H. M. Stanley card collectors album
Object Details
- General note
- A photograph / card collectors album, consisting of card t. p. with colored chromo-lithograph view, eight further card leaves with colored chromo-lithograph views surrounding single large apertures, and eight blank card leaves (two with a single aperture, the remaining with four each). Card leaves with gilt edges modern red calf backed mottled boards. M175 is the accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
- 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 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 Album (Albums (books); Advertising cards, 11.25 x 2 in.)
- Date
- circa 1890
- Container
- Item M175
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Albums
- 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
- Presumably designed for a "cigarette-card" type promotion where the intention was for a series of portrait cards to be collected and inserted in the album. The apertures though are larger than those fitting the standard "cigarette cards" being more of the size of "carte de visite" portrait photographs. The scenes depicted are all from Stanley's travels namely: "Banks of the Victoria Nyanza", "Mouth of the Congo", "Stanley Falls", "Wadelai, Residence of Emin Pasha", "Native Village on the Victoria Nyanza", "Cabinda on the Congo", "Mombassa, Port for Mails", "Zanzibar", and "The Tankanjika River", "Street of Mangela."
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890727-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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