Stanley, Henry M (Henry Morton) 1841-1904 Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI Search this
Subject:
Stanley, Henry M (Henry Morton) 1841-1904 Search this
Physical description:
1 album 11.25 x 2 in
Type:
Two-dimensional graphics
Portraits
Pictorial works
Advertising cards
Albums (books)
Place:
Africa
Date:
1890
Notes:
A photograph / card collectors album, consisting of card title page with colored chromo-lithograph view, eight further card leaves with colored chromo-lithograph views surrounding single large apertures, and eight blank card leaves (two with a single aperture, the remaining with four each). Card leaves with gilt edges; modern red calf backed mottled boards
M175 is the accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History. DSI
Supplied title
Forms part of: Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)
Summary:
Presumably designed for a "cigarette-card" type promotion where the intention was for a series of portrait cards to be collected and inserted in the album. The apertures though are larger than those fitting the standard "cigarette cards" being more of the size of "carte de visite" portrait photographs. The scenes depicted are all from Stanley's travels namely: "Banks of the Victoria Nyanza", "Mouth of the Congo", "Stanley Falls", "Wadelai, Residence of Emin Pasha", "Native Village on the Victoria Nyanza", "Cabinda on the Congo", "Mombassa, Port for Mails", "Zanzibar", and "The Tankanjika River", "Street of Mangela"
