Das Buch von unsern Kolonien
A German colonial-era book by Ottomar Beta, published in Leipzig by Hirt in 1908, aimed at a general German readership interested in the empire's overseas colonies. Its pictures are black-and-white and some colour engravings of African settlements, tents, and groups of people, mostly shown rotated on the page, with captions in German; a designer might take their dense crowded compositions and ethnographic layout as period reference for tropical scenes.
