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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…
Relates to political and economic conditions in French Somaliland and its role in international affairs, primarily during the period 1967-1977. Originally published under the title A Djibouti avec les Afars…
The photos were taken by photographers from the film section for Eastern Africa (Reparto Fotocinematografico A[frica] O[rientale] of the Istituto Luce, a government agency created in 1924 to promote the…
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 David D. Laitin papers include materials collected over decades, from the time Laitin was a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s through the 2000s. The materials primarily relate to…
Historical maps of Africa, African West Coast, Angola, Bathurst Gambia, Bophuthatswana, Bechaunaland, Central Africa, Congo River, Egypt, Eritrea, Gold Coast Colony, Hausaland, Madagascar, Morocco, Namibia, Red Sea, Sierra Leone, Somali…
Ethnic groups map
Shaded relief maps
The collection consists of country, town plans, city, topographic, regional, thematic and historical maps
Series 2201, U.S. Army Map Service. Original scale 1:2,000,000. Complete collection with clickable map.