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.
In ink on verso below newspaper clipping: 1891., In pencil on verso: Archibald Campbell Niven. / Taken Dec. 1887. / Born Apr. 28 1871 Dec 1887 / April 28, 1871., Newspaper clippin affixed to verso at bottom., and Photographer's imprint on recto and verso.
Subject (Name):
Niven, Archibald C. (Archibald Campbell), 1803-1882
In pencil on verso: K [struck through] Catherine Kerlin / Amos - Isabel / Morristown / Day engagement announced / 1935 Spring. and Printed on verso: 13.