Picture postcards collected by Arthur W. Read

Single Item

MSS.Afr.r.233

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Picture postcards of scenes and people in British East Africa, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), collected by Arthur W. Read. Many of the cards are duplicates.

Dates

Creation: 1899-[ca. 1920]

Extent

139 items

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Afr.r.233].

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Shelfmark:

MSS.Afr.r.233

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 1442

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Arthur W. Read was an engineer on the Uganda Railway.

Other Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room and a handlist is also available for this collection.

Listed as no. 827 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).