Guide to the Sierra Leone photograph album Bernath Mss 306

Finding aid prepared by D. Tambo, 2010.

UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010

Phone: (805) 893-3062

Email: special@library.ucsb.edu; URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections

2010

Title: Sierra Leone photograph album

Identifier/Call Number: Bernath Mss 306

Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 0.2 linear feet (1 half-size document box)

Date (inclusive): 1906-1907

Abstract: The collection contains 71 black/white images, most silver gelatin snapshots, some with dates and captions in English, in a partially filled album.

Physical location: Del Norte

Language of Materials: The collection is in English.

General Physical Description note: (1 half-size document box)

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Sierra Leone photograph album, Bernath Mss 306. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Library purchase, 2008.

Existence and Location of Copies

DVD copy with album. In addition, DVD content has been copied onto "repository" drive in folders corresponding to the mss number.

Scope and Content

The collection contains 71 black/white images, most silver gelatin snapshots, some with dates and captions in English, in a partially filled album. The unnamed compiler likely was British, possibly a colonial administrator, businessman, or family member. Early images are of the outward bound voyage on the S.S. Nigeria in Nov. 1906, passengers and crew, as well as scenes of the coast, including Freetown. Also, other scenes of Freetown, including the wharf, Marley's Extension, Boia railway station and tracks, local inhabitants and residences, Tai River and village, Mano Station, town of Bo, Ayo Ville hotel at Waterloo, European-style buildings and construction, boat building for the Sierra Leone Coaling Company, King Tom Jetty, King Jemmy [Jimmy] Bay and boats, local military and band, with European officers, on parade and with artillery, European men (including a Dr. Bower) and women in groups at leisure and in hammocks. The latest dated photograph is Dec. 4, 1907.

There is no container list for this collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Photograph albums

Photographs

Sierra Leone--Pictorial works

Snapshots