African Gallery

EXPL2A-00139

Timbuktu in Africa, as drawn by Rene-Auguste Caillie, the first European visitor, 1828.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of Caillie's illustration

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Pharaoh and other ancient Egyptians

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh with court officer and fan bearer: a judge: a guard: and neighboring tribesmen.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Cecil Rhodes and other British South Africa Company officials, 1896

Doctor Jameson, Cecil Rhodes, and J.T. Newton (left-right), administrators of the British South Africa Company, 1896.
Hand-colored haltone reproduction of a photograph

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