{"id":5038,"date":"2023-02-24T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:04","slug":"5038","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2023\/02\/24\/5038\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fcollections%2Fafricana-historic-postcard-collection%2Fabout-this-collection&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0eeca767248d4d5a5df008db1644fdcb%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638128257794027708%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=laxiYVvIJMp8k7M8ohlIfS6O3bG3lu5GWqM8t19W21w%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Africana Historic Postcard Collection.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New from the Library of Congress, more than 1,500 digitised photograph postcards from European colonial territories from the 1890s \u2013 1960s. Most before 1930. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most are photos from colonial administrators and European missionaries. There are also ethnographic items and some\u00a0 unique African photographer works including : Demba N\u2019Diaye from Senegal, W.S. Johnston from Gold Coast (now Ghana) or Sierra Leone, F.W.H. Arkurst from Gold Coast, Frederick Grant from Gold Coast, N. Walwin Holm from Gold Coast and Alex Agbablo Accolatse from Togo.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/international-collections\/2017\/02\/africana-historic-postcard-collection\/\">blog<\/a> explains more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africana Historic Postcard Collection. New from the Library of Congress, more than 1,500 digitised photograph postcards from European colonial territories from the 1890s \u2013 1960s. Most before 1930. Most are photos from colonial administrators and European missionaries. There are also ethnographic items and some\u00a0 unique African photographer works including : Demba N\u2019Diaye from Senegal, W.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[17,759,786,207],"class_list":["post-5038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-africa","tag-colonisation","tag-photographs","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}