Object Details
- General note
- Eleven of the photographs are captioned. The album is signed by Laws in ink on the inside cover "Robert Laws, Livingstonia" alongside a photograph, signed on verso, of Booker T. Washington. Ph022 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)
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- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 9: Photographs
- Extent
- 1 Album (Photograph albums, 10 x 8.5 in. (photographs), 9.25 x 7.75 x 1in. (album), 10.5 x 9.5 x 1.5 in. (box))
- Date
- circa 1895 - 1902
- Container
- Item Ph022
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Albums
- 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
- The photographs also include those showing village life in the region of Livingstonia.;Dr. Laws was director of the Livingstonia Mission from 1875 to 1927. He met Booker T. Washington, whom he greatly admired, in 1909.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890755-3
