Some cool photo library images:
The View from Hotel, from Souvenir of Victoria Falls
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: The railway reached Victoria Falls in 1905 leading it to be promoted as "the World's Riviera". Percy M. Clark captured these photos of the falls and sold them to travelers as souvenirs.
Creator/Photographer: Percy M. Clark
Birth Date: 1874
Death Date: 1937
Medium: Medium unknown
Dimensions: 6 in x 8.25 in
Date: c. 1906
Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: Russell E. Train Africana Collection - The Russell E. Train Africana Collection includes approximately 2,000 books and an extensive array of manuscripts, photographs, watercolors, sketches, maps, newspaper clippings, artifacts and other ephemera ranging from the late 18th to mid-20th centuries, with a concentration on items relating to early British and American explorers. The famous missionary David Livingstone and journalist Henry Stanley, as well as President Theodore Roosevelt, a renowned conservationist of his time, are well represented with numerous books by and about them, manuscript letters, privately printed materials, dozens of photographs and other ephemera. Some of the published books in the collection are presentation copies autographed by the author, while others have original artwork or engravings.
Gift line: Gift of Russell E. Train
Accession number: SIL28-270-03
