48 1993: Eastern end of City Hall Way, featuring Kencom Building in the background.
46/48 1994: Worshippers at a rally hosted by German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke.
47/48 2004: One of the London-look taxis that were popular in the city at the turn of this century.
48/48 2014: A herder walks in the shadows of gigantic power windmills at Ngong Hills, just outside Nairobi #NaiNiWho
Pardon the grammar - the inadvertent inclusion of ‘nearly’.
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