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Africa, East--Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

British East Africa, Between 1900 and circa 1920

 Record Group — Carton 8
Identifier: 8
Abstract

Group of 5 albums recording colonial life and native life. 1900 to circa 1920. The subjects vary from album to album, several of which appear to have been compiled for Inglis’s mother.

Dates: Between 1900 and circa 1920
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs

British East Africa, Rhodesia, & South Africa : a photographic record of an African journey, 1910

 Class — Carton 10
Identifier: 10
Abstract

A photographic record of an African journey. 1910.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs

East Africa, Circa 1910

 File — Envelope 13
Identifier: 13
Abstract

Collection of original photographs relating to East Africa. Circa 1910.

Dates: Circa 1910
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs

East Africa, Circa 1910

 Record Group — Album 16
Identifier: 16
Abstract

Apparently the record of a safari to British East Africa and Uganda during which the compiler stayed with the Aubertin family at their farm and went on a hunting trip.

Dates: Circa 1910
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs

East Africa Protectorate, Circa 1899-1902

 Record Group — Carton 21
Identifier: 21
Abstract

Original photographs, compiled during the construction of the Uganda Railway.

Dates: Circa 1899-1902
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs

East Africa Protectorate, Circa 1899-1902

 Record Group — Group 21, Album: 2
Identifier: 21-2
Abstract

Album of original photographs, compiled during the construction of the Uganda Railway.

Dates: Circa 1899-1902
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs / East Africa Protectorate

Erinnerung an Deutsch-Ost-Afrika, 1890-1892

 File — Group 29, Folio: 1
Identifier: 29-1
Abstract

Portfolio of original photographs of East Africa entitled, ‘Erinnerung an Deutsch-Ost-Afrika’, 1890-2. 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.

Dates: 1890-1892
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs / German East Africa

German East Africa

 Record Group — Carton 29
Identifier: 29
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...
Dates: 1860-1960; Majority of material found within 1880-1920
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs

Portraits of African people, landscapes, and buildings, 1920s and 1930s

 Record Group — Group 49, Album: 3
Identifier: 49-3
Abstract

Posed portrait photographs of African people, probably Karamojong and some Didinga, landscapes, and buildings.

Dates: 1920s and 1930s
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs / Sudan & Uganda

Postcards, Circa 1890s-1930s

 Class — Carton 43
Identifier: 43
Abstract

Unique collection of 363 postcards of East Africa and Zanzibar. Various photographers, 1890s–1930s.

Dates: Circa 1890s-1930s
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs

South Africa to Egypt via the East African Coast Zanzibar and Aden, late 1890s

 Record Group — Album 6
Identifier: 6
Abstract

Large album, labeled Africa to Egypt via the East African Coast Zanzibar and Aden. Various photographers, late 1890s.

Dates: late 1890s
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs

Sudan & Uganda, 1920s and 1930s

 Record Group — Carton 49
Identifier: 49
Abstract

These photograph albums provide an excellent record of native life in the 1920s and 1930s, and include some remarkably poignant portraits. Although many of the images are small in dimension, they are extremely fine in quality.

Dates: 1920s and 1930s
Found in: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies / 037, Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African photographs