Collection: An Officer's Life (Part 1): Allenby, E allenby-5-2-00021-48757
Description
Two photographs: (1) View of steep hillside with straight pathway, houses below, titled, 'Jacob's Ladder, St Helena [South Atlantic]' [1890]; (2) View of valley with houses, sea in distance, titled 'St Helena' [1890]. From a photograph album compiled by Edmund Allenby. (Allenby 5/2)
Collection
An Officer's Life (Part 1): Allenby, E
Description
This first batch of photographs from an album belonging to Edmund Allenby provides a revealing insight into the personal life of an Army officer in the 1890s - showing life in Africa, military encampments, the natural environment and indigenous peoples, travels including St Helena including Napoleon's…
Collection Terms & Categories
- War/Campaign/Operation: Peacetime
- Africa: Africa - Southern
- Region: Europe
- Country: South Africa
- Theme (Main): Cultures & Customs
- Theme (Main): Daily Life
- Theme (Main): Empire & Commonwealth
- Theme (Main): Natural World
- Theme (Main): Travel & Exploration
- Subject: Animals & The Natural World
- Subject: Death & Dying
- Subject: Diplomacy
- Subject: Naval, Sea & Ships
- Subject: Parades, Drills & Manoeuvres
- Subject: Sport & Recreation
- Subject: Transport
- Subject: Women & Society
- Item: Photographic (album)
- Information: Visual
