Africa Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7
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Africa Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7 Oblong folio album (32 x 50cm), reversed calf binding, lettered 'Middle-East & East Africa 1946-1947' on front cover in blind, containing 195 gelatin silver print photographs (nearly all 9 x 14cm), slit-mounted on paper leaves, a few with typescript captions verso, and 52 studio photographs or real-photo postcards (many signed A. Parodi on reverse, printed on matt cream card stock with deckle edges), similarly mounted, depicting urban, rural, village and desert scenes mainly apparently in Eritrea (Keren, Asmara, Agordat, etc.), Libya (Tripoli) and Egypt (the Nile, Muqattam Hills with Sultan Hassan Mosque in foreground), European officials and local figures and ethnographic 'types', and similar, together with an additional 130 loose photographs (various dimensions), many with mounted typescript captions in Italian and depicting rallies and troops of the 'Lega Mussulmana dell'Eritrea' (Independent Moslem League), and a small selection of passes and related documents belonging to one K. D. Heath of the British delegation
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Africa Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7
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