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Exterior view showing the newspaper's sign above the entrance. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Dans la Cité indigène Léopoldville se trouve situé, avenue Prince Baudouin, l'immeuble où sont installés les services du journal 'La Voix du Congolais'. Cette feuille, largement répandue, s'adressant aux indigènes et rédigée par les plus évolués d'entr'eux, leur permet d'exprimer librement leurs opinions. (février 1947). Photo A. Da Cruz'.

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100 x 78 mm. A view showing a large female chimpanzee, shot by Christy and held up to be photographed by his tent boy.

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127 x 91 mm. Screen print showing a bongo shot by C.A. Reid lying by the roadside. 'The white forehead band and cheek spots, the white horn tips, the dorsal fringe, the mottled ears and the tufted ox-like tail are all well seen'. Photograph by C.A. Reid.

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127 x 91 mm. Screen print showing a bongo shot by C.A. Reid lying by the roadside. 'The white forehead band and cheek spots, the white horn tips, the dorsal fringe, the mottled ears and the tufted ox-like tail are all well seen'. Photograph by C.A. Reid.

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100 x 75 mm. A view showing a very large man-eating lion killed by members of a prospecting party in Katanga. An African stands beside the body to indicate scale. Photograph by R. Williams and Co.

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In profile. The caption reads: 'Taken with a patrol light, old man in Congo Forest near Ukaturaka. He has crocodile tooth necklace'.

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125 x 125 mm. A view of a road cutting through the forest.

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105 x 90 mm. A view of a road cutting through the forest.

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135 x 80 mm. Showing a line of huts with the lake and mountains beyond.

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Showing a group of people resting in a clearing with trees and mountains in the background. The caption continues: 'Western slopes of the Ruwenzori. Bwamba on their way to Lake Albert'.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...

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Views of the crater of Nyamaragira, an active volcano to the north of Lake Kivu, Zaire.

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Views of the crater of Nyamaragira, an active volcano to the north of Lake Kivu, Zaire.

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Showing two tents and a mountain in the background. The caption on the album page reads: 'Nyamlagira, an active volcano in the Parc National Albert. Belgian Congo [i.e. Congo]'. An active volcano to the north of Lake Kivu, Zaire.

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Showing a car , bed and tables by the side of a road. Upper Zaire, Christmas 1934.

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Showing a baby breastfeeding.

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The caption below the photograph reads: 'Ekibondo and the rest house I stayed in. This was built in honour of the Prince of Wales visit [sic]'.

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Close-up view of a butterfly. The caption reads: 'Caught at Bondo on the banks of the Uele River, N. Belgian Congo. (Dec. 27) The largest butterfly in Africa. Wing span measuring 9 inches'.

Scope and Contents Half-length portrait of Paul Lomani Tshibamba, author of the novel Ngandu, which in 1948 won the Prix Littéraire de la Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Voici Paul Lomami Tshibamba, auteur de la nouvelle intitulée 'Ngandu' qui a remporté en 1948 le prix littéraire de la Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles.Tshibamba, employé de l'administration, vit à Léopoldville.Ziehier Paul Lomami Tshibamba, de schrijver van de novelle 'Ngandu' welke in 1948...

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Showing two African actors in a scene from Limbisa Monguna, a play written in Lingana by Mgr. Six, Vicar Apostolic of Leopoldville. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Une scène de 'Limbisa Monguna', pièce de théâtre écrite en Lingala par Mgr. Six, Vicaire Apostolique de Léopoldville et interprétée par un groupe d'indigènes anciens élèves des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes. (Léopoldville, décembre 1948)'. Photograph by H. Goldstein (Congopresse).

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In the Ituri Forest, Kivu region, Zaire.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...

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The caption on the album page reads: 'Batwa (pigmies) in the Eturi Forest'.