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Mombasa, 1900

 File — Album: 42
Identifier: 42

Scope and Contents

Album of original photographs of Mombasa by William D. Young, 1900. A fine album with bright, sharply focused images of early colonial Mombasa and the Uganda Railway.

Dates

  • 1900

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Access

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

Extent

1 album (1 album, 24 p., 22 x 29 cm.) : Small oblong quarto (22 x 29 cm.), containing 24 silver prints, each 16 x 21 cm., each captioned on the mount, photographer’s printed label on the front pastedown, ‘Wm. D. Young, Photographer, MacDonald Terrace, Mombasa’; contemporary red cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine.

Abstract

Album of original photographs of Mombasa by William D. Young, 1900.

Library Details

Part of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Repository

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