Illustrated London News
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content: Historic Engravings collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 51 Items (Map Case M1 (folders 1-9), 21 1/2 x 16 in. (54.6 x 40.6 cm.) or smaller)
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content: 1851-1901
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
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content: EEPA.2010-003, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Arranged in chronological order.
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content: Items 43-45 contain engravings on both sides of the pages.  One side is listed as side A, the other side B.  For example, images 43-A and 43-B are on the same piece of paper, but one engraving is on the front, the other on the back.
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content: Series 1 includes 51 pages of engravings that were published in the Illustrated London News between August 23, 1851 to December 14, 1901.  Many of the engravings are part of the "Dr. Livingstone" or "Mr. Stanley" series.  Ships, animals, domestic scenes, maps, and battles are frequently illustrated, as are the Abyssinian, Griquas, Khoikoi, Ndebele, and Zulu peoples.  Locations depicted include the Abyssinia, Annesley Bay, Dahomey, Hadoda Pass, Hamhamo Spring, Keiskamma Gorge, Mount Kilimanjaro, Kongone River, Lake Tanganyika, Limpopo River, Matabili [now Zimbabwe], Morocco, Nigeria, Red Sea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tekonda Pass, Umizimkulu Waterfall, Zambesi Delta, and Zanzibar, among others.