Abyssinian scrapbooks
Publisher: United States Naval Academy Library
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Annapolis
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Skinner, Robert Peet, 1866-1960.; Ethiopia -- Description and travel.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Ethiopa -- Sources.; Ethiopia -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.
Description: "Scrapbooks compiled by Robert P. Skinner, U.S. Consul General at Marseilles, relating to his diplomatic mission to the court of Menelik II, Emperor of Abyssinia (now called Ethiopia) in 1903-04.  One scrapbook consists of photographs with captions clipped from Skinner's book 'Abyssinia of To-Day' or handwritten by Mr. or Mrs. Skinner.  The other scrapbooks consist of clippings from newspapers and a few magazines, most in English but some in other languages.  A consular report on Abyssinia dated April 29, 1904 is also included"--The Library of Congress Guide to the Microform Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, online version.
Notes: Title from container.
"This film comprises four scrapbooks of clippings and photographs compiled by the late Robert P. Skinner of Belfast, Maine, related to the diplomatic mission which Mr. Skinner led to the court of Menelik II, Emperor of Abyssinia (Ethopia) in 1903-04."--Introduction.
Pages at beginning filmed out of sequence.