Beloit African Expedition
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pond, Alonzo W. (Alonzo William), 1894-1986
label: Collection Creator
content: Beloit College
label: Collection Creator
content: Pond, Dorothy L.
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content: Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection
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content: Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection / Series 1: Films
unitdate: label: Date
content: Spring 1930
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film footage shot by Chuck Nash, a Beloit college student, during the 1930 Beloit College/Logan Museum archaeological expedition to northern Algeria led by Alonzo Pond. Footage includes: the departure from Washington, D.C., and shipboard activities on the USS France; passage through the Straits of Gibraltar; street scenes in Canrobert, Algeria; excavations at dig sites with Arab workers; Roman ruins at Kramica and Timgad; Arab women washing clothes and drawing well water; the oasis and town of El Kantara at the mouth of the Sahara; Arabs on camelback near Biskra; scenes in Arab bazaar, French funeral with a horsedrawn hearse, and African (unidentified) street musicians in Biskra; street scenes in Paris; the return to New York on the USS Leviathan; and scenes in Chicago.