Selected African Holdings

Selected African Holdings

Boston Public Library

Selected items with African Origination


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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.


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: V34180. Image caption: A Beauty Parlor in the Island of Zanzibar, Africa - the Swahili Women Take Great Pains with Their Hair. Multiple statements …


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title supplied by cataloger based on similar image. Part of series: The Keystone eye comfort and depth-perception series. Number on item: EC 47. Image caption: A Zululand style dressed up …


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 2529. Image caption: The Body of Sethos I Who Lived in the 14th Century B.C., Cairo, Egypt. Date supplied by cataloger.


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 8639. Image caption: The Ancient Sphinx and Recent Excavations, Giza, Egypt. Date supplied by cataloger.


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 584 (17014). Image caption: Penguins on Dassen Island near Cape Town, S. Africa. Date supplied by cataloger.


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: V20784. Image caption: The Drums of Africa - in the Village of Ikoko on Lake Ntomba in Belgian Congo. Date supplied by cataloger.


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 20757. Image caption: Across the mammoth pits of South Africa's greatest diamond mine. Pretoria, Transvaal. Date supplied by cataloger.


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 8630. Image caption: West on the Muski, Chief Arabian Thoroughfare of Cairo, Egypt. Date supplied by cataloger.


BPL: Boston Public Library · 1879

Title from item. Number on item: 8639. Image caption: The Ancient Sphinx and Recent Excavations, Giza, Egypt. Date supplied by cataloger.