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Chinua Achebe, c. 1960, with two editions of his first novel, Things Fall Apart.

Hieroglyphs on the Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt.

A map of Africa in 1914, with a map of colonies belonging to numerous European empires and the colonial languages of each.

Someone making a sheet of papyrus.

Pages for the Letter "F" in Fascist Alphabet Book

Inside Lovedale Press, the printing department that the Lovedale Missionary Institute opened in 1861.

Illustration of a printing press and a composing stick from the first edition (1768–71) of the Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, plate CXLVII, figure 1.

The Gutenberg Press with its moveable type.