Photograph albums documenting the Prince of Wales's trips to Africa
Object Details
- General note
- M193 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)
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- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 4 Volumes (Photograph albums, 4 x 3 in. - 8 x 6 in. (photographs), 17.5 x 20.5 x 1.75 in. (album))
- Date
- 1928 September - November, 1930 January - April
- Container
- Item M193
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Volumes
- 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
- Four albums containing approximately 155 silver prints, photographs and snapshots from the Prince of Wales's trips to Africa and Egypt, 1928 and 1930, taken by S. Sarkis, the Daily mirror, and others. The photographs include images taken in Cairo, September 1928, one inscribed in ink by the Prince, The old guard at the present Heber Percy in command Reith in the background not at the salute"; crowds watching the arrival of the Prince on board S.S. Malda, Mombassa, Kenya, 28 September 1928 and related images; the Mayor of Nairobi presenting the Prince with an ivory casket, 2 October 1928 (reproduced in Vickers, p. 95, upper right), and related images of tribal chiefs; the Prince presenting his portrait to various different groups of tribesmen (one reproduced in Vickers, p. 92-93); the Prince laying a wreath at the cenotaph, Kampala, Uganda, 17 October 1928, and related images; the Prince and companions at a crocodile shoot, banks of the Upper Nile, 19 October 1928 (one reproduced in Vickers, p. 95, center); the Prince relaxing with Captain Roy Salmon, Uganda, 21 October 1928 (reproduced in Vickers, p. 94), and various other images taken on safari in Tanganyika, November 1928 (one reproduced in Vickers, p. 95, below); some duplicates, &c; sizes approximately 5 by 4 in. to 8 by 6 in. Includes camp photos of Karen Blixen and Bror Blixen.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890733-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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