Africa history Gallery

GAFR2A-00001

A royal procession of Sultan Abd al-'Aziz IV in Morocco, 1800s.
Printed color halftone reproduction of a 19th-century watercolor by A. Schneider

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Cecil Rhodes and other British South Africa Company officials, 1896

Doctor Jameson, Cecil Rhodes, and J.T. Newton (left-right), administrators of the British South Africa Company, 1896.
Hand-colored haltone reproduction of a photograph

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GAFR2A-00053

Native workers descending into a diamond mine near Johannesburg, South Africa, 1890s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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