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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…
World War II Era photos taken in Egypt, Cape Town and the Western Desert (Libya) [1942?] Album begins with 47 mostly commercial photos of Egypt followed by 9 sepia-toned photos…
The focus of this album of albumen photographs is Tunisia, although it also contains five views of Tripoli and surrounding areas in Libya. Tunisian locations represented are Carthage, Tunis, Bizerte,…
Album contains over 130 photographs, sketches, and clippings, mainly images of the western desert and Libya, Egypt, and some of Jerusalem, apparently taken by a British soldier (most likely RAF…
Correspondence, writings, and photographs, relating to the Italo-Ethiopian War, to Italian colonization of Libya, and to Italian relations in North and East Africa. Includes an album of photographs of Benito…
Writings, reports, clippings, and notes, relating to the trade union movement in Africa, primarily during the 1960s.
The collection consists of maps of In Amguel, Laperrine, Tazrouk, Gara Kassar, Azrou-n-Fad, Jebel 'Uweinat, Camp 18, Bir Murr, Wadi Kalabsha, W. El-Quffa, W. Hodein, Dubayrah, El-Diwan, Gebel Seiga, Gebel Gerf, Halaib, Adrar, Aoulef Ech Cheurfa, In Salah, Ers Oum El Lil, Chebka Tinrhert, Aoulef El Arab, Oued Djaret, Ain Tidjoubar, Adrar Ahellakane, Arak, Garet El…
The collection consists of country, topographic, historical and thematic maps
Maps of In Amguel, Fort Laperrine, Tazrouk, Gara Kassar, Azrou-n-Fad, Jebel 'Uweinat, Camp 18, Bir Murr, Wadi Kalabsha, W. El-Quffa, W. Hodein, Dubayrah, El-Diwan, Gebel Siega, Gebel Gerf, Halaib, Adrar,…
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…
