Large Women’s Army Corps photo album depicting the overseas enlistment of an American servicewoman stationed in Egypt during the transition from wartime operations to postwar occupation, 1946 to 1947. Pictured in combat training with rifles, at leisure, among identified companions, and both wartime facilities and tourist institutions, the album records.....
Large missionary lantern slide archive documenting Protestant evangelical activity and African village life in West Africa during the early twentieth century, most plausibly within the Upper Guinea Coast region encompassing present day Sierra Leone or Liberia. The photographs record interactions between European or American missionaries and local communities during a......
Operation Deep Freeze U.S. Navy photo archive documenting the preparation and execution of the first flight from Africa to Antarctica, September 27 to October 1, 1963, a 4,700-mile airlift that demonstrated the expanding reach of the American Antarctic logistics network. The flight occurred as the United States was transforming its.....
Burton, Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar. 1856. Published in 1856, this narrative records Burton’s expedition to Harar, a walled Muslim city in present-day Ethiopia that had long prohibited Christian entry and was widely believed to be inaccessible to Europeans. At a moment when.....
[Colonialism][Religion] Archive of letters by Dr. John A. Reuling recording his 1946 missionary work in Africa, across mid-century Portuguese, Belgian, British, and South African colonial systems, where evangelism was a tool of westernization and colonialism alongside education, public health, and agricultural training. Written during Reuling’s first year as Africa Secretary.....
South African apartheid photo archive belonging to "M. Adams" documenting the segregated community of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, through vernacular photographs capturing sanitation, labor, schooling, health care, and everyday life through portraiture and street photography. A contemporary handwritten inventory headed “Slums of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, S.A.” links individual photographs to subjects.....
German colonial forces operating in German South West Africa, present day Namibia, execution photograph documenting colonial military punishment of African prisoners during the early period of German imperial rule, circa 1896. The image records a scene of public hanging in which numerous African men appear suspended from a gallows while.....
Burton, Richard Francis. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa. Or, a Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms, 1865, linguistic and cultural compilation assembled by the British explorer and scholar whose travels and writings contributed significantly to nineteenth century European knowledge of Africa and the Middle East. Burton’s work.....
Langwill, J. P. and Mrs. J. P. Photo album and travel scrapbook, 1941 to 1952, a multi format record of civilian travel through southern Africa during and immediately after World War II, preserving firsthand observations of colonial infrastructure, landscape, and local communities. Compiled by an American couple residing in Cape.....
Colonial Uganda novel by Akiki K. Nyabongo, published in 1935, documenting an African aristocrat's literary response to missionary education, colonial rule, and the cultural transformations reshaping East Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on Nyabongo's own background as a prince of the Tooro Kingdom, the novel.....
English woman’s photo album documenting a year of work and travel in Apartheid era South Africa and Southern Rhodesia in 1954-1955, during a time when white colonies were well established during the consolidation of apartheid. Compiled by an English woman attached to the Over-Seas League, Torquay branch, and employed for.....
French military photo album tracing the movement of French servicemen from infantry instruction at Saint-Maixent-l’École into North African field service during the Algerian War era, with sustained documentation of rallye exercises, convoy organization, patrol work, barracks labor, communications equipment, and winter combat preparation. The album’s training sequences include helmeted soldiers.....
Belgian Congo travel and colonial encounter photo archive, June 1929, documenting Western movement through river settlements, Congolese communities, and transport corridors during the late 1920s expansion of Belgian colonial administration. The archive dates to the period after Belgium took over the Congo Free State in 1908 and after Leopoldville became.....
Early twentieth century travel photo album, compiled by “Jake,”documents the working life and global mobility of a merchant ship crewman during the 1930s and 1940s, with sustained visual attention to port cities across Africa, the Americas, and the United States. The album supports research into maritime labor, informal American commercial.....
Belgian Congo photo archive documenting colonialism and segregated settlement in Paulis, Jadotville, and at Kiubo Falls in 1946-1947, while Belgian rule expanded displacing Congolese communities from political power and control over local resources. Made by an unidentified traveler or colonial observer, the group moves between industrial sites, river traffic, town.....
French Algeria real photo postcard archive documenting Bastille Day celebrations in Blida during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, recording the ceremonial display through which the French colonial state projected military authority in Algeria. The photographs center upon the annual 14 July review attended by General Marie Charles "Bruno".....
French Colonized Algeria and North African Presence documented through a multi-generational family photo archive centered on Pierre Bove’s service as a tank commander and later presence within French military or transport facilities in North Africa, recording the movement of one family across metropolitan France, World War II service, and the.....
De Havilland Vampire jet photographs documenting French Air Force training, accident inspection, and air base control at Meknès, Morocco, in the years immediately following Moroccan independence, with direct evidence of how Base École 708 recorded aircraft damage, runway incidents, and jet operations within the shrinking French military presence in North.....
[African American] [Slavery] [Military] Southard, Samuel L., Secretary of the Navy. Recaptured Africans: Letter From the Secretary of the Navy, Transmitting the Information Required by a Resolution of the House of Representatives…in Relation to the Present Condition and Probable Annual Expense of the United States Agency for Recaptured Africans on.....
African press photo archive credited on the versos to Tomas D.W. Friedmann, documenting images of anticolonial war, apartheid labor, urban growth, and locals across Africa in 1970. These press photos translated events in Angola, South Africa, Nigeria, and Tunisia into public facing articles for western audiences. At the time of.....
Imperial war stereoview cards from the Second Boer War, documenting British military transport, entrenchment, artillery deployment, refugee evacuation, and camp provisioning in South Africa, circa 1899 to 1900. Published for commercial circulation, the cards include infantry crossing rivers under observation, Royal Engineers rebuilding destroyed transport routes, naval guns hauled inland.....
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta. West African Studies, 1901, advances a detailed account of West African societies, religious systems, and legal structures based on fieldwork conducted during her travels between 1894 and 1895, offering a perspective that challenged prevailing European assumptions about African cultures. Kingsley’s writing addressed topics including property systems, religion.....
American serviceman’s Sgt. T. Mansker’s photo album, compiled from experience moving between France and French colonial Algeria, circa 1942-1945, A majority of the approx. 270 photographs take place in wartime Algeria under Allied military presence in French colonial Algeria. The album centers on occupied Algerian street life, public space, transport.....
International travel and native documentation photograph album, circa 1918 to 1930, documenting how an English speaking group encountered Māori New Zealand, Atlantic Africa, Chile, California, and the Panama Canal during the golden age of long distance steamship travel and an era of Western imperial expansion across the globe. Photographs record.....
Belgian Congo colonial residence and indigenous locals photo archive documenting European family life, Congolese communities, river navigation, agricultural districts, and travel in the eastern colony, circa 1920s to 1930s. The photographs center on Kabalo and related routes through Ituri and Lubero, regions integrated into Belgian administration through railways, river steamers.....
