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WILLIAM D. YOUNG
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WILLIAM D. YOUNG

The East African Railway

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WILLIAM D. YOUNG
The East African Railway
Album of 48 printing-out paper prints. c.1900s. Each approx. 14.5 x 19.5 or reverse. Each captioned in ink on overmat. Mombasa credit label, inscribed Presented to Geo: S. Mackenzie Esquire,/with Compliments from,/A.M. Jeevanjee and boy:, Mombasa. in ink on front free endpaper. With one loose 2-part p.o.p. print panorama, credit stamp on verso. Dark blue half leather, gilt, g.e.
Album size: 27 x 35cm. (2)
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Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee, a Parsi trader, challenged Colonialism and promoted Equal Rights in Kenya. At the completion of the East African Railway in 1902, he established in Mombasa the newspaper the African Standard (now called the East African Standard), one of Africa's oldest, continuously published newspapers.