Photos from Africa 1937
All photos on this page by Aa. V. Andersen 1937
Copyright © Jacob
Crawfurd - crawfurd.dk 1996-2010. All Rights Reserved.
The photos on these pages are from a journey around colonial Africa
in 1937. My grandfather, who took the photographs, wrote articles
in Danish magazines about what he saw on 'the dark continent', which
was indeed very far away. Thank God, much has changed since the
old days of black and white.
On this page: Angola, Namibia and South Africa
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Eco-tourism in October 1937: English women buying leopard
skins in Lobito, Portuguese Angola. The price of a skin was
5 or 6 shillings.
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In the late 19th century a railway was constructed in German
West Africa (Namibia). In 1902 the first train arrived in
Windhoek from Swakopmund. This train was photographed outside
Swakopmund on October 7, 1937.
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Woman in Swakopmund carrying her iron-box on the head.
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Lüderitz Bay, a fishing town in Namibia. The town was
first discovered in 1487 by the Portuguese explorer Bartolomé
Diaz. In 1883 it became the first territory in South-West
Africa to be colonised by Germany. It was then named after
the merchant Adolf Lüderitz.
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"View from the diamond-mountain of Lüderitz Bay".
October 8, 1937. The houses in Lüderitz Bay is also today
in german style architecture.
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"Diamond-fields" near Lüderitz Bay: "Warning.
Penalty £500 or one years imprisonment. Prohibited diamond
area. Keep to the road." This was the first diamond area
in South-West Africa.
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"Cape of Good hope" rises 249m above the sea. Cape
point is situated near Cape Town, South Africa. Monuments
at the site marks the crossing of navigators Bartholomew Diaz
and Vasco Da Gama, but Cape of Good Hope is not the southernmost
tip of Africa, as many people believe. The Atlantic and Indian
Ocean meet at Cape Agulha.
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The colonial town was build
between 1858 and 1862. In 1937 PE had approximately 100,000
citizens - today it is the fifth largest city in South Africa
with a population of over 1,2 million.
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