A Sua Excelencia O Mayor de Oakland. Recordacao dq Cidade de Nova Lisboa [aka Huambro]. 7 Junho 1956 [ms title].

Nova Lisboa: (Angolan government, diplomatic corps), 1956. Album. Photographic album, 15x11.5 inches, furnishing black construction-paper blanks, bound in fussy wooden boards paneled in leather and plastic, a presentation copy with twenty mounted photographs (graphics measure 7x7 inches with wide black borders) on matte white stock, ergo not glossy photographic stock and probably not from the negative). The captions are handwritten in white-ink calligraphy, each photo guarded with spider-web glassine leaf, as is the title leaf which spells out the recipient (see below) whose glassine is badly torn but not a throwaway because autographed by five males, most likely Angolan government persons. While plates are fine, the album is poor, having lost its upper cover through failure of the cover joint. As is, an oddity.

Pedestrian western architecture showing few citizens or automobiles. Presented to Clifford E. Rishell, then serving as the Mayor of Oakland, California, upon his visit to Angola in 1956. Rishell served as mayor from 1949 to 1961 and was known as the "Ambassador of Goodwill for Oakland". His visit to Angola preceded the independence war in which many of these building would be destroyed.

Cat.No: 297033

Price: $150.00