African game photographs, primarily showing game shot in the field, possibly in Rhodesia
Object Details
- General note
- Anonymous. No labels. Inside the back cover is the inscription "With best wishes. March 16th 1911. "Large, oblong album containing about 207 photographsPh001 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 9: Photographs
- Extent
- 1 Album (Photograph albums, 4.25 x 3.75 in. (photographs), 12.5 x 10 x 2 in. (album))
- Date
- circa 1911
- Container
- Item Ph001
- 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
- The album documents unidentified individuals likely on safari in Rhodesia. Photographs includes candid images of individuals and groups, hunters with game shot in the field, campsites, and members of local tribes at work. Most photographs contain images of game in the field, such as elephants, rhino, buffalo, sable, greater kudu, lion, leopard, hippopotamus, crocodiles, and others. Photographs do not include captions. There is a note inside the cover that states, "With best wishes, March 16th, 1911."
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890751-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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