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

Group portrait of medical staff gathered under a canopy outside. This is possibly at Nanungu where a German Hospital was discovered on 19 May 1918. ❧ This image is from …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“Town Hall, Durban.” Exterior view of the Town Hall in Durban with soldiers and a horse and cart in the street out front. The photograph was taken during a sightseeing …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“Binger Hotel, DSM.” Exterior view of a hotel in Dar es Salaam where Lt. Irvine presumably stayed in between going up country during his time in German East Africa. ❧ …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“Our men bathing near the Koenig.” Exterior view showing bathers in the Rufiji delta and the wreck of the SMS Königsberg (1905-1915) which was scuttled there by its German crew …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

"Fra Barnehjemmet paa Imangarivotra, Antsirabe. 22/11 1917" ("From the residential child care home in Imangarivotra, Antsirabe. November 22, 1917").


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“You didn’t know I was a rider? Note how the good rider always looks as if he were part of his horse!” Portrait of Lt. AC Irvine on a horse. …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“Young shark caught at DSM – Dar es Salaam.” Portrait of a local fisherman holding up a large fish by the tail, two small vessels lie in the shallow behind …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

"Paa trappen "Imangarivotra" 1917" ("On the steps "Imangarivotra" 1917"). From the left: Sina Loeken, a missionary in Madagascar from 1900-1934, Anna Ammundsen, a missionary in Madagascar from 1911-1920, Alma Jensen, …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“B.O’s entraining for up country.” Group portrait of British officers at a railway station waiting to board the train. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“An old native gentleman, who visited us one day.” Portrait on an indigenous man with a pipe and walking stick. This is possibly taken near Matikira where Lt. Irvine was …