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Robbins, Warren M.
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.
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Schildkrout, Enid
Van Couvering, John A.
- Dates:
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1964-2010
- Size:
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5320 slides (photographs) (35 mm)
120 slides (photographs) (120 mm)
1407 negatives (photographic) (35 mm)
91 negatives (photographic) (120 mm)
3 negatives (photographic) (5 x 7 inches)
10 negatives (photographic) (4 x 5 inches)
2 negatives (photographic) (8 x 10 inches)
136 Photographic prints (8 x 10 inches or smaller)
4 contact sheets
1 usb flash drive (64 GB)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2018-005
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection documents the Asante, Baka, Baule, Berber, Dogomba, Dogon, Fulani, Gurunsi, Gonja, Hausa, Lobi, Mamprusi, Mossi, Senufo, Serer, Tsonga, Tuareg, Wolof, and Yoruba peoples; architecture, animals, artwork, celebrations, ceremonies, landscapes, masquerades, markets, mosques, portraits, shrines, and street scenes in Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Morocco, Republic of Benin, Central African Republic, Namibia, and Senegal.
Ancestral Shrine, Royal Palace, Benin City, Nigeria
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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.
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Visser, Robert, 1860-1937
- Dates:
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circa 1900
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3 Stereographs (printed on postcards; black and white; collotype)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2008-010
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection includes three postcards that depict stereographic images created by Robert Visser of villages, peoples, and a "fetish" figure in Congo (Democratic Republic).
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Keystone View Company
Underwood & Underwood
- Dates:
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1882-1930
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240 Stereographs (black and white, 9 x 22 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1986-022
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The photographs document African businesses, cities, industry, landscapes, peoples and resources. The collection documents various locations within Kenya, Tanzania, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa. Peoples represented include Kikuyu, Maasai, Bangi, Chagga, Ndombe, Poto, Bangala, Zulu, and Kongo peoples. There are many images of agriculture, hunting, making pottery, mining diamonds and gold, church services at a Catholic mission, a gathering of chiefs at a court, a lion-killing ceremony, and war dances. Businesses and industries shown include coffee plantations; the DeBeers Diamond Mine; a diamond mine compound and crushing mill; fishing boats; a hemp plantation; ivory trade; a market; and the stock market.
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- Dates:
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1993-1996
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9 video recordings (sd., color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1994-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Video recorded interviews conducted by Dr. Simon Ottenberg with Nigeria artists in Nigeria and in the United States of America, 1994-1996.
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Shamir, Marli
- Dates:
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1971
- Size:
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229 gelatin silver prints (black and white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
89 Photographic prints ((1 v.), black and white, 23 x 18 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1995-025
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Marli Shamir in Mali, in 1971. The majority of the images show architecture in Djenne, Mali. Other images depict architecture of the Dogon in Timbuktu, Gao and San. Photographs from this collection were featured by Labelle Prussin's thesis entitled, "The Architecture of Djenne; African Synthesis and Transformation," (Yale University, 1974) and in her book entitled, "Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa," (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). The images have also been displayed in an exhibition entitled, "Marli Shamir Photographs from the Sahel," held in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, in 1976.
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Schneider, Gilbert
- Dates:
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mid-1970s
- Size:
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24 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 12 x 15 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2019-002
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs of art objects and of object installations taken during the mid-1970s by Gilbert Schneider.
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Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
- Dates:
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1928-1934
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736 negatives (photographic) (+contact prints (5 v.), black & white, 3 x 4 in.)
736 Photographic prints ((6 v.), black & white, 3 x 4 in.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1986-029
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Melville J. Herskovits during his trips with his wife, Frances Shapiro Herskovits, to Surinam (1928-29); Dahomey, now Republic of Benin (1931); Haiti (1934); and Brazil (1941-42). From 1928 to 1943 Melville Herskovits and his wife, Frances Herskovits (nee Shapiro) traveled together throughout West Africa and the Americas to collect evidence of the legacy of African culture. The contributions of Frances Herskovits to her husband's research were fully recognized in an exhibition held by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, from April 2-August 9, 1998. Entitled, "Living Tradition in Africa & the America: The Legacy of Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits," the brochure noted, "On each trip, Frances was a full partner in the research...Until Melville's death in 1963, they worked together on the analysis of their data and the writing of books and articles; and after he died, she edited a collection of his papers."
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- Creators:
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Dean, John
- Dates:
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1961-1962
- Size:
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296 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1976-003
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by John Dean while traveling in the Sudan in 1961 and in Liberia and Sierre Leone in 1962.