Africa : a survey inspection tour.

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Description

Title
Africa : a survey inspection tour.
Creator
Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd, 1878-1946.
Contributor
Eastman Kodak Company
Great Britain.--Colonial Survey Committee
Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd,--1878-1946
Published / Created
1927-1929.
Abstract

Album of photographic prints and drawings probably compiled by Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham that documents his inspection tour of British colonial surveying departments in Africa for the Colonial Survey Committee, February 1929 to November 1929.

Images that depict locations in individual colonies are often preceded in the album by a map of the region with annotations that trace the route of the tour. Colonies and regions documented include Egypt, Gold Coast (Ghana), Kenya, Nigeria, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar. Images include views of landscapes, communities, and informal portraits of members of the inspection tour party, as well as white and black Africans.

The album includes some images created earlier than the tour, including an informal portrait of members of the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission in 1927, as well as several photograph postcards depicting black Africans and places in Kenya created and distributed by Kodak (East Africa) Limited.

Description
Brigadier Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham (1878-1946) served in the South African War and World War I, and as Director-General of the General Ordinance Survey of Great Britain, 1930-1935.
Photographic prints in the album are 11 x 16 cm. and smaller.
Purchased from McBlain Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007.
Title from cover.
Extent
1 album (400 photographic prints) : b & w ; 37.8 x 31.0 cm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
GEN MSS 583

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
mixed material
Genre
Photograph albums
Photographic prints
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic)
Africa--Pictorial works
Egypt--Pictorial works
Ghana--Pictorial works
Kenya--Pictorial works
Malawi--Pictorial works
Nigeria--Pictorial works
Sierra Leone--Pictorial works
Sudan--Pictorial works
Tanzania--Pictorial works
Uganda--Pictorial works
Zanzibar--Pictorial works
Zimbabwe--Pictorial works
Subject (Name)
Eastman Kodak Company
Great Britain.--Colonial Survey Committee
Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd,--1878-1946
Subject (Topic)
Blacks--Africa--Pictorial works
Surveying--Africa--Pictorial works
Whites--Africa--Pictorial works

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Citation
Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham, Africa: A Survey Inspection Tour. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
7969678
Object ID (OID)
17303329

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