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1st NRR Kenya and Abyssinia Advance into Ethiopia photograph album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 750
Scope and Contents
1st NRR Kenya and Abyssinia Advance into Ethiopia photograph album consists of 81 photographs in corners mount on 22 album leaves. The images depict white and Black soldiers, African people, wildlife, cattle, village life, and some photographs of killed people. Locations photographs include Nairobi, the Rift Valley in Kenya, Kolbio, Bardera, Tana River, Moyale, Yavello, Soropa, Giarso, Chinchilla, and the Alghe Forest.
Dates:
1941 January-June
Sierra Leone railway construction photograph album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 751
Scope and Contents
The Sierra Leone railway construction photograph album consists of 26 photographs mounted in an album and 16 laid-in loose photographs. Photographs document the construction of the Sierra Leone railway and members of the company. Marginalia identify a white men as "B. T-Y" and "Messrs. Boyle & Andrews." Locations identified include the Waterloo station, Taja permanent bridge, Tabe station, Mano river, and Malema Ferry (River Moa). Two laid-in photographs depict white and Black men...
Dates:
approximately 1890-1910