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Bernath Mss 306
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Title: Sierra Leone photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: Bernath Mss 306
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Date (inclusive): 1906-1907
Abstract: The collection contains 71 black/white images, most silver gelatin snapshots, some with dates and captions in English, in
a partially filled album.
The collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of item], Sierra Leone photograph album, Bernath Mss 306. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2008.
Existence and Location of Copies
DVD copy with album. In addition, DVD content has been copied onto "repository" drive in folders corresponding to the mss
number.
The collection contains 71 black/white images, most silver gelatin snapshots, some with dates and captions in English, in
a partially filled album. The unnamed compiler likely was British, possibly a colonial administrator, businessman, or family
member. Early images are of the outward bound voyage on the
S.S. Nigeria in Nov. 1906, passengers and crew, as well as scenes of the coast, including Freetown. Also, other scenes of Freetown, including
the wharf, Marley's Extension, Boia railway station and tracks, local inhabitants and residences, Tai River and village, Mano
Station, town of Bo, Ayo Ville hotel at Waterloo, European-style buildings and construction, boat building for the Sierra
Leone Coaling Company, King Tom Jetty, King Jemmy [Jimmy] Bay and boats, local military and band, with European officers,
on parade and with artillery, European men (including a Dr. Bower) and women in groups at leisure and in hammocks. The latest
dated photograph is Dec. 4, 1907.
There is no container list for this collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photograph albums
Photographs
Sierra Leone--Pictorial works
Snapshots