Africa history Gallery

Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, 1900

Cecil John Rhodes, British colonial administrator, on his verandah near Cape Town, South Africa, c. 1900.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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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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Egyptians drawing Nile water with a shadoof, a counterbalanced device used since ancient times.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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