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Autobiography, correspondence, documents, maps, reports, black/white photographs and photograph albums, several thousand color slides, and artifacts of a Swiss-born mining geologist who visited or worked in many countries from the…
This collection contains the original French documents relating to an African slave trade expedition undertaken by the French ship Le Jeune Louis in 1824-1825. The trip extended from Nantes to…
The William P. Miller papers consist of news clippings, a military order, printed matter, photographs, motion picture film, and a Nazi flag relating to Miller's career with the Sixth Army…
Memoranda, orders, maps, reports, charts, photographs, and printed matter, relating to the invasion of French Morocco, Sicily, and southern France, activities of the Third and Seventh United States Armies, and…
1. North Africa and Asia, primarily unidentified. --2. Egypt, Uganda, Aden, Palestine, West Africa, South Africa, mainly 1926; photographic prints and post cards. --3. India, Ceylon, Japan; primarily postcards. --4.…
Photographs and miscellany, relating to American military activities in France and the United States during World War I, and Arab life in North Africa during World War II. Includes a…
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, radio and telegraph dispatches, charts, and lists, relating to Polish intelligence operations in French North Africa and the evacuation of Polish troops from France in 1940.
Orders, decrees, and memoranda, relating to Free French military activities in French West Africa during World War II
241 black and white photographs in large album commemorating the British Association for the Advancement of Science's meeting in South Africa. Images feature shots from the journey to and from…
Bernhard and Rosette Schragenheim, with their son Julian, arrived in South Africa in 1934, to escape the Nazi regime in Germany. The bulk of the material is from Germany and…