Historical Objects
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This section collects historical objects relevant to One More Voice and so complements the items found on the pages for critically-edited archival texts , book-length published works , and motions pictures . The section includes images (photographs and illustrations) of the creators featured on the site, a selection of relevant manuscripts , and a small set of creative works (paintings, photographs, other material objects), including works by contemporaneous non-European artists. Creator images are arranged alphabetically by subject, while manuscripts and creatives works are organized by creator. For each item, the page provides a thumbnail image that links to the full documentary record for the given item and to a larger-resolution, uncropped version of the item image.
Click on thumbnails for item details and uncropped images
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Edward Wilmot Blyden (between 1851 and 1860)
Edward Wilmot Blyden (1894)
Edward Wilmot Blyden (late nineteenth or early twentieth century)
Edward Wilmot Blyden (1910)
Frederick Douglass (c.1847-c.1852)
E. Pauline Johnson (late nineteenth century)
E. Pauline Johnson (early twentieth century)
E. Pauline Johnson (early twentieth century)
E. Pauline Johnson (early twentieth century)
E. Pauline Johnson (early twentieth century)
E. Pauline Johnson (1904)
Apolo Kagwa, Katikiro of Uganda, and His Son (early twentieth century)
Semane Khama and Schoolchildren (early twentieth century)
Semane Khama (early twentieth century)
Semane Khama and Children (1911)
Tshekedi, Seretse, and Semane Khama (early twentieth century)
Tshekedi and Semane Khama (early twentieth century)
Elizabeth Lilith M’belle (“Mrs. S.T. Plaatje”) (early twentieth century)
Claude McKay (c.1912-c.1920)
Claude McKay (1923)
Claude McKay and Baroness Von Freytag-Loringhoven (before 1928)
Ham Mukasa and Apolo Kagwa (early twentieth century)
Ham Mukasa, with Father, Wife, and Children (early twentieth century)
Dhan Gopal Mukerji (early twentieth century)
Sarojini Naidu (early twentieth century)
Solomon T. Plaatje (early twentieth century)
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (late nineteenth century)
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (late nineteenth century)
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (1898)
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati and Manoramabai (early twentieth century)
Sechele (second half of nineteenth century)
Sechele (second half of nineteenth century)
Kgosi Sechele and MmaKgari (late nineteenth century)
Tausé Soga and Her Family (1894)
Cornelia Sorabji (late nineteenth or early twentieth century)
Abdulla Susi, James Chuma, and others (1874)
James Chuma and Abdullah Susi with David Livingstone's effects (1874)
Abdulla Susi, James Chuma, and others (1874)
Abdullah Susi (Mislabeled Jacob Wainwright) (c.1874)
Rabindranath Tagore (c.1915-c.1920)
Rabindarath Tagore (May 1916)
Rabindranath Tagor (May 1916)
Rabindarath Tagore (21 November 1916)
Rabindranath Tagore (c.1916)
Rabindranath Tagore (c.1917)
Jan Tzatzoe (Dyani Tshatshu) (late nineteenth century)
Swami Vivekanada (c.1893)
Jacob Wainwright with David Livingstone’s Coffin and Travelling Trunks (1874)
Jacob Wainwright with David Livingstone’s Coffin (1874)
Jacob Wainwright (c.1874)
Jacob Wainwright (c.1874)
Onoto Watanna (late nineteenth century)
Onoto Watanna (1903)
Onoto Watanna (early twentieth century)
Onoto Watanna (c.1907-c.1910)
Matthew Wellington (1874 or later)
Matthew Wellington (1874 or later)
Matthew Wellington (1874 or later)
Manuscripts top
E. Pauline Johnson, “And He Said ‘Fight On’” (early twentieth century)
Page from David Livingstone's Field Diary III with Addition by Bon Ale/Bin Aleī/Bon Ārie (19-20 May 1866)
Page from David Livingstone’s Notebook with Swahili Vocabulary List and Arabic Numbers (c.March 1866 to March 1870)
Page Inscribed by Solomon T. Plaatje to Kelly Miller (16 November 1921)
Jacob Wainwright, Addition to David Livingstone's Field Diary XVII (28 April 1873)
W. Salter Price and Jacob Wainwright, Signatures (1875[?], 1874).
Page Inscribed by Onoto Watanna to Lea W. Lindolph (17 June 1899)
Creative Works top
Anonymous Yoruba Artist, Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun) (late nineteenth century)
Djilatendo (Tshyela Ntendu), “L'Église” (c.1930)
Djilatendo (Tshyela Ntendu), “Les Animaux” (c.1930)
Jonathan Adagogo Green, Market Scene (c.1900)
Jonathan Adagogo Green, Railway Bridge, Imo River, near Port Harcourt (c.1900)
Abdullah Susi and James Chuma's Model of David Livingstone's Hut (late nineteenth or twentieth century)
Cite page (MLA): Wisnicki, Adrian S. “Curated Historical Objects.” One More Voice (an imprint of Livingstone Online ), site launch edition, 2020, https://onemorevoice.org/objects.html .
Terms of use: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Header image caption : Anonymous, “Semane Khama, Tshekedi Khama, and Councillors at Tiger Kloof” (Photograph, 1933), CWM/LMS/Home/Missionary Portraits/Box 12/File 34/1, University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Image from the Council for World Mission Archive, SOAS Library, University of London. Used by permission for private study, educational or research purposes only.
Header image commentary : Semane Khama is seated in the foreground of this image; Tshekedi Khama stands second from the left in the back row. Although One More Voice nominally focuses on the “long” Victorian era, i.e., 1837 to 1914, the project is by no means bound by these dates or even by this way of defining the historical period in question – an interpretive approach that echoes recent critical work focused on “undisciplining ” the field of Victorian Studies. As a result, the project's temporal remit can accommodate a 1934 letter from Semane Khama to a representative of the London Missionary Society, more so as the letter illuminates geopolitical relationships first established between inhabitants of Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and Britain in the nineteenth century.