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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Lower Congo photographs, EEPA 1997-013, 1886-1888
Summary
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1997-013
- Dates:
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1886-1888
- Languages:
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French.
- Physical Description:
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53 Photographic prints(1 album)black & white12 x 17 cm.53 Negatives (photographic)dupe negsblack & white4 x 5 in.53 Photographic printsdupe prints (1 v.)black & white12 x 17 cm.
- Repository:
- Container:
- 5311
Photographs assembled by Major Leon Roget, 1858-1909, in 1886 and 1888 in Boma, Congo Free State. Major Roget had organized the first companies of Force publique and had become its first commander (1886-1888). Most of the images are described in captions written on separate sheets by Rene J. Cornet, author of "La Bataille du Rail." Some images show the building of the railroad of the lower Congo (Matadi-Kinshasa), Katanga, and relate to the Belgian occupation and geological exploration of the Southeastern province and Maniema of the Belgian Congo by his father, Jules Cornet, 1865-1929. The majority of the images show architecture and colonial life in Boma and Matadi. They include a balloon ascent in 1889, a group of African men and women, African troops and African women with scarification. The most remarkable photographs include a picture of a Kongo burial ground, a studio photograph of a "horizontale" in Sierre Leone and a portrait of Makoleka, a "feticheur," who was executed for murder.
Arrangement note
Arrangement note
Images indexed by negative number.
Administration
Author
Paul Wood
Custodial History note
Purchased, 1997. Conserved through a preservation grant funded by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee, 2006.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Conditions Governing Access note
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Keywords
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Africa | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Congo (Democratic Republic) | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographic prints | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Boma (Congo) | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Roget, Léon, Major, 1865-1929 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
National Museum of African Art
P.O. Box 37012
MRC 708
Washington, DC 20013-7012
elisofonarchives@si.edu