Album of photographic prints and drawings probably compiled by Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham that documents his inspection tour of British colonial surveying departments in Africa for the Colonial Survey Committee, February 1929 to November 1929., Images that depict locations in individual colonies are often preceded in the album by a map of the region with annotations that trace the route of the tour. Colonies and regions documented include Egypt, Gold Coast (Ghana), Kenya, Nigeria, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar. Images include views of landscapes, communities, and informal portraits of members of the inspection tour party, as well as white and black Africans., and The album includes some images created earlier than the tour, including an informal portrait of members of the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission in 1927, as well as several photograph postcards depicting black Africans and places in Kenya created and distributed by Kodak (East Africa) Limited.
Description:
Brigadier Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham (1878-1946) served in the South African War and World War I, and as Director-General of the General Ordinance Survey of Great Britain, 1930-1935., Photographic prints in the album are 11 x 16 cm. and smaller., Purchased from McBlain Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007., and Title from cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa--Pictorial works, Egypt--Pictorial works, Ghana--Pictorial works, Kenya--Pictorial works, Malawi--Pictorial works, Nigeria--Pictorial works, Sierra Leone--Pictorial works, Sudan--Pictorial works, Tanzania--Pictorial works, Uganda--Pictorial works, Zanzibar--Pictorial works, and Zimbabwe--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Eastman Kodak Company, Great Britain.--Colonial Survey Committee, and Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd,--1878-1946
Subject (Topic):
Blacks--Africa--Pictorial works, Surveying--Africa--Pictorial works, and Whites--Africa--Pictorial works
Arthur Woods Wang photographs and profiles of authors and ranchers
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
A collection of 78 photographs, in three volumes, of authors, including Mark Van Doren, Roland Barthes, Elie Weisel, Arna Bontemps, Alger Hiss, Wole Soyinka, Arthur Kopit, and Eric Bentley. A fourth volume contains 17 photographs of Montana ranchers and their family members. Three typescript profiles by Wang - of Wesley Towner, Kingsley Martin, and Ted Joans - are included in a separate box.
Scrapbook made by Libbie Maltbie following a vacation trip to Alaska in August, 1909. Maltbie and her husband, Arthur L. Maltbie, and two friends, Hiland P. and Mary Lockwood, travelled to Alaska on the steamship City of Seattle, leaving Seattle, Washington, on August 4, 1909, passing among the islands of southeastern Alaska to Skagway, and returning on the Pacific side, stopping at Sitka, and reaching Seattle on August 15. The scrapbook contains mostly postcards, printed illustrations, and photographs taken by Arthur L. Maltbie, showing towns visited, buildings, natural features, and Indian totem poles and other aspects of Indian life. Photographs, some with the travelers pictured, are captioned in holograph by Libbie Maltbie. Also present are a printed map showing steamship routes, published by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company; a few printed items relating to the City of Seattle; and a narrative written by Maltbie, holograph, 15 p., briefly describing the trip.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
City of Seattle (Ship), Lockwood, Hiland P, Lockwood, Mary, Maltbie, Albert L.,--b. 1866, Maltbie, Libbie, and Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Subject (Topic):
Alaska--History--Pictorial works and Postcards--Alaska--History--20th century
Album wrapped in tissu de Provence; contains photographs of Murphy family in Antibes, Saint-Tropez, Villard-de-Lans (France); Montana-Vermala (Switzerland); Ramgut (Austria); Baoth at school in Neubeuern, (Rosenheim, Germany); Gerald, Sara, Honoria and Ba
Subject (Name):
Murphy, Baoth, Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964, Murphy, Honoria, Murphy, Patrick, 1920-1937, and Murphy, Sara
Album wrapped in tissu de Provence; contains photographs of Murphy family at Hôtel Cap d'Antibes and Villa America, Saint-Cloud (France); Chateau-d'Oex (Switzerland); Madeira (Portugal); Baden-Baden (Germany); Beverly Hills (California); attending Antonia
Description:
Photographs of Hemingway, Hadley, and Bumby removed by Murphy family.
Subject (Name):
Murphy, Baoth, Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964, Murphy, Honoria, Murphy, Patrick, 1920-1937, and Murphy, Sara