Germany--Colonies--Africa--Administration

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.

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Photographs illustrating the life of an officer in the 12th company of the Schutztruppe, stationed in Mahenge.

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...

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A small box of contemporary military visiting cards.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

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).

Scope and Contents From the File:

First edition (Berlin : Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1890). A rare publication; an historical record of early German involvement in East Africa, containing 39 images of Zanzibar, 15 images of Bagamoyo, 12 of Dar es Salaam and 17 scenes of a military nature.

Scope and Contents

First edition (Berlin : Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1890). A rare publication; an historical record of early German involvement in East Africa, containing 39 images of Zanzibar, 15 images of Bagamoyo, 12 of Dar es Salaam and 17 scenes of a military nature.