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University of California Africa Expedition Photograph Collection, 1947-1948.
Bernath Mss 153LOCAL
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Title:

University of California Africa Expedition Photograph Collection, 1947-1948

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

115 color slides and album containing 137 black and white prints, one color print, and a map of the Sudan Railway relating to an expedition to Africa. Locations include Faiyum, Zeuglodon Valley, Egypt; Nuba Hills, Sudan; Rift Valley, Turkana, Kenya; Tanganyika; Mozambique. Images include expedition officers and staff; the excavation of whale bones in Egypt and human skeletons in Kenya; expedition vehicles, ships, planes, and ferries on the Nile; camels, giraffes, and other wildlife; shipboard views from the USS Allagash; and native peoples in Sudan and Kenya.

Date:

1947 (issued)

Subject:

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Scientific expeditions -- Africa
Expéditions scientifiques -- Afrique
Scientific expeditions
Egypt -- Pictorial works
Sudan -- Pictorial works
Kenya -- Pictorial works
Tanzania -- Pictorial works
Mozambique -- Pictorial works
Africa
Egypt
Kenya
Mozambique
Sudan
Tanzania

Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.
Purchase, 2005.
Cite as: [Identification of item], University of California Africa Expedition Photograph Collection. Bernath Mss 153. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Type:

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

Physical Description:

.4 linear ft.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Bernath Mss 153LOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

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