HIST 1301: The African Experience Since 1800

Approximately 600 examples from Northwestern University's collection of over 4000 Africana posters.

This digital collection includes more than 3000 photographs of the American Missionary Association beginning in the late nineteenth century. Photographers working with AMA traveled through urban and rural communities within the continental United States of America, as well as to foreign lands, to visually record the environments and people who lived within them.

This University of Cologne database contains over 3,000 postcards depicting colonialism and the African diaspora.

Early European caricatures and depictions of Africa and Africans in French periodicals

Documenting the African colonial era to the dawn of independence. The collection portrays both African life and European life in Africa in all its manifestations. It chronicles the daily experience of colonial residents: how they traveled, the lives they created for themselves, their social activities, and their early interaction with the rest of Africa. There are images of Europeans on hunting safaris, of African chiefs and royalty, and of the African landscape, revealing how it changed over time.

Primarily portraits, mostly of women, taken in the 1990s

Images of textiles, architecture, pottery, metalwork and other art, as well as people going about their daily business.

21 black and white photographs from the 19th century taken by C.S. de Joux.

Images of African daily life date from the mid-20th century