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Grace Graham and Katherine R. Spencer Jamaica and Africa Photograph Album, 1922, 1930.
Bernath Mss 265LOCAL
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Title:

Grace Graham and Katherine R. Spencer Jamaica and Africa Photograph Album, 1922, 1930

Creator/Contributor:

Graham, Grace., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Spencer, Katherine R.

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

Album contains 195 small black and white snapshots, captioned in English and taken on separate trips to Jamaica (September 1922) and Africa (New York to Matadi, Belgian Congo, Mar. 13-July 13, 1930). Jamaica images feature Jamaican children; shipboard views; shots of fellow travelers, hotel views, including the Myrtle Bank Hotel in Kingston; a Spanish aquaduct; street scenes, markets, carts, and horse-drawn carriages; palm trees, gardens and other scenic views; Kingston Harbor. Locations include Constant Spring, Mandeville, Kingston. Africa images include departing shots of New York; ships, harbors, shipboard views; Dakar (Senegal) street scenes, buildings, markets; shots of stops in and/or shipboard views of Freetown (Sierra Leone), Grand Bassam (Ivory Coast), Kribi (Cameroon), Port Gentil (Gabon), Loanda (Portuguese Angola); fellow travelers and crew; journey up the Congo River, stopping at Banana and Boma (Congo); scenic views of coastline; Matadi (Congo) docks and streets; several pet monkeys on board ship; garden, home, mission and church of Rev. Arthur E. Guest in Thysville (Congo); indigenous people.

Date:

1922 (issued)

Subject:

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Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Pictorial works
Congo River -- Pictorial works
Jamaica -- Pictorial works
Dakar (Senegal) -- Pictorial works
Freetown (Sierra Leone) -- Pictorial works
Grand-Bassam (Côte d'Ivoire) -- Pictorial works
Cameroon -- Pictorial works
Port-Gentil (Ogooué-Maritime, Gabon) -- Pictorial works
Luanda (Luanda, Angola) -- Pictorial works
Congo (Fleuve) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Jamaïque -- Ouvrages illustrés
Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
Cameroon
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo River
Côte d'Ivoire -- Grand-Bassam
Gabon -- Port-Gentil (Ogooué-Maritime)
Jamaica
Senegal -- Dakar
Sierra Leone -- Freetown

Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.
Purchase, 2007.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Grace Graham and Katherine R. Spencer Jamaica and Africa Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 265. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Type:

Photographs.
Photograph
photographs.
photograph albums.
Pictorial works.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Albums photographiques.

Physical Description:

.2 linear ft.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Bernath Mss 265LOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.