Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
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- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Extent
- 317 Items
- Date
- 1663 - 1992
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Identifier
- SIL-CL.XXXX-0014, Series 5
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- This series primarily includes diaries, correspondence, journals, manuscripts, and photograph albums relating to exploration, travel, big-game hunting, and safaris in Africa. Of note, materials document the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and the Prince of Wales's trips to Africa 1928. Also contains items relating to Carl Ethan Akeley (1864-1926), Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894), Henry Arthur Dalrymple-White (1917-2006), A. Radclyffe Dugmore (1870-1955), Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) and Lady Dorothy Stanley (1855-1926).
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890674-4
