Burton Ashley photographs
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- Creators:
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Ashley, Burton E., 1908-
- Dates:
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1930-1952
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665 negatives (photographic) (black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
520 negatives (photographic) (duplicate negatives; black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
10 postcards (black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
157 slides (photographs) (color)
338 photographic prints (+ contact prints , black & white, 4 x 5 in. or smaller)
1 photographic print ((panograph), black & white, 6.3 x 20 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1979-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The photographs are cityscapes and landscapes taken by Burton E. Ashley in Egypt, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia during the early 1930s and early 1950s. The images include views of Cape Town, South Africa; Cairo, Egypt; Port Said, Egypt, and Mozambique. Architecture depicted includes buildings in Tanzania, a mission in Zambia and the Mohammed Ali Mosque in Cairo. Additionally, there are images of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and rivers and waterfalls including the Luangwa, Nile, Zambezi and Victoria Falls. The collection also includes photos of animals, geological features and vegetation.
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- Creators:
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1985-[ongoing]
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-022
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographic images, usually received singly and without relation to a collection, collected by the staff of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, since its inception in 1985.
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Browning, Augustus
- Dates:
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1982-1985
- Size:
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226 postcards (black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller.)
1 box
120 postcards (color, 8 x 10 in. or smaller.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1992-019
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Postcards of Lower and Upper Egypt published in the first decade of the 20th century. The majority of the postcards are unused, but some of them had been posted between 1900 and 1906.
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Chilver, Elizabeth
Kaberry, Phyllis M.
- Dates:
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1958-1963
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40 photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 17 x 11 mm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1992-020
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Elizabeth Chilver and Phyllis M. Kaberry of people, costumes and architecture in Cameroon from 1958 through 1963. Duplicate prints from a photographic collection held by the Pitt Rivers Archives in Oxford, England.
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Wenger, Suzanne
Yemisi, Lola
Saka, Waheed O.
Smith, Sara Wendell
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1991
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117 slides (photographs) (dupe slides, 1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Sara Wendell Smith in 1991 of textiles by Nigerian artists. The works include Adire fabric, which is made in a resist dyeing technique, quilts and appliqués. The artists include Nike Davies, Adeyemo Kasali Onireke, Ayanniyi Akeem, Florence, Lola Yemisi, Waheed O. Saka, Rotimi Togbe, Gbenga Emmanual Togbe, Bayo Gbelekale, Lamidi Fakeye and Suzanne Wenger. Also included among the slides are scenes from Oshogbo, Nigeria.
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Heldman, Donald
- Dates:
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Fall 1967-Spring 1968
- Size:
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23 photographs (b&w.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2011-009
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Dr. Donald P. Heldman of Gambela (Ethiopia) and surrounding neighborhoods. Images primarily depict a port on the Baro River, Etang Village, and Annuak people fishing, canoeing, smoking, bathing, and carrying food and wood.
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Robins, D.C. Major
- Dates:
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between 1920-1935
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43 gelatin silver prints (1 album, black & white, 12 x 16.5 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1999-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Album is comprised of photographs taken in and around Patiko, a settlement of the Acholi peoples (also known as Gan) in Uganda, and among the Teso peoples of Uganda. The images depict architectural features, general appearance of both Acholi and Teso, and in some instances activities and rituals. Photographer unknown.
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Betty Stanley, Mrs
Roy, Christopher D.
Stanley, C. Maxwell, 1904-1984 (collector and philanthropist)
- Dates:
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1985
- Size:
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120 slides (photographs) (1 volume , color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1987-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs of art objects collected by Maxwell C., 1904-1984, and Betty Stanley. The Stanley's had begun to collect African art objects during a business trip to West Africa in the 1960s, and they gradually acquired nearly 600 pieces. The objects are found today in the University of Iowa Museum. Events documented include official government ceremonies with staged indigenous dances; rituals in villages such as young members of the female sande society returning from the initiation camp; and visits by foreign heads of state such as Queen Elizabeth II and Josip Broz Tito of Yoguslavia. Art works include figures, masks, musical instruments, sculptures and staffs.
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- Creators:
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Sanders Art Media
- Dates:
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circa 1987
- Size:
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50 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1987-021
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Slide kit of West Africa Art published by Sanders Art Media in Los Angeles, California, in 1987. The images are mostly of masks but also include some sculptors.
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Holcombe, Bryce P.
- Dates:
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circa 1970
- Size:
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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.