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Africa, East -- Description and travel.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Count Samuel Teleki East African diaries, in Hungarian, 1886-95; with English translations, 1961-1965

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 94 large
Scope and Contents Samuel Teleki led an expedition to East Africa, 1886-1889, during which he discovered Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie in Kenya and Ethiopia. He also led a second tour of East Africa, 1893. The papers include two diaries of Teleki's East African expeditions of 1886-89, photographs, and microcopies from the Vienna Staatsarchiv of Teleki's letters and reports from Africa about the expedition of 1886-1889, sent to Crown Prince Rudolf. The diary is in Hungarian, German, and Swahili, and a full...
Dates: 1886-1895; 1961-1965

Webster family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 242 large
Scope and Contents Collection of Webster family correspondence totaling 59 letters, dating from May 1925 to December 1945. The collection includes letters written by the Webster sisters living and working is East Africa to their other sisters in England. Jessie Webster writes from Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya, where she works with the Old East African Trading Company, among other shipping companies and businesses. Queenie writes from Johannesburg, and Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, where she and her husband...
Dates: 1925-1945