Africa: posters and ephemera
This collection consists of posters, calendars, flipbooks, voting forms, maps, an umbrella and other ephemera from various countries throughout Africa. A majority of the posters deal with topics such as…
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Horn of Africa Ethnic Groups
Ethnic groups map
Horn of Africa (Shaded Relief) Maps
Shaded relief maps
Ethiopia Maps
The collection consists of country, city, detailed, regional, thematic and topographical maps
Morris and Dorothy Margolin film collection, 1947-1982 and undated
The Morris and Dorothy Margolin Film Collection includes 32 home movies that capture the Margolins' travels between 1947 and 1976. Destinations represented in the collection include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada,…
Women’s Refugee Commission records, 1979-2020; 1979-ongoing, bulk 1989-2011
The collection is organized into several series, each representing different operations within the Women's Refugee Commission. The Audiovisual Materials series includes tapes in a variety of formats documenting speaking engagements, luncheons, and…
Dese, Ethiopia photographs, 1935-1936
Collection comprises 43 3.5 x 2.5 black-and-white photographs of Dese, Ethiopia, primarily featuring groups of people and local infrastructure. The photographer is unknown. Images include native tribunals and prisoners, the…
Sarah Bowdich Lee manuscript on African history and geography, 1830s
Collection consists of one untitled holograph manuscript (439 pages) written by Sarah Bowdich Lee discussing African history, exploration, geography, and culture. It appears to date from the 1830s, and was…
Lewis Hine Fellowship photographs collection, 2003-2008
The Lewis Hine Fellowship Photographs Collection spans the years 2003-2008 and consists of selected images from the documentary collections of six of the Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program (LHDFP) fellows…
Italian soldier’s Ethiopian photograph album, 1935-1937
Collection comprises a photograph album maintained by an Italian soldier stationed in Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the subsequent Italian occupation of the region. The soldier is unidentified,…