Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

University of Southern California

Selected items with African Origination


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USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

Panoramic view of Antsirabe. Page 1: Vohitra mountain. Plains, fields, buildings. Page 2: Plains, fields, buildings. "Panorama Antsirabe decembre 1922" ("Panoramic view Antsirabe December 1922"). Hotel and the Church to …


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

"Afrikanische Reisegesellschaft" ("African travel party"). Mrs. Blumer sitting in a two-wheeled cart. Mr. Blumer and two children standing next to her. Another European man and a girl in the middle. …


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

"Konferensen 1922" ("Conference 1922"). There are about 60 missionaries gathered at this conference.


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

“Mission School and [?] in Makoga, 1922.” Group portrait outside the school house. A large group in indigenous children sit on the ground whilst behind them stand a row of …


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

Note translation: The caption is very difficult to interpret.....the reference to Saltpond as the location is probably correct, but the reference to Accra is a book with seven seals, as …


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

“Bride price – a safeguard against capricious divorce, is paid. Even an old grandfather like this old man may buy a young girl. This however changed as the young folk …


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

Portrait of the pupils of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Samkita. Miss Madeleine Casalis is standing in the middle. She gets married with …


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

“No comment on native life is complete without mention of the drudgery of the African womens lives. They do all the garden work, almost all the building & all the …


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

“Grandpa Kioja, with two of his several sons and grandchildren bananas and yams in background. Men like these cleared the mission land and put up huts. The Mwimbe people are …


USC: University of Southern California · 1922 English

“…the Dodge we had for the first 4 years.” Portrait of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, Margaret Irvine and Anthony Irvine sitting in a car at the back of the family …