NitroX
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| 14/07/18 08:24 PM |
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Some vintage African photos
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Recovered these old images from broken links.
Some vintage photos.
Can anyone identify the individuals and any other details such as the date and place and circumstances?
A grand old ele tusker bull. Image is referenced as Italo Balbow.
"Italo Balbow" with the magnificent tusks. It would be sad if such grand old beasts disappeared from the face of the Earth.
This gentleman looks very familiar, and I should know his name.
| lancaster |
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| 14/07/18 09:38 PM |
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Re: Some vintage African photos
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Italo Balbo was Governor-General of Libya, Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa (Ferrara, 6 June 1896 – Tobruk, 28 June 1940) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Balbo
this pics are very likely from Africa Orientale Italiana
| xausa |
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| 15/07/18 04:05 AM |
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Re: Some vintage African photos
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Quote:
Recovered these old images from broken links.
Some vintage photos.
Can anyone identify the individuals and any other details such as the date and place and circumstances?
This gentleman looks very familiar, and I should know his name.
I believe that Gentleman is Fletcher Jamieson, John Taylor's friend, mentioned repeatedly in his book "African Rifles and Cartridges," and pictured opposite page 278. wearing what appears to be the same hat.
| Louis |
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| 15/07/18 08:54 PM |
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Re: Some vintage African photos
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Following up on Lancaster's map of 'Africa Orientale Italiana', please find below an Africa colonial map that I have in my home office
This map is a school map and similar maps were available in all French classrooms until the mid-60's. Although this one is not dated it is for sure post 1936 (as Ethiopia is already mentioned as Italian) and pre-1943 (as Lebanon and Syria are still mentioned as being under French Mandate 1923-1943).
Of interest is that at that time only two countries i.e. Egypt and Liberia were independent in Africa; Egypt since 1922 (after being part of the British Empire) and Liberia since 1838 (although re-migration of former African American slaves to Africa by the American Colonization Society had started from 1822).
Africa was at that time shared by the British, the French, the Portuguese and the Spaniards. Germany, another big player in the 'Scramble for Africa' had had their African colonies i.e. Cameron & Togoland (now Cameroon & Togo), Sud West Afrika (now Namibia) and East Afrika (Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania (then called Tanganyika), some parts of Kenya and of Uganda) confiscated in the post-WW1 period and administrated from 1922 by the British, the South Africans, the Belgians and the French.
Louis
| lancaster |
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| 16/07/18 04:32 AM |
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Re: Some vintage African photos
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nice map but I would prefer a 1914 printed
interesting, this map predate the official italien AOI - "Africa Orientale Italiana" name with this designations
"Afrique Occidentale Francaise" and "Afrique Equatoriale Francaise", looks like the example for the italiens
| Louis |
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| 16/07/18 06:15 PM |
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Re: Some vintage African photos
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Lancaster, Africa pre-1918 colonisation maps attached, showing German colonies:
| MagnumHunter |
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| 02/08/18 12:41 PM |
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Re: Some vintage African photos
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Fletcher Jamieson with the buff. A pioneer in African photography. Died much too young. No telling what his legacy might have been......