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The station Magardi with Hawley on the veranda. The two doors on the right are offices and the rest Hawley's rooms. The place on the right is half the Magardi Hotel. It had a brief board on the front to announce the fact that the proprietors had bolted owing money.

 Item — Album: 35, Page: 28
Identifier: 35-28-1

Scope and Contents

From the Record Group:

Small quarto (25x 22 cm.), containing 116 silver print snapshots (each approximately 11 x 7 cm.), mainly captioned, some with long annotations. Mounted on the first album leaf is a ferrotype (also known as a tintype), showing Squiers on horseback with a colleague and two Italian boys, in front of Mt. Vesuvius. Then follows the African content.

Dates

  • 1912-1914

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Record Group:

English

Conditions Governing Access

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

Extent

From the Record Group: 1 album (1 album, 41 p., 22 x 25 cm.) : A few images a little faded; black half-morocco; minor wear to head and foot of spine.

Physical Description

Photograph 1

Library Details

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

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