Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0050Description
Sepia tone stereograph. Image is of a large river with white water. Below the image "10559 - The beginning of the historic Nile - flowing from Victoria Nyanza, East Africa. Copyright Underwood and Underwood (illegible)" is printed. To the left of the image "European Publishers Underwood & Underwood (London) Ltd" is printed. To the right of the image "Underwood & Underwood New York &Ottawa, Kas. Works, Arlington, N.J." is printed. "S 81" is printed on the top right corner. On the reverse "10559. Geography, - Physiography, - Here we view the elusive goal of many an explorer, the Ripon Falls where the Great Lake of Africa hurls its waters into the Nile. This is the heart of Africa, thrity miles south of the equator. Victoria Nyanza is fed by tributaries of the water-shed norhteast of the Congo basin; the head waters of the Congo are not more than a hundred miles distant. This rival of Lake Superior has an area os 30,000 suare miles. It is nearly 4,000 feet above the Indian Ocean. The Nile, 1,200 feet wide at Ripon Falls, flows northwest into Albert Nyanza, enters the plains of Egyptian Soudan, and reaches the Mediterranean thorugh a delta of seven mouths. It covers a distance of 4,300 miles. The most famous of its (illegible) occur below Khartoum.
History-Biography- The ancient geographers believed that the Nile rose far south in great lakes, but their information was discredited and lost. This geographic problem was solved by Speke when in 1858 he discovered the "Nyanza" which he called Victoria, and in 1862 the fountain of the Nile, the Ripon Falls. It is a pathetic fact that David Livingstone went to this death believing that he had revealed the ultimate head-waters of the Nile. In 1868 he traced the course of the Chanibesi river to Lake Bangweolo. He felt convinced that the great river flowing from that lake was the Nile; but in 1876 Henry Stanley proved that the Congo and not the Nile issued from the water-shed which Livingstone discovered.
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Beginning of the Nile, Victoria Nyanza
Source du Nil, Nyanza-Victoria.
Anfang de Niles. Victoria Nyanza.
Nacimiente del Nilo, Victoria Nyanza
Sjon Viktoria Nyanza Nilens kalla.
(Cryillic letters)Collection
Photograph Collection