German East Africa

Record Group — Carton: 29

Identifier: 29

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Folio (43 x 34 cm.), containing 92 albumen prints (13 large images: 26 x 21 cm, 79 smaller images of various dimensions), all laid in card, many with German captions printed from the negatives, together with a card box containing a number of visiting cards and letters, and a framed, circular silver print (10 cm. in diameter).

Dates

1860-1960
Majority of material found within 1880-1920

Creator

Prencke, Paul (Person)

Language of Materials

German,

Access

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

Biographical Notes

Album belonged to Paul Prencke, identified in enclosed letters as the director of the D.O.A.G. office in Bagamoyo.

Extent

1 album (1 album and two envelopes, one containing calling cards, the other 7 handwritten letters.) : Folio (43 x 34 cm.), containing 92 albumen prints, in contemporary black morocco portfolio, flaps and ties, with ‘Erinnerung an Deutsch-Ost Afrika, 1890-1892’ blocked in gilt on the upper cover; spine repaired, photographs housed in recent custom-made cloth box inside the portfolio.

Additional Description

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 East Africa.