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Zanzibar--Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

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