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A close up shot of Jantje, an elderly indigenous man in South Africa. His mother was Griqua and his father was from the Nama people.

A photograph taken from the river, showing a low forest along bank and palm trees.

A photograph taken on the wharf at Beira. It shows the trolley system on the right and in the middle is Captao de mar e guerra A.C. Feneira Pinto Basto with his sister, Senorita, on the left of him and his wife, Senora, next.

OOD long glass (spy glass). One of three in use on December 7, 1941. This spy glass was used by the Officer of the Deck, who was responsible for the safety and navigation of the ship. It was salvaged by a USS Arizona diving party December 15-19.…

A photograph taken out over open country with shrubs, grassland, and a group of trees on the far right.

A photograph taken out over open country, showing a very distant view of grassland and vegetation.

A more open forest and larger trees, looking straight - acacia like in the back. Soil uniform to 12 or 10 feet, where sandy roots penetrate. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

A photograph of an open space with the odina, cantheum, protea abyssinica, ochna, and combretum. The hills in the background are north of the Kafue river.

A photograph showing an andropogon-like sod on a deep sandy loam soil with occasional thickets of acacia horrida, many bulb plants, asparagus, smilax, aloe, and lycium-like plants.