Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

Black and white photograph featuring the canal built at Itu leper colony, run by the Church of Scotland in Calabar, southeast Nigeria. A boat powered by oarsmen with long poles …

View of a backyard and corrugated iron roofs in Adis Abeba, "im Hintergrund das Kaiserinschloss" ("in the background the Empress's palace"). In the backyard a car can be seen, to …

View of people and a caravan of camels and mules in a street.

Black and white photograph showing the entrance to Ituk Mbam general hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society in Uyo state, east Nigeria. The hospital has a wooden gate, and …

"Masai- und Aruscha-Kinder." ("Maasai and Arusha children.") Group portrait of eight African children posing in two rows in front of a thatched hut. The children wear leather clothes and jewelry. …

Black and white photograph of two female missionaries, workers at the Mary Slessor School in modern Enugu state, Nigeria. Miss Elkin stands on the left in a patterned dress and …

"Kostschülerinnen in Schira" ("Boarding school girls in Shira"). Group portrait of 14 African young women and girls posing in two rows. The ones in front are sitting, the others standing. …

"Der Meruberg vom Kilimandjaro (Schira) aus gesehen." ("Meru Mountain seen from Kilimanjaro (Shira).") Photograph of two African men standing in a garden. They hold buckets. In the background Mount Meru …

Black and white photograph taken at the hospital run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society at Ama Achara, southeast Nigeria. The image shows Emily Godfrey, first Matron of the hospital, …

Black and white lantern slide featuring a group portrait of an Askari military band. Large drums are arranged on the ground at the front of the picture. More senior officers …