Photographs of Cape Town taken by George R. Carline for The British Association for...

One 397 page album of annotated photographs taken by George Reginald Carline during his visit to South Africa with The British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1929. The photographs depict buildings, scenery, native populations and travelers in various locations in Africa including: Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Mashonland, Victoria Falls, London Missionary Station in Kawimbe, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Kavirondo, Kenya, Mombasa, the Red Sea, Suez and Messina. The album also contains photographs of Carline. Found within the album are two books of postcards titled: 'Types of South African Natives' (12 pack of black and white postcards) and 'Twelve Coloured Photographic Postcards of South African Natives' (12 colour postcards) (dates unknown but likely the same era as the album).

According to the annotation on the first page of the album, the order of the album was roughly arranged by Carline. The first half of the album was assembled by him and the remainder, including smaller prints, were placed by 'Dick'. The inscriptions beneath the photographs were copied from Carline's notes on the backs of the photographs and in his catalogue up to photograph 189.

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George Reginald Carline was a British anthropologist and fieldworker. He studied for the Diploma in Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. He worked on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary and as an assistant curator at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. From 1919 to 1926 he worked at the Pitt Rivers museum as an assistant to Henry Balfour, the curator. He was the first president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society in 1919. He excavated with Gertrude Caton-Thompson and William Flinders Petrie in the Fayum in Egypt from 1925-6. From 1926 until his death in 1932 he worked as Keeper at the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, Yorkshire. Carline joined the Folklore Society in 1912 and was elected member of the Council in 1917. He collected artifacts in South and Central Africa, Central Europe and the Balkans which he visited on various occasions. He attended the International Congress of Peasant Art at Prague in 1928 as one of three delegates from the Folklore Society. On his return he became a representative of the Society on the British National Committee for Folk Arts and Crafts. In 1929 he went to South Africa with the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He belonged to the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, and was President of the Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society.