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The collection contains original and secondary material related to Gamble's more than six decades of research on The Gambia and its peoples. This includes original notes, illustrations, maps, photographs, and…
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…
63 brown-tone photographs by Roger Tredwell (1885-1961), taken while he was U.S. Consul General at Large for Central Asia and Africa. Includes scenes and people of Morocco, Egypt, Kenya (Mombasa),…
Electronic bulletins, pamphlets, serial issues, reports, and other printed matter, relating to political, social and economic conditions in Senegal.
A collection of hundreds of negative images and black and white photos from the same region, circa 1950-1959. All depicting Mali/Senegal and surrounding countries. Some with descriptions (most in French),…
Album contains 195 small black and white snapshots, captioned in English and taken on separate trips to Jamaica (September 1922) and Africa (New York to Matadi, Belgian Congo, Mar. 13-July…
Album of a trade fair from French West Africa (mainly Dakar in present-day Senegal). Full list of captions (in French) with album and in CF. "Foire expostion de l' A.O.F."…
Correspondence, reports, dispatches, newspapers, clippings, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to political, economic, and social conditions in West Africa
The Laing Gray Cowan papers include reports, articles, seminar papers, speeches, memoranda, minutes, statistics, and printed matter related to political, economic and social conditions; education; nationalism; and foreign aid in…
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…