2-547-030 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The calabash baby, Dodoma to Mongalla, East Africa, 1925 (1927). A print from Cape to Cairo, by Stella Court Treatt, George G Harrap & Company Ltd, 1927. The book was an account of the first successful journey by motor vehicle from Cape Town to Cairo, accomplished by Stella Court Treatt and her husband, Major Chaplin Court Treatt, in 1924-1926. Stella (1895-1976) is photographed examining a calabash gourd halved to protect a baby from the sun.