Rare Africa Photos Go Online, Open New Options for Research

摘要

In June 2009, for the first time ever, a searchable collection of thousands of rare photographs chronicling Europe's colonization of East Africa became available to anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world, thanks to the efforts of staff at Northwestern University Library.rnThe Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960 began attracting the interest of Africa scholars and others in 2002 when it was acquired by Northwestern's Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. The library officially launched the online collection on 25th June.