Lot Details
Lot 283
NUNES CORREA, MANUEL Across Africa from West to East, from Benguella to Brina [manuscript cover title].
Photograph album, circa 1913. Original half blue pebbled cloth. 9 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches; 70 original gelatin prints mounted to 28 pages of stiff card as well as both inner covers. Old ink stain and shelf sticker to upper cover, some photos faded.
Photograph album compiled by Portuguese Comendador Manuel Nunes Correa as a recuerdo (souvenir) to Mr. & Mrs. Garrett (?). The photographs record an African hunting from in 1912 and 1913, showing the various camps, companions, scenery, and their quarry, including lion, haartebeest, hippopotamus, eland. Nunes Correa handwrote captions in ink directly on the photographs.
Nunes Correa owned Val do Rio, a large chain of minimarts in Portugal, which was the first in the country to offer self-service as well as local delivery of groceries. Later in his life, in 1977, Nunes Correa created the company REFRIGE - Sociedade Produtora de Refrigerantes, which produced and marketed Coca-Cola in Portugal for the first time, as it had previously been banned first by the old regime (because coca, as a narcotic, was an illicit substance), and later by the revolutionaries (who called it the "dirty water of capitalism"). He and his wife donated their home and farm in the northern district of Leiria to become a museum, which today holds a wide array of materials, including art, coins, musical instruments, and yes, the first bottle of Coca-Cola to be bottled in Portugal.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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