National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Container:
Drawer F1A, Folder 311970-01
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents note:
Documents
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Container:
Drawer F1A, Folder 311970-80
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents note:
Photos
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
This collection includes postcards from 45 African countries. Subjects include agriculture; animals; artists; body arts; cityscapes; cultural landscapes; dance; education; expeditions; flora; industry; leaders; marketplaces; medicine; military; missionaries; music; portraits; recreation; rites and ceremonies; and transportation, among many other topics.
Arrangement note:
Arranged by country and topic
Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Genre/Form:
Postcards
Citation:
African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Collection Citation:
African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Printed caption on verso reads: "African Portrait - Limbe, Malawi."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Photograph: Margaret Waller / A59 Jafta Cards, Harare, Zimbabwe."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MW-20-01
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Universities' Mission to Central Africa Search this
Extent:
1 Postcard (halftone., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
Container:
Volume 1
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Postcards
Picture postcards
Place:
Africa
Malawi
Malawi, -- Central Region, -- Nkhotakota (Kota Kota)
Date:
circa 1920
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on verso reads: "Women and Girls of Kota Kota (Nyasaland Diocese), dressed in the Chilundu which so often puzzles English working parties."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Universities' Mission to Central Africa, 9. Dartmouth Street, Westminster."
Postmarked postage stamp, manuscript message, and address on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA MW-20-02
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Printed caption on verso reads: "The Nyassa Industrial Mission preaches the Gospel to the natives of British Central Africa who work on the Misssion plantations, and also in the surrounding villages as illustrated above. For further particulars write to the Secretary, Rev. A. Walker, Sandrock, Sevenoaks, who will thankfully receive contributions."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Universities' Mission to Central Africa, 9. Dartmouth Street, Westminster."
Postmarked postage stamp, manuscript message, and address on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA MW-39-01
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries) Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Correspondence, 12-21 cm in envelope 25 x 38 cm)
Container:
Item M092
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1853-1863
Scope and Contents note:
Livingstone's autograph letters to his financial supporter James Young, including two fragments ([4] pages on 1 sheet, dated July 7, 1863, Cataracts of Shire [Malawi]; and [4] pages, undated, with caption heading "3 sheet"), and a complete, signed letter dated Cataracts, August 1, 1863 ([8] pages), with addendum "August 8, Cataracts" on page [8]. Livingstone's letters discuss the missionaries on the Zambezi expedition, his plan to sell his boat the Lady Nyassa in Bombay, and his praise for John Kirk. Persons mentioned in Livingstone's letters include Mr. Tod; Mr. Hannam; John Kirk; Meller; Thornton; Mr. Hamilton; Rae; Mrs. Baines; Dr. Macleod; and Bishop Tozer. The manuscript group also includes an autograph letter signed by Robert Candlish (Edinburgh, November 14, 1853; [1] page) to an unidentified recipient ("My dear sir"); an autograph letter with letterhead "2, Eton Terrace, Edinburgh" (correspondents' names illegible; dated "Thursday"; [3] pages on 1 sheet); and an autograph letter dated Edinburgh, 5 July 1859 (sender Dr. [Thomas] Guthrie?; [4] pages on 1 sheet).
General note:
Also included in the manuscript group: an engraved card illustrating a church building in Gothic Revival style, with captions: 1. (handwritten) "Commercial school"; 2. (engraved) "There are two sets of converging lines in this object, one converging to the right and the other to the left." Verso of card is blank.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries) Search this
Extent:
1 Item
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1878
Scope and Contents note:
This series includes one hand-drawn map documenting travel around Lake Nysasa [Lake Malawi] in Tanzania.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries) Search this
Extent:
1 Album (Photograph albums, 8 x 5.5 in. or smaller (photographs), 12 x 10 x 1.5 in. (album))
Container:
Item Ph032
Type:
Archival materials
Albums
Date:
1880 - 1890
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs from South Africa, Rhodesia and British Central Africa. The photos are of natives in a Kraal, portraits of natives and photos of Mrs. Livingstone's grave, Algoa Bay after storm with wrecked sailing ships, and a portrait of Cecil Rhodes.
General note:
59 of the photographs, mounted recto and verso on 31 leaves. Black calf binding. Ph032 is the accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
Collection Rights:
The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
