A Inventory of the African pictorial collection, 1889-1994
A Inventory of the African Pictorial Collection, 1889-1994
Hoover Institution ArchivesStanford University
Stanford, California
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- ByteManagers using OAC finding aid conversion service specifications and Elizabeth Konzak
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Container List
3 prints of Nigeria; 14 prints of Uganda; 1 print and 1 negative of the White Nile in southern Sudan.
3 prints of Zaire; 1 print of Madagascar; 1 print of Rhodesia; 1 unidentified print.
49 prints of Zaire.
10 prints of Rhodesia.
1 print of Tanzania; 7 prints of Zaire; 1 print of South Africa (Cape Province); 1 print of Zambia (Barotseland); 7 prints of Madagascar; 1 print and 1 negative of Southern Rhodesia; 1 print of Northern Rhodesia; 1 print of Nigeria; 1 print of Lord Delamere, Kenya; 1 print of President Philibert Tsiranana, Malagasy; 1 print of Ghana; 3 prints of the Seychelles; 1 print of Ndebele women.
27 prints of Gabon; 1 print of Zaire; 1 print of the Ivory Coast.
32 prints of the Ivory Coast.
85 prints of Rhodesia.
57 prints of Angola; 58 prints Sao Tome.
1 print of Zairel 1 print of Lake Tanganyika; 1 print of Rhodesia; 37 prints of drawings depicting the colonization of Africa by the Portuguese; 1 unidentified print.
51 prints of Mozambique, 2 postcards of Mozambique, 1 print of Guinea; 40 prints of Portuguese officials. 1 print of Angolan officials; 1 print of Guinean official.
1 print of meroe; 2 prints of Zambia; 2 prints of drawings of the Ashanti wars; 1 print of Ethiopia; 1 print of the Ivory Coast; 2 prints of Angola.
58 prints of Rhodesia.
13 prints of Mozambique; 36 prints of Angola; 1 print of the Benguela Railroad; 3 unidentified prints.
1 map of the Nile River; 51 prints of Rhodesia; 1 print of the Grand Vizier of Bauchi, Nigeria; 2 prints of cartoons of Cecil Rhodes; 1 print of Cecil Rhodes; 1 print of Francois Guillard (?); 2 prints of Sir Harry H. Johnston.
1 print of Holman Bentley, Zaire; 6 prints of Zaire; 2 prints of Rhodesia.
2 prints of paintings, South Africa; 8 filmstrips.
61 negatives of scenes, people, and art work of Africa.
22 negatives of African scenes, people, painting.
44 negatives of African scenes, people, painting.
68 prints of Rhodesia, 1971.
24 prints of Angola; 14 prints of Portuguese and African officials; 6 prints of Zaire.
9 prints of Historical Africa
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7 prints of Historical Africa
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14 prints of Historical Africa
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6 prints of The Land
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9 prints of the Land
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10 prints of The Land
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10 prints of African Art and Design.
9 prints of African Art and Design.
11 prints of African Art and Design.
6 prints of the people of Africa.
7 prints of the People of Africa.
9 prints of the Lives and Livelihoods of Africa.
10 prints of the lives and Livelihoods of Africa.
9 prints of the lives and Livelihoods of Africa.
12 prints of the lives and Livelihoods of Africa.
4 prints of African wood carvings from Zaire.
21 prints of historical Africa
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9 prints of the people of Africa.
34 prints of African Art and Design.
20 prints of African Art and Design.
9 prints of the land.
21 prints depicting forces of the Revolutionary Government of Angola, aiding villagers and on military maneuvers.
101 prints depicting daily life, public buildings, cultural and scenic sites in French Africa, including Niger, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, mali Senegal, Central African Republic, Togo, Chad, Congo, Cameroun and Malagasy Republic.
88 prints of Mozambique
80 prints of South Africa, Rhodesia and Namibia, entitled "Southern Africa, the Imprisoned Society," depicting people and events. Compiled and published by the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa London.
12 prints depicting living conditions in Soweto, the area reserved for Black South Africans outside of Johannesburg, October, 1982.
12 color slides depicting various places of interest in Angola, 1975, set in a descriptive catalog.
100 color slides depicting works of African art, based on an exhibition held in the Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, April 6 – October 22, 1967.
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8 prints of posters, newspapers, and books, used for the African Collection brochure, 1984.
3 prints (postcards) relating to the Frente Popular para la Liberacion de Sajuia el Hamra y Rio de Oro (POLISARIO), C. 1981,
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9 prints relating to the POLISARIO movement, c. 1977
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7 prints relating to the POLISARIO movement, c. 1977,
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3 prints depicting the Bechuanaland Trading Association store, Livingstone, c. 1905; the L.F. Moore Chemist shop, Livingstone; and palaver between Lewanika and F. E. Lochner on behalf of the British South Africa Co., 1890.
1 mounted print depicting Vice President George Bush at a State dinner for President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia.
3 prints depicting missionaries preaching in Africa at the turn of the century.
2 prints of the University of Witwatersrand; 1 off-campus anti-apartheid sign. 2 postal cards of Amilcar Cabral. 3 prints of Kaiser engineers construction projects in Africa: 1 in Ghana on the Volta River, 1 in Guinea relating to exploration for iron ore, 1 in the Ivory Coast's hydroelectric projects.
6 postcards, n.d.: 2 depicting Mukaru Ng'Ang'A and Wanyiri Kihoro, political prisoners in Kenya; 2 depicting views of Sierra Leone; 1 depicting villagers assembled for work duty in Zaire during Belgian rule; and 1 advertizing the book Das alte Sudwestafriikaby H. Vedder, a history of Namibia until 1890.
11 greeting cards, 1987, and 17 postcards, n.d., issued by the African national Congress and other anti-apartheid organizations, depicting Nelson and Winnie Mandela and other South African militants; and 1 postcard, n.d., depicting the Palace of justice in Pretoria, South Africa.
1 greeting card, n.d., depicting a mural by Malangatana Ngwenya entitled "The People's Struggle in the Context of Nature"; and 5 postcards, 1979, celebrating the 4th anniversary of Mozambique's independence.
1 print, 1969, depicting Wakamba dancers at the Kenya Safari Club in Nairobi.
2 prints, 1989 depicting President Sam Nujoma's first address in 30 years to the South West Africa People's Organization within the borders of Namibia.
15 prints, 1964-1968, depicting the Peoples Republic of China's influence in Tanzania and Ethiopia and the 1964 Zanzibar coup.
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23 postcards depicting southern African culture and politics, n.d.
39 prints depicting the drought in northern Africa.
36 prints depicting society in rural Ghana.
1 print depicting Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the African National Congress.
3 prints depicting Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELMO) soldiers, 1972.
3 prints of President Issaya Afeworki of Eritrea and other Eritrean officials, 1993; and 5 postcards of scenes in Eritrea.
2 prints of election posters in Walvis Bay, Namibia, 1992.
11 postcards of buildings in Guinea-Bissau, n.d.
9 postcards of scenes from the colonial period in the Ivory Coast, n.d.
8 postcards depicting scenes related to the struggle for independence in Eritrea, n.d.
21 postcards depicting leaders and posters of the African National Congress, 1987-1990.
32 postcards depicting miscellaneous African scenes, many of them from the colonial period.
56 color photographs of election posters and election scenes in South Africa, 1994.
7 postcards depicting the people and culture of Botswana, n.d.
1 postcard of the mosque of Djenne, Mali, 1989.
7 folders of soldiers, weapons, victims, and damage in the Angolan civil war, n.d. Postcard of Jomo Kenyatta, n.d. 8 prints of demonstrations in Uganda against United Nations Intervention in the Congo (Leopoldville), 1965.
Incremental Materials
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