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
- 9 Items
- Date
- 1814 - 1955
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Identifier
- SIL-CL.XXXX-0014, Series 10
- 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 contains posters and broadsides that primarily promote lectures and addresses on big-game hunting and exploration of Africa. Several were designed by the artist A. Radclyffe Dugmore (1870-1955). Includes an announcement for an address by David Livingstone (1813-1873) in 1853, and a proclamation on game hunting restrictions in the "Cape district", circa 1814-1831.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890760-4
