East African photo collection now online

Abu Simbel from river steamer, Humphrey Winterton Coll, Northwestern UThe Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, housed in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University, is now online and accessible to the public. This rare collection includes roughly 7,610 photographs, 230 glass lantern slides, and various additional materials from 1860 to 1960.


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