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    HISTORICAL

    Black & white stills

    CHINA

    Yenan, 1944 (Chinese Communist Stronghold)

    Red Army

    Chinese Communist leaders, including: Mao Tse Tung, Chu-Teh, Chou En Lai, Yeh Chien Chien Ying, Lin Piao

    Susumu Okano, Head of Japanese Communist Party

    American Foreign Service Officers, Gen. Hurley, Maj. Barrett, Lt. Herbert Hitch, Captain Champion, Peterkin, Whittlesey, Hatem

    Brooks Atkinson, Lady Lindsay of Birken

    Chiang Kai Shek

    RHODESIA

    Cecil Rhodes

    Cecil Rhodes and group of followers

    Rhodes in Matopo Hills

    Death mask of Cecil Rhodes

    Matabele warrior,  circa 1890

    Armed whites with black prisoners, caption: “Matabele murderers at Fort Mangwe”

    African woman with child

    Hanging a  native

    SOUTH AFRICA

    19th and 20th centuries

    Anglo-Boer War

    TRANSKEI

    People

    Sekukuni (Bapedi chief)

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Queen Victoria and family, original photo cards

    ZULULAND

    Zulu Wars

    Bambata Rebellion, 1906

    KAHNAWAKE, CANADA, 1956

    People and buildings

    EGYPT, 1961

    Egyptian village, Harrania: people, dwellings, tapestries.

    Cairo: views and people

    The pyramids

    The Nile

    Karnak

    NOTE: the colour photos - except for two pix of tapestries - are badly faded, almost to sepia.

    MEXICO, 1963

    Colour and black & white

    Wide variety of people, places, archaeology

    BRITISH HONDURAS (later BELIZE), 1963

    Colour and black & white

    Portraits

    Belize, people and buildings

    Policemen

    Bottles recovered from the ocean

    Volunteer force on parade

    Aerial views

    Mountain Pine Ridge

    Kekchi Indians, various; traditional dance

    Punta Gorda

    Black Caribs, including dancing

    Seaside

    River fishing

    Workers sorting oranges

    Small plane

    Aerials

    JAMAICA, 1964

    Views, people, parrots, buildings, festival dancers, country scenes

    CUBA, 1964

    All black & white

    Havana: people and buildings

    May 1 parade: Fidel Castro makes speech, Che Guevare listens, marchers, faces in

           Crowd

    Fidel making speech in auditorium

    Fidel posters

    Revolutionary posters

    Marti statue

                Havana carnival

                Shooting film “SOY CUBA” on university steps

                Russian film director Mihail Kalatazov

                Cameraman Urusevsk

                Alfredo Guevara, head of ICAIC

                Military band

    Cane cutting

    Flora

    Artist Portocarrero with his paintings

    Revolutionary art

    Indian dancer Hemlata Devi Hakansson

    Haitian dancer

    Nightclub and performers

    Ballet dancers and musicians

    Beach at Bay of Pigs

    Carib Indian artefacts

    LONDON, ENGLAND, 1965/1966

    Carnaby Street

    Royal Hospital, Chelsea

    Portobello Road antiques market

    LONDON, ENGLAND, JULY 1967

    Congress on the Anatomy of Violence & the Dialectics of Liberation

    Held at the Roundhouse

    Audience

    Personalities: Allen Ginsberg, R.D. Laing, Alan Berke, Paul Sweezey, Stokely Carmichael, Michael X, Julian Beck (Living Theatre)

    NOTE: SOME NEGATIVES VERY THIN

    DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 1967

    Santiago: people and views, soldiers

    Rural views

    Church, graveyard

    The Cibao: people and views

    HAITI, 1967

    Port-au-Prince: views, people, folk art

    CHICAGO, 1968.  Democratic Convention riots

    ISRAEL, 1969

    People and places

    EGYPT, 1970

    Suez Canal defences

    Cairo: views and people

    JORDAN, 1970

    Petra, ancient city

    Desert views

    Camels

    WOUNDED KNEE, 1973

    Photos from the occupation of the historical site by American Indian Movement

    SIERRA LEONE, 1974

    Black & white only

    Town scenes and people

    NIGERIA, 1974

    Lagos: town views, people, harbour, folk art,

    Northern Nigeria: buildings, people, rural scenes

    LESOTHO, 1974

    Countryside, rural scenes, bicycle spinning wheel

    SOUTH AFRICA, 1974

    Eastern Transvaal: rural scenes, Swazi traditional dwellings

    E. HOWARD HUNT, 1974

    Photos relating to Hunt's earlier life (all b&w):

          Brown University

          World War II

          Postwar

          Hollywood writer

          CIA operative

    Senate Hearings on Watergate (b&w)

    Hunt's teacher, Prof. I.J. Kapstein (b&w)

    ?? of Brigade 2506 (b&w)

    Hunt at his home in Virginia, April 1974 (colour)

    Hunt at his home in Virginia, with daughters, with film crew (b&w)

    Miami (colour):

          Memorial to Brigade 2506

          Marble map of Cuba

          Hunt's old Miami house

          Hunt's current Miami house

          Views of Cuban Miami

    Hamburg, NY (colour), where Hunt was raised

    Artwork

    Newspaper clippings, with photos, relating to Hunt's life

    SWAZILAND, 1975

    Nature reserve: wildlife, fauna

    Views, people, border with South Africa, gambling, female forestry workers, waterfall

    CUBA, 1975

    Black & white and colour

    Santiago: views and people, vintage cars

                   Moncada Barracks

    Campo school

    Bohio: peasants' dwelling

    Countryside

    Havana views and people

    Fidel's older brother

    Beach

    NEWFOUNDLAND, 1975

    Election period

    Corner Brook: views

    Joey Smallwood in TV studio, and making speech; Smallwood in his garden; Smallwood's

              house, including aerial; Smallwood speaking with neighbour

    Jeff Sterling in TV studio

    St. John's: people and views

    Coastal views

    Aerial views, including moose

    MOZAMBIQUE, 1975

    A few shots

    ARIZONA, 1976

    Some views

       

    NAMIBIA, 1976

    Colour

    Some aerial views

    RHODESIA, 1976

    CIVIL WAR

    (Black & white and colour)

    Military passing-out parade: military, weapons, athletics, school children

    Peter Van Der Byl (Minister of Defence) gives speech

    Africans

    “Protected village” fenced in by barbed wire and protected by soldiers to prevent contact between villagers and “ters” (“terrorists”)

    White sergeant-major with black troops

    Tribal reserve: dwellings, animals, people

    Salisbury (pre-Harare): Rhodes statue, buildings, people, street scenes, railway station, police, soldiers

    Alan Savory, opponent of war

    Military funeral

    Game of bowls

    P.M. Ian Smith's residence; P.M. Smith

    White farm: white family, black nanny with white child, ridgeback dog, tobacco barn, farm school, farmworkers, workers prepare for dance, dance

    Victoria Falls

    Bushman paintings

    Game reserve

    SOUTH AFRICA, 1976

    Ndebele Village

    Soweto

    Black soccer match

    White schoolboys play rugby in bare feet

    White car, black chauffeur

    Crossroads shantytown

    Transkei views

    Eastern Transvaal

    Johannesburg views

    Minehead

    Black nanny with black baby and white child

    Rand Afrikaans University

    Pretoria: Strydom statue, university, professors, students, covered wagon, Afrikaner monument

    Bridge over Fish River

    Fort Hare University, subversive broadsheet on wall

    Port Elizabeth

    André Brink

    1820 Settlers statue, Grahamstown

    Young musicians

    Veldt scenes, back-hoe

    Mine dancers

    LESOTHO, 1978

    Artist who weaves art in trees

    Weavers

    Views of Lesotho

    People, dwellings, agriculture, horseman

    Maseru (capital): views, people, statue of Basuto warrior, statue of Moshoeshoe (founder of

      Basuto nation)

    National flag

    Steam train engine

    Anti-apartheid activist Mrs. Mafeking (in forced exile)

    Molefi Pheto, South African poet (in exile)

    Sam ?, PAC activist who escaped from South African jail, school-teacher

    Student activists in exile.  Some of these were probably later murdered in a terrorist attack

      By South African military on Maseru

    Male traditional dancers

    Damani, historian

    BOTSWANA, 1978

    Gaberone, capital: views,  people, pastimes

    Gaberone buildings: British High Commission, Anglo-American building, Parliamentary

         building, war memorial, among others

    Countryside: dwellings, people, donkey cart, bullock cart, rural activities, baobab tree, rural

        Graveyard

    Birds

    Joe Matthews, South African academic and writer, in exile

    Henry ? ANC activist in exile

    Papa ?  ANC activist in exile

    Joe Gqabi, ANC activist in exile.  Later murdered by South African government operatives

    Lanford Ganyile, old activist from 1960 Transkei uprising, in exile

    Okavango Delta: views , animals, people, dwellings

    ZAMBIA, 1978

    Lusaka (capital): views, dwellings, people, flora

    TANZANIA, 1978

    Dar-es-Salaam (capital): views and people

    ANC HQ: ANC leader Mac Maharaj and others

    ANC member Don Ngubeni at Radio Freedom (ANC radio-in-exile)

    Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) training camp for South African guerrillas

    PAC leader Elias Ntloedibe

    SOUTH AFRICA, 1978

    Eastern Transkei: rural views and people

    NIGERIA, 1982

    INAUGURATION OF 51st EMIR of KATSINA, NIGERIA

    His Highness Alhaji Muhammadu Usman Kabir

    February, 1982

    Once-in-a-lifetime event.

    Colourful parade of horsemen and liveried retainers, with drums and other indigenous musical instruments, swords and muskets, outside palace.

    Over 100 slides and 35mm prints

    Portraits of Nigerians

    Market scenes

    Shop-owners seated in their stalls

    Street vendor carrying goods on tray on head

    Gardener with raised bed garden watering his vegetables

    Fruitbats, including dead male

    Baobab tree

    2 Nigerians carry portrait of Pope

    Hairstyles for “The Modern Barbing Centre”

    Nature park with wildlife

    Planting rice

    Open air mosque, Kano, with worshippers

    Dam construction, Bauchi province

    Views of Lagos, buildings, street scenes

    Lagos harbour

    Boatmen

    Village market

    Sugar cane vendors

    Pole vaulting

    Yellow bus

    Fisherman

    Military bandsmen in white uniforms

    Aerial views of collection of huts

    Newspaper vendor

    Tanker in harbour

    Artwork

    Power line

    Supermarket

    Olesegun Obosanjo, chicken farmer, former general and head of state, and future head of state  

    LEBANON, 1983

    Bombing of American Embassy, 19/4/1983

    Lebanon: views and people

                   Beirut: people, buildings, refugee camp, damage from civil war.St. George Hotel,

                      war-damaged sports stadium, corniche,American University, American patrol,

                   Sidon: people, buildings, refugee camp

                   South Lebanon: village, war damage, refugees, Unicef building, UN checkpoint,

                       Belfort Castle

    ISRAEL, 1983

    Jerusalem: views and people.

    East Jerusalem: views and people, Israeli farmers hiring Arab labour, mosque,

    West Bank: Afrat settlement: Shaked (town planner of Afrat), Ben Ari family,

                       Qiryat Arba settlement: Ha'etzni

                       Bethlehem, village, deserted refugee camp near Jericho, Palestinian refugee

                       camp, destroyed olive tree, man ploughing with  mule, Israeli soldiers,

                       Major Gissan, military spokesman, map of West Bank, Israeli school  

                       children with bus, scenery near Hamra (Israeli settlement). .  Village of El

                       Khader, Israeli settlement of Daniel.  Israeli settlement of Ofra; Abe Berman,

                       Zev and family.  El Hindi family, living outside Ofra.  Settlement of Ma'ale

                       Adumin.  Rashid Ali Hijazi, whose land Ma'ale Adumin was built on.

                       Settlements of El Azar, Alon Shvut. Nablus.  Settlement ads and posters.

    Jordan Valley: Arab farm, Biddya: onion field, banana plantation,  wheat-field, orange trees,

                        olive tree.  Be'it Dajan: Shaka family, Ibrahim Matar.

    Allenby Bridge crossing to Jordan.

                       

    SOUTH AFRICA, 1985

    Transkei: people and places

                  migrant workers

                  posters

                  people in traditional dress

                  roof thatching

                  body adornments

                  black township

                  grave markers

    SOUTH AFRICA, 1990

    Soweto: views  and people

                 school, schoolchildren, classroom

                 Funeral, with parade of bands; graveyard

                 Peter Ngwenya, director of Soweto Children's Theatre

                 People and dwellings

                 Zionist Church meeting

                 Rally at sports stadium for re-inauguration of the Communist Party, with Nelson

                      and Winnie Mandela, Joe Slovo, Chris Hani (later murdered)

    Market Theatre

    Children's entertainment,  outdoors at Market Theatre

    Dancers outside Market Theatre

    FUBA exterior

    Soweto Children's Theatre in rehearsal

    FUBA: James Mthoba in rehearsal for CARDS UP!

    Johannesburg: Bellevue and Yeoville

    Mabopane (black township): pro-ANC demo, with marchers

    Pretoria: workers demonstrate

    Cape Town: some views

    ZIMBABWE,

    Harare: buildings and people

    Rural scenes and people

    AIDS activists and demonstration, AIDS posters

    SOUTH AFRICA, 1995

    Zulu-Natal

    Valley Trust, Botha's Hill.  Clinic: patients, murals

    Various traditional healers, their medicines (muti), patients, traditional dress

    BLACK SEA REGION,

    Trabizon

    Novorossirsk

    Yalta

    Odessa

    Danube Delta

    Istanbul

    DANUBE REGION,

    Danube River, Passau to delta

    Passau

    Mauthausen concentration camp

    Vienna

    Bratislava

    Gabcikovo Dam

    Budapest

    Mohacs

    Novi Sad (including bombed bridges)

    Iron Gate, Romania

    Bulgaria

    Bucharest

    Tulcea

    PERSONALITIES

    Olesegun Abasanjo

    Ray Alexander

    Lindsay Anderson, film director

    Ronald Biggs, British Great Train Robber

    André Brink, South African novelist

    Stokely Carmichael

    Fidel Castro

    Peter Cook

    Costa-Gavras  

    Ross Devenish, South African theatre, film, and tv director

    John Emmerson, Foreign Service Officer

    Sen. Fulbright

    Bill Foure, South African film director

    Ken Gampu, South African actor

    Alfredo Guevara, head of ICAIC, Cuba

    Ernest Hemingway

    E. Howard Hunt, Watergate conspirator

    John Kani, South African actor

    Gibson Kente, South African dramatist

    R.D. Laing

    Anthony Lewis, journalist

    Ray Ludden, Foreign Service Officer

    Arthur Maimane, South African journalist

    John Matshikiza, South African actor and writer

    Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor

    Dudley Moore

    James Mthoba, South African dramatist

    Thami Mzwai, South African journalist

    Lewis Nkosi, South African writer

    Patriarch Bartholomew I

    Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot

    Dolly Rathebe, South African singer and actress

    Lionel Rogosin,  American  film director

    Jerry Rubin

    Erica Rutherford, Canadian artist

    George Seldes, journalist

    Wally Serote, South African writer

    Jack Service, Foreign Service Officer

    Oliver Schmitz, South African film director

    William Shatner

    Joey Smallwood

    Jeff Sterling

    George Stevens, Jr.

    Paul Sweezey

    Antony Thomas, South African film and tv director

    Joe Thloloe, South African journalist

    Jamie Uys, South African film director

    Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister

    Michael X