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Photo album of C. Huffmann, delegated administrator of Repco, depicting an inspection trip to Repco stations in Belgian Congo, Cotonco, Kampala (Uganda) and Katanga. September 1930 - February 1931.
NAB, Archives INEAC, no. 9095.

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125 years after the General Act of the Berlin Conference

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