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 · 1918 English

“I was given my site [for a carrier hospital]. This was part of it. I got my boys to clean it of brush. Note the bamboo.” Landscape view showing men …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Captured cattle being driven in.” Landscape view showing cattle and horseman passing a man at a fence. This scene is at the Carrier Hospital at Ancuabe. ❧ This image is …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Portuguese natives getting water in an almost dried up hole.” Landscape view showing thick vegetation and an indigenous man gathering water in a cup. ❧ This image is from an …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“K.A.R. going out on patrol.” Landscape view showing soldiers marching out of camp in columns. The soldiers are men of the 4/4 King’s African Rifles, probably at the camp at …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

"Andraikiba. Tat fra syd-vest 15/9 -18" ("Andraikiba. Taken from the south west side September 15, -18"). Andraikiba Lake, also called Iraikiba Lake, is near Antsirabe. Very popular outing area.


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Stokes exploding.” Landscape view looking over a lake towards the explosion of a mortar round during training. The soldiers then gathered the fish killed by the explosion. ❧ This image …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Sham fighting.” Landscape view showing soldiers of the 3/3rd King’s African Rifles lying in undergrowth, one is armed with a Vickers machine gun. ❧ The image is from an album …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“[I]n the [h]ospital [A]NMC depot.” Interior view of an African Native Medical Corps (ANMC) ward or possibly orderlies accommodation. The patients would be from the Carrier Corps recruited from British …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“The Lurio River, P.E.A.” Landscape view showing a wide expanse of the Lurio River. Capt. Irvine was with a column of the 4/4 KAR and the Nigerian Brigade when they …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

Map of Talagouga mission station Map of Talagouga mission station depicting buildings, plantations, vegetation… [Undeterminable scale] Use of document : Map published by the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris.