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Seligman, Thomas K.
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1970-2004
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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...
Christraud Geary East Africa photographs
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1994
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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 1994.
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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.
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White Fathers
White Fathers Mission
- Dates:
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1903-1924
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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,
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Barbara Jarocki
- Dates:
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1983
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65 photographs (color, 4 x 6 inches)
1 postcard (color)
2 photographs (color, 5 x 7 inches)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2016-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of one postcard and 67 photographs documenting the installation for and art objects in the exhibition "African Art from Nigeria and the Ivory Coast" (April 6-25, 1983), held at the Sarah Lawrence College Art Galley, and curated by Barbara Jarocki. The postcard is an invitation to the opening reception.
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Houlberg, Marilyn
- Dates:
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1970s - circa 2012
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267 color negatives (35mm)
8 Cassettes
19 videocassettes (video 8)
4,011 color slides (35mm)
3,012 Photographic Prints (color, 12 x 16 inches or smaller)
27 sound disk cd-r
12 videodiscs (dvd)
1 Reel (Super8)
30 notebooks (field notes)
0.5 Linear Feet (mixed materials; lecture/research files and correspondence)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-016
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The Marilyn Houlberg Haiti Collection includes negatives, audio cassettes, video reels, prints, CDs, DVDs, field books, and manuscript materials, including lecture/research files and correspondence, which were created from the 1970s to circa 2012 by Houlberg and focus on the arts and culture of Haiti, especially those of the Afro-Caribbean religion of Voudou.
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Robbins, Warren M.
Elisofon, Eliot
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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.
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Doggett, Drew
- Dates:
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February 2011
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1 Photographic Print (b&w; matted, 12 x 18 in. (print); 21 x 24 in. (matted))
1 Photographic Print (b&w; matted, 10 x 12 in. (print); 16 x 18 in. (matted))
18 Photographic Prints (b&w; matted, 12 x 18 in. (print); 18 x 24 in. (matted))
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-009
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of twenty matted black and white photographs taken in February 2011 that were used in Doggett's series, Omo: Expressions of a People (2012). These artistic photographs were taken in Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and depict Suri, Hamar, Dhassanac and Karo peoples.
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Freyer, Bryna
- Dates:
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1953 March 1
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1 Photographic Print (b&w, 23.5 x 17.8 cm)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2014-006
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographic print of Eliot Elisofon accepting an award on March 1, 1953 from Modern Photography for "Outstanding Color Photography" in the film Moulin Rouge.
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Eloise Thompson
- Dates:
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1965
- Size:
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20 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2012-006
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of twenty slides taken at the Kibo Art Gallery, which was run by Tanzanian artist Elimo Njau. Ten of the slides were published/distributed by the Kibo Art Gallery and depict art objects. The other ten slides were photographed by Peace Corps volunteer Eloise Thompson and portray people at a workshop at the Kibo Art Gallery in Marangu in 1965, including artist Elimo Njau.