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Album 1: Oblong Folio (ca. 25x30 cm or 9 ¾ x 11 ¾ in). 24 card stock leaves. With 154 original gelatin silver photos, from ca. 9,5x14,5 cm (3 ¾ x 5 ½ in) to ca. 6x5,5 cm (2 ¼ x 2 in). Ca. 140 photos with period pencil captions on the mounts (some captions relate to several images). With two mounted real photo postcards ca. 9x14 cm (3 ½ x 5 ½ in) and six mounted souvenir postal stamps from the series "South Africa, Kruger National Park." Period black faux leather album fastened with a string. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, , but overall a very good album of interesting photos. Album 2: Oblong Quarto (ca. 18,5x29,5 cm or 7 ¼ x 11 ¾ in). 33 card stock leaves (4 blank). With 112 original gelatin silver photos, including two panoramas ca. 7x20 cm (2 ¾ x 7 ¾ in) or slightly larger; the rest of the photos are from ca. 9,5x14,5 cm (3 ¾ x 5 ½ in) to ca. 6x6 cm (2 ¼ x 2 ¼ in). All but a few photos with period white ink captions on the mounts (some captions relate to several images). Period black full cloth album fastened with a string; gilt-lettered title "Photographs" on the front board. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, but overall a very good album of interesting photos. WITH: two loose gelatin silver photos, both ca. 14,5x19,5 cm (5 ¾ x 7 ¾ in); both with the photographer's signatures in negative; one also captioned "Mpatamanga Gorge" in negative. WITH: a notebook: 12mo (ca. 16x10 cm or 6 ¼ x 3 ¾ in). Over a hundred leaves, filled in mostly on rectos, occasional notes on versos. Blue ink and pencil on lined paper. Presentation inscription, the owner's address, the diary title on recto and verso of the front free endpapers. Period blue notebook with cloth spine and card boards. Overall very good. WITH: an original manuscript: large Octavo (ca. 23x17,5 cm or 9x7 in). [8] pp. Pencil, blue and green ink on lined paper. Fold marks, paper slightly age-toned, otherwise very good. Historically significant collection of two albums with over 260 lively amateur gelatin silver photos, illustrating an early caravan road trip around Southern Africa, dating back to ca. 1938-1939. The travelling party, an English family ("Mr. Clinton Thomas," his wife and 20-year-old daughter), arrived in Durban from Southampton in November 1937, bringing their caravan vehicle with them (the diary, kept by Ms. Thomas, reveals some details on the party disembarking in Durban and clearing the caravan in local customs on November 19). The albums document several of their road trips around the Union of South Africa (South African Republic), Southern and Northern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe and Zambia), Nyasaland (Malawi) and Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique). The larger album opens with a photo of the travellers' car and caravan in front of their house near Durban, captioned "W're off," followed by several views of Natal Province (travellers resting on a riverbank near Estcourt, the caravan at Vrede and Standerton). Over forty photos of Transvaal (modern-day Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa) show the caravan "on the way to Punda Maria," a series of views of Kruger National Park (the caravan in Shingwedzi and Letaba rest camps, scenery with lions, antelopes, wildebeests, giraffes, ostriches, "a concrete causeway," "Crocodile River pontoon," "Sabi River from Letaba Camp," "Memorial stone unveiled by P. Kruger at the opening of the Park," the caravan stuck on a "sand drift"), Wyllie's Poort and Magoebaskloof mountain passes, "Union Buildings at Pretoria," &c. Over sixty photos of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) show customs house in Beitbridge, "pitch at Bulawayo," grave of Cecil Rhodes and Memorial to the Shangani Patrol in the Matobo Hills (southern Zimbabwe), a series of excellent views of the Victoria Falls (general views, rising water vapour in the distance, Victoria Falls Bridge, Devil's Cataract, statue of David Livingstone, Boiling Pot, tourists gathered around a biplane), a series of views of the ruins of the Great Zimbabwe (city walls, tower.
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