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Africa, East

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

A Native Bazaar in the Highlands, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2196
Scope and Contents

Photograph of African men and women shopping at a bazaar with Indian traders in the Highlands of East Africa in the early 20th century. The text beneath the image notes, 'Notice the typical corrugated iron buildings of the Indian traders. The woman in the centre is wrapping round herself a Swahili robe of Manchester cotton. There are about 100 different patterns each of which has a special native name.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

A Troop of Sable Antelope on the Move, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2190
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a herd of Sable antelope running across the wooded savannah in East Africa in the 19th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

African [Kenyan?] Village of Thatched Roofed Houses, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2192
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an African [Kenyan?] village of thatched roof houses in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

British East Africa, Native Humped Cattle, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/104
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a tribesman herding native Humped cattle in British East Africa in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

East African Sheep, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1709
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a small flock of East African sheep grazing in the grasslands in the early 20th century

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Eland cow, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/24
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a dead Eland cow (a plains antelope from Eastern and Southern Africa) lying in the brush.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

German East Africa Cattle [Col?], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2811
Scope and Contents

Photograph of German East Africa cattle [col?] standing on the plainds in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

[Greater Kudu], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1147
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Greater Kudu antelope lying on the ground in the woodlands of eastern or southern Africa in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

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

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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