[Edgeworth : South Africa album]
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Features photographs of colonial life in Africa, including social gatherings among colonials, their residences, motor cars and boating expeditions, African people at work, an African soldier and annotated loose photograph of a convoy crossing the Assegai River in Piet Retief, South Africa. Also included are photographs of assorted sites of antiquarian interest in Ireland, including Blarney Castle and the Rock of Cashel, and of people socialising outside the Pavilion Bar in Trinity College Dublin.
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| Notes: | 2 prints are loose. See also Albums 200-213 and Kenneth Edgeworth Photographic Collection vtls 314050. Engineer, economist and astronomer, Edgeworth (1880-1972) was born in Daramona House, Street, Co. Westmeath. He served in the Royal Engineers and Royal Signals, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1926, after which he worked for the British Department of Posts and Telegraphs in Sudan. During his later years, spent in Cherbury, Booterstown, Co. Dublin, he published work on astronomy and economics. Physical description: prints 23 : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. Physical description: 1 box ; mounted, in phase box. Physical description: album 1. Citations/References: "Into The Light: an Illustrated Guide to the Photographic Collections in the National Library of Ireland" by Sarah Rouse, Dublin, NLI Publications, 1998, pp 31. Finding Aids: See Album List. more |
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[ca. 1920s]
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