Abstract

Portfolio of original photographs of East Africa entitled, ‘Erinnerung an Deutsch-Ost-Afrika’, 1890-2. A highly important, early record of the German presence in East Africa and Zanzibar and, in particular, the military stations they established in what became German East Africa.

Abstract Portfolio of original photographs of East Africa entitled, ‘Erinnerung an Deutsch-Ost-Afrika’, 1890-2. With a small box of contemporary military visiting cards and some correspondence in German, plus a small circular silver print (10 cm. in diameter) of a German passenger ship, identified on the wooden frame, ‘D.O.A.L., Kanzler’. A highly important, early record of the German presence in East Africa and Zanzibar and, in particular, the military stations they established in what became German...