Showing posts with label East Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Africa. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

E.O. Teale collection - transport in East Africa

Wilson Airways aeroplane, E.O. Teale photograph collection

Travel in East Africa in the 1920s. By air, boat and motor car!
(a De Haviland Dragon  ID courtesy of Richard Holowka @RichHolowka)
Travel by boat, East Africa, 1920s

Travel by boat, East Africa
Travel by car East Africa 1920s. E.O. Teale Collection

Travel by car East Africa 1920s. E.O. Teale Collection

Travel by car East Africa 1920s. E.O. Teale Collection

Travel by car East Africa 1920s. 

The full E. O. Teale photograph collection can be found on Geoscenic

Posted by Bob McIntosh

Thursday, 20 June 2013

E.O. Teale, geologist 1874-1971

BGS image ID: P776406
Australian Edmund Oswald Teale (formerly Theile) (1874-1971) worked in East Africa from 1908 to 1936 mostly on geological surveys.  Teale's archive held at the British Geological Survey includes a typescript autobiography, extensive diaries, testimonials and photographs. 

Bob McIntosh

Saturday, 16 March 2013

Geological survey team at work in the field camp. E.O. Teale photograph collection.

Geological survey team at work in the field camp. E.O. Teale photograph collection.
BGS image ID: P776542
Geological survey team at work in the field camp. E.O. Teale photograph collection. Preparing samples for shipping to the Imperial Institute, London. Portuguese East Africa. 1914.

Edmund Oswald Teale (formerly Thiele) Kt. Bach., D.Sc., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., M.Inst.M.M. 1874-1971. 

Links:
Edmund Teale's photograph collection
Collection on Geoscenic

Bob McIntosh