NU creates online collection of African photos
Posted June 25, 2009 11:00 pm
Northwestern University is making a rare collection of photographs of East Africa available online.
The searchable database chronicles the colonization of East Africa from 1860 to 1960.
More than 7,000 photos are in the collection. It was acquired in 2002 by Northwestern's Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies.
Library curator David Easterbrook says putting the photos online gives an "unprecedented opportunity" for scholars.
The collection includes formal and informal portraits, including some of slaves, slave traders, missionaries and colonial officials.
<p class="factboxtextbold12col"><a href="http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/winterton" target="new"><b>www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/winterton</b></a></p>