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Tele-Dinda Mining Expedition [Belgian Congo] Photograph Album
Bernath Mss 100
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Title: Tele-Dinda Mining Expedition [Belgian Congo] Photograph Album,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1911-1912
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 100
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
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.
Tele-Dinda Mining Expedition [Belgian Congo] Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 100. Department of Special Collections, Davidson
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photograph album containing 105 b/w photos, with captions in English, of scenes in the Belgian Congo, taken by a member of
the Tele-Dinda Mining Expedition which apparently was prospecting for gold and diamonds. Images of mining operations, views
of forests and forest clearing, construction of camps, and many of nearby villages and inhabitants including Gabata, Banalya,
Kanwa, Edibe (some of pygmies), Kiambi, and Pweto. Also scenes along the Congo, Aruwimi, Tele, Lindi, and Zambezi Rivers,
Lake Moero, Stanley and Victoria Falls, Stanleyville, Kungalunga Plateau, and the Cape to Cairo Railroad.