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The collection contains single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of the Islamic world, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Gulf States [Qajar], India, North Africa…
Education in England, Cambridge; pre-war work in Africa, Rhodes-Livingstone Museum history, museum collections, infrastructure; conversation with Betty Clark about family and the museum in wartime; WW II in Somaliland, Yavello,…
The collection contains photographs, posters, letters, sound and video recordings, pamphlets, bulletins, reports, and other printed matter collected by Vic and Barby Ulmer, founders of Our Developing World, a non-profit…
The collection contains correspondence, documentation, publications and ephemera related to Sische Nagel, an industrial chemist, and his wife, Mirla
John Marcum's papers primarily date from the late 1950s through the mid-1980s. The collection is arranged with most series organized in alphabetical order, including files on various countries. Within the…
Collection consists of five volumes (686 pages) of an illustrated travel diary kept by E. Ireland, a mature unmarried Scottish woman, between 20 August 1916 and 28 February 1920. The…
The China Corner was launched in April 2017. Earlier it used to be called under the name “Window of Shanghai”. The China Corner is an open access collection housed in…
A collection of Chinese Qing dynasty textiles was established in 1990 and now includes a broad range of costume, wall hangings and embroideries
Collections of Chinese ceramics, Indian miniatures and Japanese prints were established by Eleanor Lorimer, the first Director, in acknowledgment of the Chinese and Indian communities in Port Elizabeth
An extremely large textile collection includes flags, household linen, Indonesian ikats and batiks, Oriental carpets, samples and embroideries, as well as tapestries. Costumes in the collection consist mainly of items…
