German East Africa
Record Group — Carton: 29
Identifier: 29
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.
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.
Creator
- Prencke, Paul (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Repository
Contact:
Northwestern University Libraries
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston IL 60208-2300 US
847-467-3084
africana@northwestern.edu
Northwestern University Libraries
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston IL 60208-2300 US
847-467-3084
africana@northwestern.edu