Boats and boating - Africa
Cowan, James Robson, 1918-2006 :[Drawings in Africa. 1940s]
Date: 1940 - 1946
By: Cowan, James Robson, 1918-2006; Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010
Reference: A-433-026/032
Description: Includes: 026. Boat with two sails, manned by three African men 027. Boat with two sails, manned by three African men 028. Two sailing boats with men in fezes. 029. Portrait of an African man 030. Sailing boat with a triangular sail off a coast 031. Three pencil landscape sketches 032. Girl studying an African jar Quantity: 7 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings, and one photograph, sizes varying
Lantern slides of Africa
Date: [1930s?]
From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens
Reference: PA11-272
Description: 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