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Box of 36 Stereoscopic Photographs (Gelatine Prints) of East Africa, by Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1909

Inventory Number 92546


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.92546

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Professor Oliver R. Gurney in 1973.
Primary inscriptions
Titles on 'spine' of book-shaped box: 'The Underwood Travel Library - East Africa Studies | Volume I | Underwood & Underwood' and '... Volume II'.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Cloth
Object type
Photograph
Dimensions
Height: 89mm Width: 179mm
Inventory No
92546
Accession Number
1973-22/4

Description

Stereoscopic gelatine or carbon prints mounted on card, 36 cards, 3½ by 7 inches, printed text on back of some, others blank. Mostly ethnographic and hunting scenes, and native groups. Mostly dated 1909. The box is made to look like a two-volume book.

They include some excellent photographs with good stereoscopic effect. Among them are 'Our photographer and his party' (the photographer is presumably the one with the whip) and 'King Wambugoo and his sixteen wives'.