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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…
Album contains 188 black and white photographs with borders, mounted double-sided to 23 brown cardstock leaves, each separated with web-patterned tissue guard. Occasional manuscript captions. Photographs range in size, the…
Includes José Varela's description of the islands of Fernando Po and Anabon in the Gulf of Guinea off the African Coast, 1777; instructions given to the commander in charge of…
Theses, studies, notes, writings, and correspondence, relating to the history, philosophy, literature, education, and religion in Egypt, the Arab world, and Turkey
The collection contains single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of the Islamic world, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Gulf States [Qajar], India, North Africa…
Includes portraits of Robert J. Kerner and colleagues or unidentified others, and photographs taken in Africa. Many of the African snapshots are from Fez, French Morocco and from West Africa…
The collection contains annual reports, publications, and ca. 300 maps documenting the activities of the British Cotton Growing Association's activities, primarily in Africa, but also in India and Mesopotamia. The…
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,…
The most important items are known as the Ottoman Missak Archives, consisting of Ottoman, Armenian, French and Greek documents and old family photographs, which trace the history and genealogy of…
