Beschreibung:

STANLEY'S PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS The Livingstone Search Expedition (1871-1872), the Anglo-American Trans-Africa Expedition (1874-1877) and the Congo Expedition (1879-1882): Two scrap-albums including photographs, prints, drawings, cuttings and ephemera relating to Stanley's great African journeys, the albums 11¾ x 10in. (29.8 x 25.4cm.) and 12 1/8 x 10¼in. (30.7 x 26.1cm) overall Album 1 THE LIVINGSTONE SEARCH EXPEDITION (1871-1872): Three gelatin silver prints of Stanley, his interpreter Selim and Kalulu, posing with rifles, on entering Bagamoyo, May 1872; Oswell Livingstone and Stanley, Zanzibar, late April 1872 (two); with a carte de visite of 'MR. STANLEY IN THE DRESS HE WORE WHEN HE MET DR LIVINGSTONE IN AFRICA' by Stereocopic and Photographic Co., (London); A portrait of Selim; 'Two Chiefs'; Stanley posing with Farquhar(?) and an Arab, captioned 'Serpa Pula'(?) (Zanzibar, 1871) and others ANGLO-AMERICAN TRANS-AFRICA EXPEDITION (1874-1877): Eleven contact prints taken on the expedition including 'Lady Alice in the pool of Ukerere, Victoria Nyanza', 'Ripon Falls, Victoria Nyanza', 'View from the roof of Mr Augustus Sparhawk's House. Frank Pocock. Frederick Barker. A Zanzibar boy. Edward Pocock. Kalulu..', 'Mtesa and his Chiefs' and others; 'Expedition Landing at Kabinda' (1877); 6 photographs of Zanzibar (1870s); two of Admiralty House, Simonstown (1877) (one of Stanley and his men captioned 'After descent of the Congo'); and a pencil sketch by Stanley titled 'Sketch of a portion of the Congo Cataracts below Stanley Pool' and dated 'ruanza Falls 15.1.77'. THE CONGO EXPEDITION (1879-1882) Forty-six contact prints including headquarters at Vivi, and the Congo with photographs of 'Camp in the bush', Stanley Pool and Leopoldville, Stanley and his staff, his porters, 'Crossing a river with the 'En Avant'' and others, with approximately seventy-seven contact prints and photographs of the Congo and region, 16 portraits of officers of the Congo Council (including Swinbune, Vetch, de Winton, Elliot and others', two of Stanley, one captioned by Stanley 'HM Stanley 1874'; and eighteen photographs of Stanley's illuminated diplomas and awards; and a humorous watercolour 'On Stanley Pool Civilization advances by leaps and bounds' by 'JFH. Xmas 1884' Album 2 ANGLO-AMERICAN TRANS-AFRICAN EXPEDITION (1874-1877): Journey's End - the arrival at Kabinda (J. Silveira, photographer, St Paul de Loanda, August 1877); Views of Zanzibar, albumen prints, 1870s; one contact print of a Congo river scene taken by Stanley; miscellaneous press cuttings, 1877-78 'STANLEY IN LONDON. He is entertained at dinner by the Prince of Wales...'; and a watercolour by O'Neill, 'The grave of Francis Barker of Stanley's Expedition at Kagei. Usukuma?' THE CONGO EXPEDITION, 1879-1882 Forty-five contact prints including views taken at Vivi, and on the Congo during the expedition, together with proof engravings of the plates for Stanley's The Congo (1885) and other miscellaneous cuttings. (2)