Angola Mining Photograph Album, ca. late 1910s-early 1920s

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Summary

Abstract:
One album containing 85 black/white photographs with handwritten captions in English, mainly southwest Angola.
Extent:
0.3 linear feet (1 oversize box)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Angola Mining Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 233. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

One album containing 85 black/white photographs with handwritten captions in English, mainly southwest Angola, showing the arrival of the first geologists/miners/engineers by ship S.S. Mozambique at Mossamedes [now Namibe], the quay, street scene, and hunting; prospecting at Giraul, Mucungo, Lagoa da Mina, Muninho, Maiombo, Wanamandambi Camp, Pedra Grande region, Cambongue, Kune, and elsewhere, including images of camp life, buildings, geological formations, digging and mine shafts, ore [probably gold]; local population of Capanignube, Mucubaes, Maiombo, Kune. Also, views of Region Chapeu Armado [on the coast], including bay and bitumen deposits; construction of the Kune high-road; Boer wagons and cattle.

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Acquisition information:
Purchase, 2006.
Physical location:
Del Norte Oversize.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Mines and mineral resources.
Places:
Angola.

Access and use

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

Angola Mining Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 233. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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