Ricordo Eritrea e Tigrai, Late 1930s

Record Group — Album: 24

Identifier: 24

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs is comprised of about 6,500 photographs organized in 75 primary collections of separate albums, scrapbooks or loose collections. Primary collections range from a single photograph to a set of several photograph albums plus envelopes of loose photographs.

Dates

Late 1930s

Creator

Capello, Cesare (Person)
Ballerini & Fratini (Organization)

Language of Materials

Italian

Conditions Governing Access

To inquire about access to this collection, please contact the Herskovits Library at africana@northwestern.edu.

Extent

1 album (1 album, 29 postcards, 17 x 12 cm.) : Octavo (17 x 12 cm.), containing 29 half-tone images in postcard format, joined in concertina style, with a printed map as endpapers; original embossed paper covers, with an image of African soldier inlaid on the upper cover.

Additional Description

Abstract

Contains souvenir postcards of Mits'iwa (Massawa), Asmara, Keren (Cheren), Akordat (Agordat), Adwa (Adua), Mendefera (Adi Ugri), and Aksum (Axum), and portraits of Eritrean people.