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Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell
Item
Identifier: Mss .C36
Scope and content
Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...
Dates:
1935 - 1938
Photographs of African people and culture
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A381
Scope and Content Note
The majority of this collection consists of photographs and photographic postcards of African people, locations and objects. Many of the photographs are portraits and various cultures are represented. Most of the images are captioned and several items are accompanied by brief notes.The earliest dated item is among a group of photographs collected by Franz Uri Boas for research (Folder 1). These include various objects of ritual and daily use, pygmies at the 1904 St. Louis...
Dates:
circa 1904-1950
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- Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
- Beals, Jessie Tarbox 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Campbell, William Durant, 1907-1995 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
- Dickinson, W. V. D. (William Vicris Digby), 1889-1948 1
- Foster, Robert 1
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
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