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Africa

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Locator = 31.791702;-7.092620,Other = My Geo Position,Created For = Africa

Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:

Elephant, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3414
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two hunters sitting on a dead elephant with a third man standing behind it on the plains in Africa in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Flat Top Thorn Tree, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3275
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a flat top thorn tree on the savannah in [Africa] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Hartebeest Supposed Shorthorn, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/102
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a supposed Shorthorn Hartebeest grazing in a paddock in Africa in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Hippo - Male, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3219
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a male hippo lying on a rock in a river with a group of African men standing in the background in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Journal account of departure of Eoghan Carmichael's departure for Africa, 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/1
Scope and Contents

Journal account written by Alexander Carmichael of the departure of his son Eoghan for Africa describing seeing him off at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, noting who met him in London and that he set sail on the 'SS Scot' from London, England for Chinde, East Africa [Mozambique]. Of his departure, Carmichael writes 'Poor darling boy! We shall not see him at the soonest for five years - perhaps never. God alone knows. This is the first break in the family.'

Dates: 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893

Live Fence Poles and Police, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/994
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an African policeman with his bicycle standing next to an electrified fence in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Man Hunting Antelopes in Africa, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/340
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man crouching behind a rock outcroping getting ready to shoot some antelopes in Africa in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Map of Africa Showing the Distribution of the TseTse-Flies As At Present Known, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2058
Scope and Contents

Map of Africa showing the distribution areas of the TseTse flies 'as at present known.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Mashona Cattle, Africa, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2879
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a herd of Mashona cattle on the plains in Africa with four men standing amongst them in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Mashonas Lucky Jim Mine, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/972
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of Mashona men standing in front of thatched huts at the Lucky Jim mine in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s