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Title
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Zanzibar
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Institution
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Northwestern University
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Collection Title
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Digital Collections Images Repository; The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960
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Creator(s)
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Holmes, C. J. (Charles John), 1868-1936
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Shepperson, Claude A. (Claude Allin), 1867-1921
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Morrow, George, 1869-1955
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Reynolds, Frank, 1876-1953
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Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945
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Townsend, F. H. (Frederick Henry), 1868-1920
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Niven, Frederick, 1878-1944
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Shorter, Dora Sigerson, 1866-1918
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Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
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Milman, Lena
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Winterton, Humphrey
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Watteau, François, 1758-1823
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Caine, Hall, 1853-1931
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Kunstverlag Otto Seiffert, nachf. Berlin
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Alex Matthews & Co.
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Erith Observer
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L.L.
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Geo. Moore
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Kurt Toeppen
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C.R.
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Frank Rutter
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Delius
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Müller-Hofmann
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The standard
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Francis Bickley
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Elliott & Fry
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Grey, W. E. (William E.), 1861 or 1862-1925
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A. C. Gomes & Son
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Filippi, Tomaso, 1852-1948
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Emery Walker Limited
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Collector(s)
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Jukes, Wilson (Pitt's House)
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Description/Scope and Content
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The collection depicts the breadth of African experience; documents African life; European life in Africa in all its manifestations; and the African landscape, in particular as it changed over time. Included are photographs showing the building of East Africa’s railways, the growth of its urban centers and the development of European colonial administration. There are outstanding examples of portraiture. The collection provides an unsurpassed resource for the study of the history of photography in East Africa.
Cultural Context: Content on this site is drawn from a broad range of historical sources including materials that may contain offensive images or language reflecting the nature of European colonialism in Africa. Such materials should be viewed in the context of the time and place in which they were created. The images and text in this site are presented as specific, original artifacts recording the attitudes, perspectives and beliefs of a different era. Northwestern University does not endorse the views expressed in this collection which may contain images and text offensive to some researchers.
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Date
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1908 to 1910
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Identifier
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Not found
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Language
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German; English; Arabic; French; Italian
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Collection Type
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general collection
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Level of Processing
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Inventoried
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Type of Materials/Format
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scrapbook
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Copyright
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Known
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Donor Information
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Unavailable
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Notes
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-No Copyright - United States;
The images on this web site, from material in the collections of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies of Northwestern University Libraries, are provided for use by its students, faculty and staff, and by other researchers visiting this site, for research consultation and scholarly purposes only. Further distribution and/or any commercial use of the images from this site is not permitted.
-Genre: clippings (information artifacts); cartoons (humorous images); postcards; visiting cards; telegrams; ships' passenger lists; place cards; programs (documents); photographs; menus; leaflets (printed works); invitations.
-Subject: Italy--Messina; Germany--Munich; Tanzania--Pemba Island; Tanzania--Zanzibar; Yemen (Republic)--Aden; Chwaka; Egypt--Port Said; Vatican City; France--Calais; Tanzania; Weston, Frank, 1871-1924; Milman, Lena; Niven, Frederick, 1878-1944; Khalīfah ibn Ḥārib, Sultan of Zanzibar, -1960; Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles; McFadyen, Ella, 1887-1976; Clarke, Edward Ashley Walrond, 1860-1913; Cripps, Arthur Shearly, 1869-1952; Morrow, George, 1869-1955; Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945; Great Britain. Foreign Office; Tyrrell, George, 1861-1909; Sailboats; Voyages and travels; Regattas; Zanzibar House of Wonders Museum; ʻAlī ibn Ḥammūd, Sultan of Zanzibar, 1884-1918.
-Abstract: A scrapbook containing ephemera relating to Zanzibar, 1908-1910. Also included are postcards and other memorabilia from the marriage of Lena Milman and Edward Clarke, which took place several months before their departure to Zanzibar.
-Biographical Notes: Mrs. Clarke’s husband, Edward Ashley Waldrom Clarke (referred to in historic sources as E.A.W. Clarke or A.W. Clarke), was appointed British Agent and Consul General to Zanzibar in 1909. The scrapbook contains memorabilia collected by Mrs. Clarke starting with their marriage in November, 1908 through early 1910. A calling card with her maiden name gives an address in Venice and one in the Tower of London, where her father was the commandant. Before her marriage, Lena Milman was a translator and author, and corresponded with the author George Moore, among others in the literary world. Her work includes a biography of Christopher Wren ( Sir Christopher Wren. London : Duckworth; New York : C. Scribner, 1908) and an English translation of Dostoyevsky's Poor folk (London : E. Mathews and J. Lane; Boston : Roberts Bros., 1894). Several favorable reviews of her biography of Wren appear in the scrapbook. The Consul General died in Zanzibar in 1913; group 56, volume III contains a photograph of his funeral cortège. Many photographs of the Consul General appear in the group 56 albums, where he is referred to as "E.A.W. Clarke". At least one of the photographs in this album also appears in group 56, and many of the photographs in group 56 volumes I and II and album 75 depict the same events. (General Note).
-Related Material: Source: George Moore in transition : letters to T. Fisher Unwin and Lena Milman, 1894-1910. Edited with a commentary by Helmut E. Gerber. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1968.
-Scope and Contents: Folio (38 x 28 cm), containing numerous postcards, press clippings, original photographs, menus, leaflets, business cards and autographs; original blue cloth boards, rebacked, ‘Zanzibar’ blocked in gilt on spine. The scrapbook contains considerable memorabilia collected by Mrs. Clarke, some from the Chukwani Palace, including a place setting card for dinner with the Sultan. Collection includes materials in English, French, German, Italian, and Arabic.
