Lantern slides of Africa

Lantern slides of Africa, including identifiable places and scenes in Egypt, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa. The images were taken by unidentified photographers, probably in the 1930s. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the location or subject. Seven of the copy images are from a larger numbered sequence of commercial slides.

The images include:

- Scenes in African villages and rural locations showing: herding of cattle, use of mortar and pestle, streets with dwellings, building of a hut, weaving, drying of crocodile skin, markets, man holding snakes, and people carrying bowls on their heads.

- Members of various African tribes, including the Dinka people of Sudan and the Kikuyu people of Kenya (also known as Agikuyu).

- Ruins of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe.

- Colonial buildings, including the Maputo Railway Station (Mozambique).

- Coconut and other palms, banana, and baobab trees.

- Camels being ridden, pulling wagons with barrels, or resting.

- Sisal being produced, including stripping and drying of the fibre.

- Scenes in Egypt, including the pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza, Aswan Dam, the Cairo Museum, streets and buildings of Cairo, and wharfs and boats along the Nile.

- The Amphitheatre in the Drakensberg Range in South Africa.

Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 10

Quantity: 108 b&w lantern slide(s) comprising 100 original b&w images (one with colour tinting), and 8 copy b&w images.

Physical Description: Lantern slides