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
Photograph album documenting George Esterly's Alaska gold rush experience, accompanied by related correspondence, writings, and clippings, and typescript biographies of his father and grandfather. The album contains 185 photographs taken on the way to Alaska, on the trail, and in Wrangell, Skagway and Dawson. The photographs are accompanied by typescript descriptions taken apparently from letters written home to his family, and one newspaper clipping of a printed letter by Esterly describing Alaska. There are snapshots of gold miners on ships, in camps, playing shell games, wandering the streets of Skagway and Dawson, and on the trail. Also depicted are Esterly's Dawson City Electric Light and Water Power Company, women in the towns, "Indian murderers," the "Newman Opera Co.," snowstorms, and the interior of Esterly's cabin. One photograph is by photographer E. A. Hegg., Previously, some photographs from this scrapbook on pgs. 7, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28, 29, 33, 41, 48, and 50 were digitized individually. The scrapbook was digitized in its entirety in 2021 to provide greater context for the individual images and the captions supplied by the creator., and The album is accompanied by a typescript "Narrative of the Expedition, 1904," written by an unidentified person who refers to Esterly as an entrepreneur; a letter written by Fenton Blakemore Whiting, reminiscing about the gold rush and con man Jefferson R. (Soapy) Smith; a letter written by Esterly to Whiting; three clippings; typescript poems about the gold rush; an advertising silk for an entertainment at Dawson; and two sets of typescript autobiographies by Esterly's father and grandfather, describing early days in Wisconsin, and his grandfather's farm machinery inventions.
Description:
George Max Esterly of Wisconsin was an entrepreneur who travelled to Alaska during the 1898 Alaska gold rush. His grandfather George Esterly, moved to Wisconsin in 1836 and was a farm machine inventor. His father George W. Esterly served as Deputy Auditor to the Treasury Department from 1896 to 1910., Manuscript captions on mounts., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2001.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Gold discoveries--Pictorial works, Dawson (Yukon)--Pictorial works, Skagway (Alaska)--Pictorial works, and Wrangell (Alaska)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Esterly, George Max, Esterly, George W., d. 1914, Esterly, George, b. 1809, Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948, Smith, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1898, and Whiting, F. B. (Fenton Blakemore), 1868-1936
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural machinery--Design and construction, Crime--Alaska, Criminals--Alaska, and Frontier and pioneer life--Wisconsin
Sarah Davis's diary records her 1850 trip across the plains with her husband. Entries describe the scenery and trail conditions. Several pages of notes by her husband at the front of the diary indicate he had traveled to California once before in 1849. The journal is accompanied by three photographs of Sarah Davis.
Curtis Granville Jackson scrapbook and papers relating to the Boy Scouts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Collection consists of a scrapbook and other papers. The scrapbook, "My Scouting History," contains autograph and typescript entries, photographs, merit badges and awards, correspondence, and printed ephemera documenting Jackson's membership in an African-American boy scout troop, Troop 42 of Camden, New Jersey from 1937 to 1943. Other papers include one letter, photographs, scarves, and printed material, dating from 1946 to 1965, relating chiefly to Jackson's involvement in Troop 43 of the Boy Scouts of America.
Description:
Purchased from Swann Galleries on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Camden (N.J.) and Camden County (N.J.)
Subject (Name):
Boy Scouts of America and Jackson, Curtis Granville
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--New Jersey--Camden, Boy Scouts of America--African American membership, and Boy Scouts--New Jersey--Camden
Sarah Davis's diary records her 1850 trip across the plains with her husband. Entries describe the scenery and trail conditions. Several pages of notes by her husband at the front of the diary indicate he had traveled to California once before in 1849. The journal is accompanied by three photographs of Sarah Davis.
Curtis Granville Jackson scrapbook and papers relating to the Boy Scouts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | 1-2
Image Count:
122
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection consists of a scrapbook and other papers. The scrapbook, "My Scouting History," contains autograph and typescript entries, photographs, merit badges and awards, correspondence, and printed ephemera documenting Jackson's membership in an African-American boy scout troop, Troop 42 of Camden, New Jersey from 1937 to 1943. Other papers include one letter, photographs, scarves, and printed material, dating from 1946 to 1965, relating chiefly to Jackson's involvement in Troop 43 of the Boy Scouts of America. and Folder 1 of 2 completely digitized.
Description:
Purchased from Swann Galleries on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Camden (N.J.) and Camden County (N.J.)
Subject (Name):
Boy Scouts of America and Jackson, Curtis Granville
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--New Jersey--Camden, Boy Scouts of America--African American membership, and Boy Scouts--New Jersey--Camden
Sarah Davis's diary records her 1850 trip across the plains with her husband. Entries describe the scenery and trail conditions. Several pages of notes by her husband at the front of the diary indicate he had traveled to California once before in 1849. The journal is accompanied by three photographs of Sarah Davis.
Description:
Caption verso: Mrs. Z. P. Davis. and The journal is difficult to read due to the faint pencil lead and the handwriting.