Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, 1880-1946, photographer. Photographs of a 1930 expedition to Uganda, Eastern Belgian Congo, and the Sudan to collect zoological and botanical specimens for the British Museum of Natural History
Object Details
- General note
- Ph012 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
- 242 Photographs (Black-and-white photographs, 2.5 x 3.25 in. - 8.5 in. x 6 in. (photographs), 14.5 in. x 10.75 in. x 2 (album))
- Date
- 1930
- Container
- Item Ph012
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- 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
- A newspaper article about the expedition tipped in. Descriptions detail a combination of location and subject matter. Photographs depict terrain (coast lines of lakes and rivers), vegetation, hunters with game shot, candid images of local staffing (i.e. gun bearers, porters) and hunters, members of local tribes, group portraits of "half-pygmies" from Ruwenziri [Ruwenzori?] mountains, members of expedition (some identified),and specimen preparation. Sometimes descriptions include elevation. Many of the photographs lack captions. Locations include Fort Portal, Semliki River, Uganda; Belgian Congo; Luhulu River; Morocco (1931); Sudan, Dongola [Dunqulah] (1932).
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890753-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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