Ouganda

1926 · Best.-Nr. 28492 — East Africa 1926. Album. Very good condition. Photographs of Edward P. Thompson's hunting expedition in Kenya and Uganda. Loosely inserted is Edward P. Thompson's travel visa for the UK which he is visiting on his trip back to the USA. Thompson was born in 1873 in North Conway Ohio and worked as a Consulting Engineer. The visa has red seal with a pie shaped section cut away with original signatures photograph of Thompson and stamps on verso. 105 photographs of African animals and carcasses trigger warning landscapes and people of which 44 are of natives 5 of Thompson plus 28 postcards. Postcard photos by Martin Johnson and Paul Hofler & A.H. Wardle of Nairobi. Two personal portraits of Thompson on horseback in western gear taken at Pendleton Oregon in 1932 - both made into post cards one with a pen inscription "Dear Hazel The big Round up show is over and the gay holiday . flags and buntings have disappeared." Housed in a typical 1920's album 12 x 7" binder embossed with an illustration and the word 'fotografs'. Inside is black craft paper leaves holding 2 to 3 images per page. Album spine rubbed photographs and postcards in very good condition postcards visa with original folds some browning at top otherwise vgc. unknown