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- Creators:
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Holcombe, Bryce P.
- Dates:
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circa 1970
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436 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1986-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs of art objects taken by Bryce P. Holcombe during the 1970s.
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- Creators:
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Galembo, Phyllis
- Dates:
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1900s
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140 Photographic Prints (contact prints (1 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Phyllis Galembo in Nigeria.
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- Creators:
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Rohrmann, G. F. (George F.)
- Dates:
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1970-1975
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125 slides (photographs) (color, 35 mm)
622 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35 mm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2018-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection depicts Basotho, Matabele, Pedi, Swazi, Xhosa, and Makonde peoples and village life in Lesotho, South Africa, Tanzania, and Nigeria. There are also images of Hausa peoples tie dying at indigo dye pits in Kano, Nigeria.
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- Dates:
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1960-1961
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2 magazines (periodicals) (1 box
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- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2014-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection is comprised of two issues of Life Magazine that include photographs by Eliot Elisofon. The articles that feature his work are "The Hopeful Launching of a Proud and Free Nigeria" (September 26, 1960) and "Africa's Savage Beauty" (October 13, 1961).
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- Creators:
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Hubbard, Chris
- Dates:
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1969-1970
- Size:
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47 slides (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2012-007
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Chris Hubbard in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1969-1970, which primarily depict the funeral of Kuba Nyim Mbopey Mabiintsh ma-Kyeen.
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
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2016
- Size:
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1 videodiscs (blu-ray disc)
1 videodiscs (dvd)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2017-007
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection consists of two copies of the DVD "Arts of the Monsoon," (2016) one standard and one Blu-ray. Produced in 2016 by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the film portrays how the dhows, in sailing across the monsoon winds of he Indian Ocwean between Oman and East Africa, brought cross-cultural influences along the coastal areas of Sur, Salalah, and Zanzibar.
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- Creators:
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Henshaw, David
- Dates:
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1920s
- Size:
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32 photographs (b&w.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of 32 black and white photographs taken in northern Nigeria in the 1920s. They primarily focus on the Henshaw missionary family, their work, and their community in proximity to the city of Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.
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- Creators:
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Seligman, Thomas K.
- Dates:
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1970-2004
- Size:
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1742 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2016-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Seligman between 1970 and 2004 primarily of West Africa, including Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Dogon, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Swaziland, Kenya, and Morocco. Additionally, there are some images of masquerades in Cote d'Ivoire and Togo, and scenes in Ghana and Great Zimbabwe. Images depict cultural landscapes, masqu...
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- Dates:
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1891 May
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1 albumen print (cabinet card, black and white, 12.7 x 17.8 cm. (5 x 7 inches) (without mount))
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-014
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
One cabinet card with an albumen photographic print by Cyril Punch of a Benin altar with two bronze heads supporting ivory tusks and framing a group of brass statues and bells, an inscription on the frame reading, "Juju altar, Benin City, May 1891.
Pères Blancs (White Fathers) Photographic Albums
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White Fathers
White Fathers Mission
- Dates:
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1903-1924
- Size:
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217 Photographic Prints (black and white)
217 copy prints (black and white)
217 copy negatives (black and white, 4 x 5 in.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1987-010
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The Pères Blancs (White Fathers) Society Photographic Album documents the group's missions and the Africans living near them in the East African kingdoms of Rwanda and Burundi (now the state of Rwanda-Burundi). Subjects include individual and group portraits of Africans, including members of the Tutsi royal family and the Tutsi elite, Christian families of Hutu origin, missionaries and Western visitors, and Twa people on an elephant hunt. There are also photos of landscapes, African villages and mission buildings, activities, including dancing, farming,