Object Details
- General note
- M187a is the accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
- See more items in
- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 2 Items (Cartes-de-visite (card photographs); Portraits, 2.5 x 4 in.)
- Date
- circa 1872
- Container
- Item M187a
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- 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
- Two carte-de-visite portraits taken by the London Stereoscopic Company. In one of the portraits, dated in pencil "August 1872", Stanley is shown in safari dress holding a rifle, with a small African boy (identified as Kalulu, also known as Ndugu M'Hali). The other portrait is a head and shoulders profile of Stanley, wearing spectacles, and is inscribed on the verso "To Lieut L.A. Dawson from Henry M. Stanley."
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890731-1
