Item #17589 South Africa Travel Scrapbook and Photo Album. Photo Album South Africa.
South Africa Travel Scrapbook and Photo Album
South Africa Travel Scrapbook and Photo Album

South Africa Travel Scrapbook and Photo Album

South Africa, Photo Album

Photo Album

This scrapbook and Photo Album follows the travels of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Langwill, likely Americans, living in Cape Town and Paarl, South Africa. Hardcover Scrapbook includes 55 b&w photos that measure 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ (some are from pre-printed souvenir sets); 13 b&w photos that measure 2 ½ x 4 ½; 15 real photo postcards; 79 b&w and color clippings from magazine (photos, illustrations from photos, maps); 2 pamphlets; 1 folding map; 2 newspaper clippings; 8 pages of original typed journal entries describing places and the trip. Some interesting photos show black South African young boys and girls in front of their local school, some don't even have shoes.

Photos and ephemera in this album show that Mr. and Mrs. Langwill traveled to Cape Town in 1941 (when they moved to the city), a trip to Victoria Falls in Zambia and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1944, Oudtshoorn, South Africa in 1946 and another trip to Victoria Falls in 1952. There are also magazine clippings depicting scenes from London and the Grand Canyon. The first typed journal is titled: Trip to Victoria Falls and Southern Rhodesia - July 2 to 25, 1944. It starts out: Month after month we had postponed our long-planned trip because of war restrictions on travel. At last, however, we decided to go in spite of everything. The journal describes the travelers celebrating 4th of July in Mafeking (now Mahikeng), South Africa, traveling through the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana), getting a glimpse of the queer looking baobab trees, their arrival at the luxurious Victoria Falls Hotel, descending 250 steps to see Victoria Falls, the lunar rainbow seen at the Falls when in moonlight, visits to Salisbury and Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia, and the gold mines of Johannsburg. Photos and postcards depict scenery from their trips. A detailed travel scrapbook from the WWII era. Photos are corner mounted and ephemera is tipped or taped in. Album covers are brown cloth and have a world map tipped onto the front; covers measure 10" x 13". Covers have light wear; magazine and newspaper clippings have light to moderate toning; ephemera has light soiling; the 55 photos are clean and in good condition. Condition good to very good.

Item #17589

Price: $880.00