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

Portrait of A C Irvine when he was posted to the Carrier Clearing Hospital at Ancuabe about sixty miles from the coast. ❧ This image is from an album chronicling …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Clearing land to build a hospital.” Portrait of an indigenous man in military uniform hacking down a tree. The area is being cleared for the Carrier Clearing Hospital at Ancuabe, …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Discipline – the application of the kiboko [koboko]. The Nigerians did far too much of it.” Exterior scene showing a soldier lying on the ground whilst being struck with a …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Sunday School classes. A visit to the Church of Scotland Mission at Kikuyu on a Sunday.” Landscape view showing different groups attending Sunday school with the youngest in the foreground. …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Well-earnest rest in our ‘tent’.” Exterior view showing two men sitting under a makeshift tent, the man sitting is probably Capt. Irvine who was with the Fitzcol [Fitzgerald column] as …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Kikuyu natives on railway platform.” Group portrait of indigenous people in traditional dress gathered outside the railway station office. Lt. Irvine visited the Church of Scotland mission at Kikuyu when …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“Lion.” Portrait of an indigenous man sitting between the bodies of two lions. This is an example of the big game hunting Capt. Irvine participated in during the campaign in …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“the end of the sick parade. Day’s work over.” Exterior view of a temporary camp with Capt. Irvine at a makeshift dispensary treating men from the Carrier Corps. This was …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

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 is from …


USC: University of Southern California · 1918 English

“The Owens.” “ Another day Tarr & I walked over to Archdeacon Owen’s at Butere.” Group portrait of the Owens and their three sons. Walter Edwin Owen (1878-1945) was Archdeacon …