Collection of photographs relating to European colonization in Africa
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photograph albums, loose photographs, memorabilia and published material that document a European colonialist perspective of Africa and Egypt, and document both African peoples and European colonizers. Locations depicted in the photographs include Cameroon, Dar es Salaam, Egypt, Kenya, Namibia, Sudan, Tanga, Zambia, other regions throughout Africa, as well as some in Europe.
Identified photographers in this collection include Alfredo Augusto Freire de Andrade, Walther Dobbertin, Paul Karl Lieberenz, and Carl von Vincenti. The bulk of photographs in the collection are created by unidentified photographers.
Dates
- circa 1890s-1930s
Creator
Language of Materials
In English, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Collection of photographs relating to European colonization in Africa is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Maggs Brothers Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2012.
Arrangement
Organized into seven series: I. Southern Africa, 1890 - 1929. II. Central Africa, circa 1918. III. East Africa, 1887 - 2005. IV. West Africa, 1880 - 1934. V. North Africa, 1904 - 1935. VI. Travel in Africa and Egypt, 1910 - 1920. VII. Colonial documentation of Africa, 1910 - 1933.
Extent
40.25 Linear Feet (38 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.EuropeancolonizationinAfricaphotographs
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection or revisions in arrangement and description.
Information included in the Content Description note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Portions of description for this collection have been directly repurposed from description supplied with the collection upon its receipt. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
Upon receipt, the collection was titled "From Cape to Cairo collection," as assigned by Humphrey Winterton and Maggs Brothers. The collection title was changed during processing in 2020.
- Title
- Guide to the Collection of photographs relating to European colonization in Africa
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Jessica Tai
- Date
- May 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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