Spanish/Portuguese Africa
2,000-Hectare Farm Development Project in Fernando Poo, Spanish Guinea. 1953. Barinco site, Fernando Poo. Approved by agricultural engineer Mr. Pedro Gragera Torres. Grant of Don Luis Diez Latorre. Very scarce documents referring to farms of European settlers in Spanish Guinea. Original signatures of approval.
Price: $700.00
Two postcards of the American Mission in Loanda and Catete. Present is the African American missionary/teacher Susan Collins. Rare. B
Price: $100.00
Note: Susan Angeline Collins (1851-1940) was born in North Carolina and attended Upper Iowa University for Normal Training. She was the university’s first African American student. In 1875, while working as a laundress in the Dakota Territory, she noticed among clothes wrapped in newspapers an ad for mission training in Chicago. In 1887, responding to Bishop Taylor’s call, she went as a missionary first to the Congo and later Angola where, in Quéssua, she established a school for girls. Altogether she served more than 30 years.