Microform Collections in Stauffer Library
DR. KEPPEL-JONES'S PAMPHLETS AND JOURNAL COLLECTION CONCERNING RACE RELATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Description
In 1967, Dr. Keppel-Jones, Professor of History at Queen's, loaned his collection of pamphlets and bound documents [published by the South African Institute of Race Relations] to be filmed for the Queen's University Archives, resulting in the present collection of four reels. The index provides a reel-by-reel listing of publications listed by author, title, date, and other bibliographical information, but in no set order. Some topics addressed in the collection include Education, Economics, Colonial Policy, Native Laws Amendment Bill, Health, Political Rights, Apartheid, Employment. The years covered are approximately 1925-1962.
Microfilm Location and Call Number Stauffer Library Compact Shelving at Microfilm 014-129
Guide/Index Location and Call Number Stauffer Library Books at Z3608 .R3 S6 1967t & Stauffer Documents (MADGIC) Reference at SO6 IRR 67S53
Collection Status Complete (4 of 4 reels, plus Index)
Notes
- Reproduction quality on these films is fair for the first three reels, and poor on the fourth reel (which has been filmed as a negative, even though it is the continuation of a work filmed as a positive on the third reel). Most frames feature the fingers of whoever was positioning smaller works for filming, and there is considerable chemical streaking on the surface of the fourth reel. In addition, several frames are blurry.
- The films were wound in reverse sequence on the reels and (as of July 2006) have been rewound in proper order; however, this renders them upside-down for viewing. Readers are advised to use the Library's microfilm reader/printer machines to view these reels, as these are the best machines for rotating images 180 degrees.
- Professor Arthur Mervyn Keppel-Jones (1909-1996; Rhodes Scholar, 1929) was born in Cape Province, South Africa. He immigrated to Canada with his family in 1959 because of the racial-political situation in his homeland. For many years, Dr. Keppel-Jones was a distinguished Professor of History here at Queen's University. He authored several books and articles on the history of South Africa underpinning contemporary tensions. Titles available in the Queen's University Library collection are Phillips 1820; settler; his letters (1960, edited in consultation with Phillips' great-granddaughter, E.K. Heathcote), South Africa, a short history (1961), Rhodes and Rhodesia: the white conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902 (1983, published by the McGill-Queen's University Press), and A patriot in search of a country (Posthumous publication, 2003).
[Biographical references are from Queen's Alumni Review: Features (Fall 2002 issue), and Canada's Digital Collections (Government of Canada; viewed July 18, 2006).] - Dr. Keppel-Jones' article "Where did we take the wrong turning?" (n.d.), published in the Race relations journal, Vol. 26, No. 7 is listed in QCAT and available on microfilm in Stauffer Library Compact Shelving at call number HT no. 002.
- Titles listed in QCAT do not represent all of Dr. Keppel-Jones' publications. For further book titles, conduct an author search in the Library of Congress Catalogue.