Conakry, French Guinea photograph album, circa 1915

Printable guide [HTML]

Summary

Title:: Conakry, French Guinea photograph album
Dates:: circa 1915
Abstract:: [CONAKRY, FRENCH GUINEA] DESCHACHT, A."Conakry" La Perle de l'A.O.F. [Conakry, French Guinea Photograph Album with Sixty-Nine Photographs]. Ca. 1915.
Extent:: 0.92 linear feet (1 oversize box)
Language:
Preferred citation:: [Identification of Item], Conakry, French Guinea photograph album, Bernath Mss 471. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

[CONAKRY, FRENCH GUINEA] DESCHACHT, A."Conakry" La Perle de l'A.O.F. [Conakry, French Guinea Photograph Album with Sixty-Nine Photographs]. Ca. 1915.

Album of Conakry includes strong images of the port, the main streets and government and colonial buildings including the Grand Hotel, a church, Ballay hospital, the market, post office, the Railway Company of Niger, as well as a railway bridge, the ocean promenade, a lighthouse, the radio station and several other images of local and colonial buildings. Additionally there are several images of the native inhabitants as well as seven oval images of Guinean women. "Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in 1904 and prospered as an export port, particularly after a (now closed) railway to Kankan opened the large scale export of groundnut from the interior." Sixty-nine gelatin silver photographs mounted on forty-one leaves. Oblong Folio (30x41 cm). Most photos ca. 17x23 cm (7x9 in) but some smaller and oval. Most images with the blind stamp of A. Deschacht, Conakry, Guinee Francaise. From dealer's description.

Acquisition information:

Library purchase, 2014.

Physical location:

Del Norte Oversize

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Photograph albums
Photographs
Places:: Conakry (Guinea) -- Pictorial works

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Edward C. Fields, 2014.
Date Prepared:: 2014 June 26
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2014-09-03T16:06-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:: The collection is open for research.
Terms of access:: 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.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of Item], Conakry, French Guinea photograph album, Bernath Mss 471. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:: UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US