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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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circa 1969-1990
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1 Watercolor (framed)
3 Prints (black and white, 1 framed, 2 matted)
1 Portfolio
28 Posters
7 Documents ((brochures))
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-013
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The Robbins Center Collection includes posters advertizing the Museum of African Art (now the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution) and its exhibits, exhibit brochures, a watercolor painting and photographs by Eliot Elisofon, and museum signage.
Jean Borgatti Collection
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Borgatti, Jean
- Dates:
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1971-2003
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3617 Slides (photographs) (color, 35 mm)
166 Contact sheets ((2 binders))
3555 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35 mm)
4 Notebooks ((1 box))
1 Cassette tape ((2 boxes))
25 Film reels (Super 8)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2016-007
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Jean Borgatti's collection dates from 1971 to 2003 and was created in Nigeria and Ghana. Much of the collection documents masquerades, shrines, festivals, market scenes, and ceremonies, and includes images of Urhobo, Uzairue, Ishan (Esan), Etsako, and Otuo peoples.
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1994
- Size:
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527 Slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1994-008
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Dr. Christraud M. Geary during a research trip to Kenya and Tanzania in August 1994.
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- Dates:
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1954-1955
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31 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 19 x 31.5 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2019-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
A bound notebook of prints picturing a model of the royal palace at Babanki Tungo, West Cameroon. The accompanying caption on the inside of the first image reads, "The model represented in this photographic album is the royal palace at Babanki Tungo, West Cameroon. It was carved by Robert Toh, the royal craver, during 1954-55. The brass figurines were sculpted by Umaru Njasi, a brass-caster from Bamum. The photographs are by Evan G. Schneider and were taken in Southeastern Ohio. Mr. Schneider is also responsible for the printing. Gilbert D. Schneider Athens, Ohio - - 1968." The palace and figurines were also donated in 1979 to the Museum of African Art, now the National Museum of African Art (accession no. 79-1-1).
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Jenness, Aylette
- Dates:
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1967-1969
- Size:
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2293 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35 mm)
46 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120. mm)
72 Contact sheets (black and white)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-019
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection includes photographs taken by Aylette Jenness in northern Nigeria between 1967 and 1969. They document daily life in a remote part of Yauri Emerite, focusing on the townspeople of Yelwa and those in its environs.
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- Dates:
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2007-2013
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11 Electronic discs (CD) (1 box)
4 Boxes (correspondence and research)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2017-009
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Research collection of materials related to Freetown artist Miranda Olayinka Burney Nicol (1927-1996) created between 2007 and 2013. The collection includes 4 boxes of correspondence and research and 1 box containing 11 electronic discs (CD-ROMS) primarily of images of Oyalinka's artwork. This research was compiled during the preparation of Otten...
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Rohrmann, G. F. (George F.)
- Dates:
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1970-1975
- Size:
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129 Color slides (35mm)
626 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2018-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection depicts the everyday life and architecture of Basotho, Hausa, Makonde, Matabele, Pedi, Swazi, and Xhosa peoples in Nigeria, Southern Africa, and Tanzania.
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Rosenthal, Lynn
- Dates:
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1975-1976
- Size:
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2 Items (photographic prints , black and white)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2016-008
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of two black and white photographs of Dr. Hertzog and her students in the Department of Computer Science, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, dated 1975 and 1976. Both photographs were produced by local Nigerian photographers, Sunkanmi (1975) and Bisi Photo Studio (1976).
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- Creators:
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Fiofori, Tam
- Dates:
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1979
- Size:
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1 Photographic print (black and white, 25.5 x 38 inches)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2017-008
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection is comprised of a 1979 photograph by Tam Fiofori of Oba Erediauwa's Coronation in Nigeria.
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1976
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448 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 120 mm.)
44 Prints (visual works) (contact prints (1 volume), black & white, 8x10 in.)
227 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.XXXX-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs of art objects and of Chaim Gross's art objects taken by Lisa Little and Delmar Lipp at the Museum of African Art, now the National Museum of African Art, for the exhibit entitled, "The Sculptor's Eye," 1976. Lisa Little images are all 120 mm while Delmar Lipp photographed solely 35 mm. The exhibit was held at Worcester Art Museum, Cincinnati Museum of Art and the University of Georgia Museum, 1976-1977.
