Selected African Holdings

Selected African Holdings

Boston Public Library

Selected items with African Origination

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Shepheard's Hôtel

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1888

Title from item. Mounted in untitled album. Number in negative: 437. J. P. Sebah Date supplied by cataloger.

Egypt and the basin of the Nile

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1885

Relief shown by hachures. Contains inset of the Nile Delta. On two sheets. With (on verso): Johnston's Geographical Handbooks: Egypt. MB (BRL) constructed by W. & A.K. Johnston.

Birds eye view of the Soudan

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1885

Bird's-eye view of Sudan and Egypt from the east, showing Cairo to Khartoum. Relief shown pictorially. Includes table of distances. "Supplement given away with the Weekly Freeman 21st March, 1885."

Carte de la partie sud-ouest de la province d'Oran et des régions voisines du Maroc

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1881

Covers northwestern Algeria and eastern Morocco. Relief shown by hachures. "Supplement du journal l'Illustration no. 2016 - 15 Octobre 1881." gravé par E. Morieu ; Fernique sc.

Africa, east coast, Brava Harbor

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1881

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. surveyed by Capt. Föh of the German Bark Amanda & Elisabeth 1880

Arabic school in Cairo, Egypt

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 9715. Image caption: Arabic School Learning the Koran, Egypt. Date supplied by cataloger.

A native court in Ujiji, Tanganyika Territory, Africa

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 20767. Date supplied by cataloger.

An Arab woman in street costume, Algiers, Algeria

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 33382. Image caption: Turbaned Men and Veiled Women Crowd this Narrow Street in the Arab Quarter of Algiers, Algeria. Date supplied by cataloger.

Beside the Avenue of Sphinxes. Temple of Karnak

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 33736. Image caption: An Egyptian Snake Charmer Plies His Trade Beside the Avenue of Sphinxes, Temple of Karnak, Thebes, Egypt. Date supplied by cataloger.

Pompey's pillar and sphinxes, Alexandria, Egypt

BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 33717. Image caption: Pompey's Pillar, a Landmark for Sailors, and Sphinxes (Recently Unearthed), Alexandria, Egypt. Date supplied by cataloger.