Commemorative octagonal china plate celebrating Stanley's arrival at Cape Town en route to the Congo with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887
Object Details
- General note
- Off-white in color.
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
- See more items in
- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 2: Works of Art
- Extent
- 1 Item (Artifacts (object genre), 9.5 in. (diameter))
- Date
- 1887
- Container
- Item Art052
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- The plate is decorated with portraits of Stanley and Emin Pasha, vignettes, map and lettering, which reads as follows and is attributed to the Birmingham Daily Post, "H M Stanley arrived at Cape Town Mar 10th with the Emin Pasha (sic) Relief Expedition, and leaves this afternoon, timed to reach the Congo on the18th. inst."
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890668-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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