Printed caption on verso reads: "View from Lamu Museum, Lamu."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Printed by: The Rodwell Press Ltd., Mombasa - Kenya."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-41-01
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
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Printed caption on recto reads: "Greetings from Lamu."
Printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1807. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya / Printed by: The Rodwell Press Ltd., Mombasa - Kenya."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-06-02
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Printed caption on verso reads: "Suk displaying their beaded jewelry."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1341. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya. / Printed in Italy."
Manuscript message, address, and postmarked postage stamps on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-111
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1103. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya. / Printed in Italy."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-24-08
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Title source: Postcard caption.
Numbering Peculiarities Note:
Additional incomplete accession number on verso: A1992-18
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Text on recto reads: "10. Native Market. Mombasa, Kenya Colony."
Additional text on verso reads: "Copyright. East African Standard LTD., Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-16-08
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Title source: Postcard caption.
Image indexed by catalogue number or subjects.
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Text on recto reads: "8. 'Transport'. Mombasa, Kenya Colony."
Additional text on verso reads: "Copyright. East African Standard LTD., Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-24-11
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Text on recto reads: "9. Native Houses. Mombasa, Kenya Colony."
Additional text on verso reads: "Copyright. East African Standard LTD., Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-07-11
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Text on recto reads: "1. On the Road Round the Island. Mombasa, Kenya Colony."
Text on verso reads: "Copyright. East African Standard LTD., Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-14-02
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Text on recto reads: "5. Roman Catholic Church. Mombasa, Kenya Colony."
Additional text on verso reads: "Copyright. East African Standard LTD., Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-45-02
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Topic:
Mod. architecture/cityscape -- Photographs Search this
Text on recto reads: "12. Kilindini Harbour. Mombasa, Kenya Colony."
Additional text on verso reads: "Copyright. East African Standard LTD., Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-35-02
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Text on recto reads: "4. "Wavel" Memorial. Mombasa, Kenya Colony."
Additional text on verso reads: "Copyright. East African Standard LTD., Nairobi."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-50-03
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Printed caption on verso reads: "Giriama Dancers."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1303. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya / A Real Photograph."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-08-17
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1353. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-08-18
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Printed caption on verso reads: "Wakamba Dancers."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1304. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya / A Real Photograph."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-08-19
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Printed caption on verso reads: "Giriama Dancers."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1357. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya / A Real Photograph."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-08-20
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1302. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya / A Real Photograph."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-119
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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Printed caption on verso reads: "Say cheese before I click. (Turkana Girl)."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Edition East Africa, 1312. / Copyright by: Frank Ltd., P.O. Box 81133 - Mombasa Kenya / A Real Photograph."
Local Numbers:
EEPA KE-20-120
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Title source: Postcard caption.
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The photographs document African businesses, cities, industry, landscapes, peoples and resources. The collection documents various locations within Kenya, Tanzania, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa. Peoples represented include Kikuyu, Maasai, Bangi, Chagga, Ndombe, Poto, Bangala, Zulu, and Kongo peoples. There are many images of agriculture, hunting, making pottery, mining diamonds and gold, church services at a Catholic mission, a gathering of chiefs at a court, a lion-killing ceremony, and war dances. Businesses and industries shown include coffee plantations; the DeBeers Diamond Mine; a diamond mine compound and crushing mill; fishing boats; a hemp plantation; ivory trade; a market; and the stock market.
Scope and Contents:
The photographs document African businesses, cities, industry, landscapes, peoples and resources. Place documented include Moshi Province, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru, the Serengeti Plain (Kenya), and Zanzibar in German East Africa (now Tanzania); Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); Cape Town, Devil's Peak, Johannesburg, Kimberly, Natal Province, and Port Elizabeth in South Africa; the waterfront of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Soko, Boma, Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), and Stanley Falls (now Boyoma Falls). There are also photographs of the Nile during a flood.
People portrayed include a Kikuyu man paying brideprice for a wife; Kikuyu women carrying water vessels and planting beans; Maasai women building houses; Swahili people dancing; Swahili women using a power figure to ward off evil; and Zulu men training for war. Other peoples portrayed include Bangala, Bangi, Chagga, Kongo, Ndombe and Poto.
Activities documented include buying ivory, carrying rubber, clearing the ground for a coffee plantation, fishing, gambling, grinding corn, hunting zebra, making pottery, mining diamonds and gold, peeling bark for bark cloth, picking coffee, preparing food, smoking meat, threshing beans, and tying house poles. There are also images of church services at a Catholic mission, a gathering of chiefs at a court, a lion-killing ceremony, and war dances.
Businesses and industries shown include coffee plantations in Rhodesia; the DeBeers Diamond Mine in South Africa; a diamond mine compound and crushing mill; fishing boats off Cape Town; a hemp plantation in Uganda; ivory trade in Mombasa, Kenya; a market; and the stock market in Johannesburg.
Biographical / Historical:
In 1882 the Underwood and Underwood Company began operations in Kansas. Founded by brothers Bert Elias (1862-1943) and Elmer (1860-1947) Underwood, the company pioneered the technique of selling stereographs door-to-door. By 1884, Underwood and Underwood's operations had expanded to the West Coast, and the company soon opened offices throughout the world. In the 1890s, the firm began selling images to publications such as Illustrated London News and Harper's Weekly. At its peak in the early 19th century, the company produced 25,000 images per day.
In the late 1910s, Underwood and Underwood was purchased by a competing stereograph company, the Keystone View Company.
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