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 · 1917 English

“A native fisherman & his Katamaran.” Portrait of an indigenous man next to a beached catamaran, he holds onto the rudder. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“Carpenter’s house at Itigi where I lived 3 weeks when I went to relieve him, first on going up country.” Exterior view of a two storey house with a figure …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“More of my surgical patients.” Group portrait indigenous men with various bandaged wounds. They are members of the Carrier Corps and were treated by Lt. Irvine at the carrier hospital …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“Below [the text] is my car & driver.” “I used to go across every morning to a Belgian carrier camp 2 ½ miles away to take a sick parade.” Portrait …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“I was called out to a railway accident at 12 midnight – a rain washout [of] the line. 3 people badly injured – that’s all!” View showing carriages on and …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

Portrait of girls who are pupils in the school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Lambarene. A missionary woman is on the right.


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“At the Carrier Camp for a morning cup of tea. Note “Banda’s” built for living in.” Group portrait of four officers standing outside a thatched hut [Banda]. Lt. Irvine, RAMC, …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“A native path in typical G.E.A. country. Not a drop of water, not a living soul – just sun!” Landscape view of rocky scrubland and a narrow footpath. This is …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“Operating. Holding up the bullet extracted in the forceps.” Interior view of the hospital theatre with two doctors, in surgical gowns, and two hospital assistants, in military uniform, standing around …


USC: University of Southern California · 1917 English

“A street in DSM.” Street scene showing a stone balustrade and enormous trees either side of a road. Lt. Irvine was back in Dar es Salaam before being stationed in …