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 · 1950 English

"Sheep graze along the lagoon shore where beach sand is piled up to be sold to building contractors." Livestock graze along the shore in Lagos, Nigeria. This photograph comes from …


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

A church is being built on the left. The school is on the right.


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

"Standing on the edge of the site, you can see a spring which flows at the foot of the large coconut [sic] palm in the center." Another view of a …


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

"After long hours we arrive at Ikot Usen and stop in front of the church building -" A taxi parked in front of the Church of Christ building in Ikot …


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

"and we're off for Johannesburg." An airplane departs the airport in Accra, Ghana and heads toward Johannesburg South Africa. This photograph comes from an album that recounts Eldred Echols and …


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

View of the station of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Ngomo: health centre and the church in the background.


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

Portrait of the people who attend to the fair for the harvest time in Nkangsuvy, in front of a church.


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

From the left to the right : in the background, the house of the carpenter, the garage, the classroom, the dormitory, in the foreground, the wood warehouse and the carpentry …


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

"The catch is traded to fish-wives for cornmeal or cassava meal, which is boiled to make the national food, 'gari'." Local fishermen trading their catch for general goods. This photograph …


USC: University of Southern California · 1950 English

"'Plane sighted' and the emergency truck heads onto the landing strip." Emergency trucks at the Port Harcourt airport in Nigeria prepare for a plane-landing. This photograph comes from an album …