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Preliminary Guide to the Angola Mining Photograph Album
Bernath Mss 233
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Title: Angola Mining Photograph Album
Dates: ca. late 1910s-early 1920s
Collection number: Bernath Mss 233
Collection Size:
0.3 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: One album containing 85 black/white photographs with handwritten captions in English, mainly southwest Angola.
Physical location: Del Norte Oversize.
Languages:
English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Angola Mining Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 233. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2006.
Scope and Content of Collection
One album containing 85 black/white photographs with handwritten captions in English, mainly southwest Angola, showing the
arrival of the first geologists/miners/engineers by ship
S.S. Mozambique at Mossamedes [now Namibe], the quay, street scene, and hunting; prospecting at Giraul, Mucungo, Lagoa da Mina, Muninho,
Maiombo, Wanamandambi Camp, Pedra Grande region, Cambongue, Kune, and elsewhere, including images of camp life, buildings,
geological formations, digging and mine shafts, ore [probably gold]; local population of Capanignube, Mucubaes, Maiombo, Kune.
Also, views of Region Chapeu Armado [on the coast], including bay and bitumen deposits; construction of the Kune high-road;
Boer wagons and cattle.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Angola.
Mines and mineral resources.