Memoirs of Otto Markus as pioneer, trader, and Director and Chairman of the East African Trading Company. Typescript.
Dates
- Creation: 1903-1949
Extent
131 ff.
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Afr.s.1764].
Shelfmark:
MSS.Afr.s.1764
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 3129
Biographical / Historical
Otto Markus, pioneer and trader in British East Africa [now Kenya]. He formed the East African Trading Company in ca.1900 (he was Director and Chairman) and the Old East African Trading Company in 1923.
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 1155 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Custodial History
Deposited with the Oxford Development Records Project.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was transferred to the library from the Oxford Development Records Project.
Subject
- Markus | Otto | fl 1900-1949 | pioneer and trader in Africa (Person)
- East African Trading Company (Organisation)
- Old East African Trading Company (Organisation)
- Title
- Memoirs of Otto Markus
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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