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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…
Collection includes audio tapes and reels from Murphy’s dissertation fieldwork among the Kpelle for 13 months in 1973-74; fieldwork in Liberia in 1971; and fieldwork in Sierra Leone among the…
Includes photographs, oral history transcripts, printed materials, and artifacts such as iron ore, slag, smelted iron, and furnace wall samples, most relating to time as Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria…
French West and North Africa photograph album, circa 1920s-1930s
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…
The collection contains a magazine for B’nai B’rith, a Jewish welfare organisation, as well as a Luftwaffe emblem which German soldiers wore on the front of their cap
At the time of the Musee National N'Djamena of African Modern Art establishment, it had four rooms for prehistory, protohistory, archives, folk arts, crafts and traditions. The prehistory room, at least in 1965,…
The museum displays arts and traditions of country through collections of pottery, coins, ritual masks, and traditional musical instruments. In a colonial villa in the rue du Languedoc, this museum…
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…
The Duke Amandla Chorus records span 2016-2017 and include images and moving image recordings of various performances, group photographs, lyrics, meeting minutes, a rehearsal schedule, and the Duke Amandla Chorus…