Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

"Rasthaus" ("Rest house"). Photograph of 3 rectangular thatched houses arranged in U-shape. The outer houses are only partly visible. In front of them is a hedge fence. In the interior …

“1 ¾ tons of transport – the lorry & Hudson just arrived from Nairobi full up.” Exterior view of the Irvine’s bungalow, at Chogoria, with the Morris lorry and Hudson …

"Campement de Waza [Waza-leiren]". ("The Waza camp".) Small mountain top with some houses with modern windows.

"Typical village". Models of houses and village buildings. Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) was the twenty-seventh governor of Michigan serving one term from 1911-12. He travelled widely and visited Madagascar between …

"Missionshaus in Gonja. Schulkinder fegen den Weg" ("Mission house in Gonja. School children sweeping the path."). European house with a roof thatched with plant fiber and a garden. Children sweeping …

Elisabethville et ses environs. Missie Salésienne. Salesian mission." Exterior view of mission houses and a church. The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the publisher: "Edit. …

A white-hatted missionary stands amid a number of thatch-roofed mud huts. People labor at domestic tasks around him. The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it. Printed at …

"Ambòhimànga, N. side". View of village houses and hills. John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital …

"Missionar Brümmerhoff im Gespräch mit Gemeindemitgliedern" ("Missionary Brümmerhoff talking to parishioners"). Photograph of missionary Brümmerhoff talking to a group of African people standing in front of a small house with …

"Missions des P. P. du Saint-Esprit - Cameroun" "Maison de Missionnaire, a peine achevee et deja habitee". A two-story missionary house is depicted at the crest of a hill. A …