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Robert Thompson with Emperor Haile Selassie on a stage.
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1948 (Creation)
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1 print photograph : b&w ; 11.5x8 cm
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From 1944 to 1951, Robert Thompson worked alongside Emperor Haile Selassie in a variety of roles including: Colonel of the Ethiopian Air Force, head of the Haile Selassie I Secondary School at Kutabi in Addis Ababa, Superintendent of Schools for Kaffa Province, Associate Director General of Education, Associate Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Education, Advisor in Foreign Affairs within the Government of Ethiopia, and appointed Deputy Commissioner of Boy Scouts in Ethiopia.
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Item is a print photograph of Robert Thompson and Emperor Haile Selassie walking across a stage with individuals walking behind them. Emperor Haile Selassie is in military dress with a cape and helmet, and Thompson wears a suit and tie.
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Robert N. Thompson
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Preferred citation Trinity Western Archives and Special Collections, Robert N. Thompson fonds, Photograph Collection sous-fond, RNT-01-0058.
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Written on the back of the photograph in black ink reads "1948, Memoirs".
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Scanned using a Epson Expression 1680 at 600 dpi in TIFF format using LZW compression and at 72 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 7
Accompanying material
For records related to Robert Thompson military career see: RNT-SF-3 Military Years/Ethiopia.
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The photograph is creased and there is grey craft paper residue on the back.
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- Thompson, Robert (Subject)
- Selassie, Haile I (Subject)
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Final
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Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
October, 2023, CT