Preliminary Guide to the Angola Mining Photograph Album
Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
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Preliminary Guide to the Angola Mining Photograph Album, ca. late 1910s-early 1920s
Collection number: Bernath Mss 233
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Oct. 27, 2010
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.
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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.
There is no container list for this collection.
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.