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Streams in the desert : a picture of life in Livingstonia

Morrison, J. H. (James Horne), b. 1872, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · 1919 · London ; New York : Hodder and Stoughton · 6 pictures

A 1919 London and New York missionary account by J. H. Morrison, illustrated with photographs of daily life around Livingstonia in Malawi, written for a general readership interested in mission work. The photographs are plain documentary views: two girls posed outdoors, children playing in dirt, a rail trolley on a track, bundled baskets and a stockade gathering, with the subjects set against bare ground, thatched huts and scrubby trees, offering a designer straightforward reference for early twentieth-century African village scenes.

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