George Fearing Hollis Papers
Papers of George Fearing Hollis, Union Naval officer (1861-1865) and United States Consul to Cape Town, South Africa (1888-1893). The papers consist mainly of correspondence Hollis wrote to his mother…
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African pictorial collection
Photographs, postcards, and slides, depicting scenes of daily life, cultural and historical sites, prominent personalities, and works of art in various countries of Africa
Wright (Richard R., Jr.) films
The Richard R. Wright Jr. films comprise a collection of 13 moving images created circa the 1920s through the 1960s. Richard Robert Wright Jr. (1878-1967) was an African American sociologist,…
British Association South Africa Photograph Album, 1905.
241 black and white photographs in large album commemorating the British Association for the Advancement of Science's meeting in South Africa. Images feature shots from the journey to and from…
South Africa Photograph Album, ca. 1892.
Album contains one large photograph by George Washington Wilson of the A.M.S. Dunottar Castle at Cape Town, 51 smaller photographs of view of South Africa with captions in English, and…
Poland. Konsulat (Cape Town) miscellaneous records
Correspondence, clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and printed matter, relating to Polish commercial interests, emigre organizations, fund raising for war relief, and consular activity in South Africa
South Africa Subject Collection, ca. late 1800s-1939
Collection contains printed ephemera relating to South Africa, including: maps of Cape Town area and South African Republic; guidebooks to Pretoria and South Africa; and a booklet on medicinal springs
J.E. Middlebrook South African souvenir, 1898
The fifty-two platinotypes--prints made from a photographic process using ferric oxalate in combination with platinum salts deposited directly on the paper (rather than in an emulsion like the silver print…
South Africa – Topographic Maps
The collection consists of maps of Luashi, Kinda, Bukama, Sampwe, Kolwezi, Jadotville, Kienge, Musokotanda, Ngalu, Elisabethville, Mufulir, Ndola, Ndabal, Umtal, Tzaneen, Johannesburg, Standerton, Kroonstad, Newcastle, Mbaban, Vryheid, Nongom, Alexander Bay,…
Africa, South – Topographic Maps
Maps of Luashi, Kinda, Bukama, Sampwe, Kolwezi, Jadotville, Kienge, Musokotanda, Ngula, Elisabethville, Mufulira, Ndola, Ndabala, Umtali, Tzaneen, Johannesburg, Standerton, Kroonstad, Newcastle, Mbabane, Vryheid, Nongoma, Alexander Bay, Holgat, Springbok, Garies, Lepelfontein,…