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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Stephen Grant postcards, EEPA 2001-001
Summary
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2001-001
- Dates:
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1887-1986
- Languages:
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English,German,Arabic,French.
- Physical Description:
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2 Photographic printscolor7,008 Postcardscolor10 x 15 cm. or smaller
- Repository:
Picture postcards collected by Stephen Grant, Education Official, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while serving in Africa.
Arrangement note
Arrangement note
Postcards are organized in 22 volumes and one box by country and topic, arranged numerically according to collector's original sequence; prints are organized in one box.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Son of a book publisher, Stephen Grant was born in Boston in 1941. After attending Noble and Greenough School and graduating from Amherst College, he earned a Doctorate in Education from the University of Massachusetts. His first experiences abroad were as an exchange student in Germany with the American Field Service, earning a Middlebury College Master's Degree in French at the Sorbonne in Paris, and teaching as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ivory Coast, Africa. Grant served for twenty years as Education Officer for the United States Agency for International Development, USAID. His job led him and his family to live in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Egypt, Indonesia, and El Salvador. He is married to Annick Pasquet, a teacher with the French government. They have two children, and one grandchild. Grant shifted from a diplomatic career to writing, and served as Senior Fellow at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training in Arlington from 2003 to 2018. In this position, he lectured at the Foreign Service Institute and helped retired diplomats prepare manuscripts for publication. Stephen Grant is a Deltiologist, a specialist in studying and collecting postcards. Some of Grant's publications include Images de Guinée (1991); Former Points of View: Postcards and Literary Passages from Pre-Independence Indonesia (1995); Early Salvadoran Postcards (1999); New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal (2006); and Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger (2014).
Administration
Author
Paul Wood, Haley Steinhilber
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
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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.
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Africa | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Côte d'Ivoire | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Guinea | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Egypt | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographic prints | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Postcards | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Cairo (Egypt) | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Art museums | Topical | 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
Business Number: Phone: 202-633-4690
Fax Number: Fax: 202-357-4879
elisofonarchives@si.edu