African Collection (page 125)

French National Loan poster for the Credit Foncier d Algerie et de Tunisie, showing a busy scene in a North African port

Rabbit Seller - Constantinople
Black North African rabbit seller in Constantinople, with a white bunny available for purchase in the cage at her side

Tunisian Street Scene - Sfax
The Native Quarter - Sfax, Tunisia. A general street scene

Poster depicting West African mahogany
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting West African mahogany in a forest, with small monkeys swinging on long creepers

South Africa tourist board poster
Ticker-tape text reads Stop... anytime is holiday time... for you... in... South Africa, and a holiday atmosphere is conjured up with a magazine, sunglasses, beach towel and shells

Poster advertising Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre cruises
Poster advertising Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre luxury cruises to the West African coast via Marseilles

Algeria - Algiers - The Waterfront
The waterfront of Algiers, Algeria, showing the elegant colonaded seafront, supporting the tramlines running along the front

Cartoon on Stock Exchange Settlement Terms
Until Big Bang in the City of London (1986), there was a settlement day (every fortnight) for the payment of stocks and shares - this period was known as The Account

WW1 - French Turkos troops - Prisoners of War
WW1 - Captured French Turkos (or Turcos) troops - the nickname of the Algerian and Tunisian rifles of the French army, which were officially known as Tirailleurs Algeriens and Tirailleurs Tunisiens

North African Dervishes (French Exhibition)
North African Dervishes displaying at a French Exhibition. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

Group of Egyptian Whirling Derivishes
Group Egyptian Dervishes. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Seated Egyptian Dervish
North African (Egyptian) Dervish seated. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Redvers Buller at Hlobane
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller at the battle of Hlobane (or Inhlobane) Mountain, one of the less well-known battles of the Zulu Wars

The late Mr. A. M Mackay
Alexander Murdock Mackay, author and lay agent of the English Church Missionary Society in Uganda, Lake Victoria Nyanza." One of the ablest and bravest

On the Air Route to the Cape by Fortunino Matania
Natives in Northern Rhodesia, under the supervision of British officers, are pictured mowing down a field of wild arum lilies to make way for a landing ground or runway. Date: 1920

Stuck car in South Africa
A landowner or farmer in South Africa has a great deal of trouble crossing a river or wadi and has to enlist the help of several native inhabitants

The Prince Takar, son of the Bey of Tunis

Morocco, Casablanca - New Medina, Fountain and Mosque

The Mosque of Sultan Kalaoun, Cairo, Egypt

Swaziland, South Africa - Tenbe River - a landing place

South Africa - Kraal Village in Northern Transvaal
South Africa - The Moshudy Lenchwees Kraal Village in Northern Transvaal

Memorial to David Livingstone, Tanzania
David Livingstones memorial at Ujiji, Tanzania

Algerian graveyard
An Algerian graveyard with tombstones

An Arab Cafe in Egypt

Angola - Luanda - traditional boat
Traditional boat carved whole from the trunk of a tree - on the sea off Luanda, Angola, south-west Africa

Angola - Ferry Passengers
Passengers on a ferry off Sao Thome, Angola. A woman with a baby child on her back stands alongside a stack of wicket containers

Royal Mail Atlantis Cruises poster
Poster advertising a cruise on the RMSP Atlantis with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, featuring a smiling young woman in what looks like a North African location, carrying a water urn

Cameroon, Africa - In the Bush

Algeria - Kabyle Family
Mealtime for a family of the Kabyle People - Berbers from North Eastern Algeria

Somali Woman - Coronation Exhibition
A Somali Woman weaving in the entrance to her reed hut - an exhibit at the Coronation Exhibition of 1911 in London

General Smuts / Stamp
JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS South African General and statesman

General Botha / Stamp
LOUIS BOTHA South African soldier and statesman Date: 1862 - 1919

Two Kenyan Men
A fabulous photographic portrait of two Kenyan Tribesmen in full traditonal costume. They wear Ostrich Feathers in their hair and one holds a fly whisk

Gambia - An Oil palm fruiting head

Kenyan Men in full ceremonial attire

Mr J. H. Balmers Kaffir Boys. A Boy Choir from South Africa

Angola - The American Mission to Ambaca
Angola - A section of the American Mission to Ambaca

Young Egyptian boy with his donkey

Cairo, Egypt - The Khedive in the Bab-el-hadid District

Group of Algerian men and tame Lion
Group of Algerian men and tamed Lion, with a chain lead. The caption reads: A reassuring little partner

Grand Abyssinian Woman (now Ethiopia) with two servants standing behind her carrying her possessions

Belgian Congo - Market at Kabinda
A native Central African market at Kabinda, Congo

Southern Africa - Lesotho (formerly Basutoland)
Lesotho (formerly Basutoland), Southern Africa - a traditional village

Ivory Coast - Abidjan
River crossing at Abidjan, Ivory Coast with a railway carriage crane, ready to unload arriving cargo

Zagnanado, Benin (formerly Dahomey)
Wonderfully-decorated old Royal house at Zagnanado, Benin (formerly Dahomey), West Africa

Hut Tax War, Sierra Leone
A good specimen of a taxed hut, the subject of the Hut Tax War, an insurrection by the native population in pockets of Sierra Leone

Spahis, 1915
Reading a comunique to the Spahis, Recy, near Chalon, Marne on the French front during World War I in July 1915

Izmir, Turkey - Wrestling match
A wrestling match between African and a Turkish professional wrestlers at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - posted from the Russian Post office to Lyon from Smyrna by a French tourist

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