Content note: Colonial-era human-display show poster billing East African performers as 'enemies' of European explorers This object is shown as it was published. Why
Wakamba's: die größten Feinde Stanley's und Emin Pascha's (show poster, c. 1890)
Landscape show poster for the Redouten-Saal: two circular portraits, 'Mr. Stanley' and 'Emin Pascha', flank the headline billing 'Wakamba's, the greatest enemies of Stanley and Emin Pasha', above a staged scene of spear- and shield-bearing men in leopard-print skirts before thatched huts. The tell: the fame of two well-known explorers is borrowed to sell the performers, who are billed by their relation to them (transfer).
- Date
- 1890
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Adolph Friedländer lithograph shop, Hamburg, for a Redouten-Saal variety show
- Country
- German Empire
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- German Empire
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (print by Adolph Friedländer, Hamburg; Dorotheum record), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain: Commons PD-art; printer d. 1904; c. 1890 (pre-1931)
Adolph Friedländer, Hamburg, c. 1890; Dorotheum record, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Redouten-Saal. Wakamba's, die grössten Feinde Stanley's und Emin Pascha's. [portrait labels:] MR. STANLEY / EMIN PASCHA [imprint at lower left:] Lith. v. Adolph Friedländer HAMBURG Tholstr 83/85 [lower right:] № 112.
Redouten-Saal. Wakambas, the greatest enemies of Stanley and Emin Pasha. [portrait labels: Mr. Stanley / Emin Pasha] [Lithographed by Adolph Friedländer, Hamburg, Tholstrasse 83/85] No. 112.
Imprint read at 960 px; street number partly uncertain.
