Africa -- Description and travel.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Bayard Taylor papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-18-1169
Abstract
Correspondence, journals, notebooks, scrapbooks, manuscripts, diaries, clippings, articles, sketches, and autobiographical notes pertaining to Taylor's life as a writer and traveler in North Africa, Scandinavia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Dates:
1837-1878.
Charles Baskerville papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4911
Scope and content
Correspondence, diaries, paintings, drawings, photographs, photographs of portraits and paintings, circus-themed sketches and paintings, scrapbooks of clippings and ephemera, scrapbooks of artwork, medals earned by Baskerville in World War I, early illustrations for columns in The New Yorker magazine, videocassettes, and other materials relating to Baskerville's career as a painter, portrait painter, and world traveler, especially pertaining to Bali, Nepal, India, Italy, Sicily, Africa, and...
Dates:
ca. 1907-1977.
Charles Hall materials documenting diamond mining in the Portuguese Angola
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065346367]
Identifier: 6430
Scope and Contents
Collection contains snapshots of the Belgian Congo (1924); passports; driver's license; travel papers; photographs of Sabena planes (1926); a notebook containing notes of mines and operation; aerial map of the Belgian Congo; a guide to pronunciation of Congo names; letters to the editor of Argosy, Matthew White, describing the difficulties, disasters, weather, and working conditions in Loace, Portuguese Angola; official reports for the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola; article "Industrial...
Dates:
1923-1926.
James Morgan Hart papers
Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065265021]
Identifier: 14-18-65
Abstract
Includes letters from scholars relating to the study of languages and literature, particularly Old English, Celtic, and German, and to scholarly language journals and associations; from educators relating to university patterns and policies at Cornell; from editors concerning Hart's publications; from Mrs. Bayard Taylor regarding her husband's papers; autographed letters from Louisa May Alcott, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Hamilton Fish, Henry James, Henry W. Longfellow, Lord Russell, and others...
Dates:
1856-1916.