Photographic Print Collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Distinguishes collections in the Library that are part of the Photographic Print Collection (PPC) data set.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Jobe Akeley photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A426
Scope and Contents
Field photographs taken by Mary Jobe and Carl Akeley which include the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy and other African expeditions, portraitures, and American Museum of Natural History lab views of Carl Akeley's taxidermy.
Dates:
1896-1930s
Stereographs of African landscapes, people and culture
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A382
Scope and Content note
This is an unidentified collection of stereographs, the majority of them undated, of African landscape, villages, towns and people. The countries represented are Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda. Among the African peoples mentioned are the Buganda, Wanderobo, Kikuya, Taita, Masai, Lumbwa and Nandi.Most of the cards are labeled on the verso in the same hand. They are unsigned but identified by the initials V.S.K. A number of the cards describe interactions...
Dates:
1905-1911
