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Description and travel
Discovery and exploration
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Clothing & dress
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Africans
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Bandoni, L
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Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850
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Branston, Allen Robert, 1778-1827
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Reading, Joseph H. (Joseph Hankinson)
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Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)
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The earth and its inhabitants, Africa
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Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile
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Nigeria, its peoples and its problems
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Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali ; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe
15
Savage Africa; being the narrative of a tour in equatorial, southwestern and northwestern Africa; with notes on the habits of the gorilla; on the existence of unicorns and tailed men; on the slave-trade; on the origin, character and capabilities of the Negro, and on the future civilization of Africa
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Nile River Valley
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Nigeria
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Ethiopia
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Nubia
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Illustrations
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Photographs
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Books
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D. Appleton
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Harper
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Smith, Elder
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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman
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Harper & Brothers
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Schomburg Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
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Schomburg Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
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A Moorish Man and Woman on th…
The Apparel, of the Hottentot…
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A Negroe Man and Woman on the…
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Klaas, A favourite Hottentot …
Ragel, A Female Hottentot.
Narina, A Young Gonaquais.
A Caffre.
View of the Country at the Ca…
Fortified house of Melek Tumb…
Ruin of an Ethiopian Fort.
From a tomb excavated out of …
Fortified residence of the an…
Travels in Ethiopia above the…
Travels in Ethiopia. Chapter …
Sheakh Besher, the present Me…
Exterior of a Dongolah cottag…
Interior of a Dongolah cottag…
Cataract of Hennek.
Shageea fighting.
Guitar of the Shageea
2nd Cataract of the Nile.
Grand Procession. Part 3. Fro…
Grand Procession. Part 4. Fro…
Gezo,King of Dahomey.
The reception of the " Ah-Hau…
The slave chain.
The fetish man, and the Gover…
Specimens of the Vahie phonet…
Native women, Gold Coast.
Lady of high rank, Old Calaba…
Native village near Axim, Gol…
A bit of the Kamerun beach, l…
An African belle.
Native women, Accra, Gold Coa…
A Mano King [in bowler hat.]
A Gio King [sitting] with his…
Sketch map of Africa
Women and children of Porto-G…
A Mohammedan Yoruba trader.
Cape Coast-seaward view.
Barge on the Old Calabar rive…
Goree-landing stage and fort.
General view of Elmina.
The earth and its inhabitants…
Toucouleur types - the interp…
Agni type.