Thomas Ofcansky collection
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Ofcansky, Thomas P., 1947-
- Dates:
-
1678-circa 2005
- Size:
-
1 Booklet (sheet music)
30 Engravings
6 Photographic prints
6 Posters
1 Drawing
2 Documents
12 Maps
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-012
- Repository:
-
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection dates from 1678 to circa 2005 and consists of 58 maps, engravings, posters, original documents and photographs related to East, Central and South Africa. There is a special focus on Ethiopia (Abyssinia), Tanzania and the Sudan, and the collection's subjects include East African geography, history, political affairs and African leaders, as well as European (German, Italian, British) and American colonization, exploration and warfare in Africa.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
circa 1631-1973
- Size:
-
78 Maps
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1991-001
- Repository:
-
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from topographical information, boundaries of colonial territories, and ethnic groups, among other topics. While several depict the continent of Africa in its entirety, many focus on specific countries and geographic regions. There are a particularly large number of maps depicting the West African Coast.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
1747-circa 1905
- Size:
-
154 Items (29 folders, engravings, 21 1/2 x 16 in. (54.6 x 40.6 cm.) or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2010-003
- Repository:
-
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The Historic Engravings collection is comprised of 154 pages of engravings, dating from 1747 to circa 1905. The engravings depict subject matter related to Africa and Africans.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
1925-1928
- Size:
-
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-294
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of field notes of Grace E. Pickford (1902-1986), a zoologist and professor at Albertus Magnus College, Yale University, and Hiram College. These field notes document her focus on worms while in South Africa as a traveling scholar of Newnham College, Cambridge. These records document specimens in the National Museum ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
- Dates:
-
1663-2004
- Size:
-
6,500 Items (estimated)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-CL.XXXX-0014
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Libraries
Manuscript and printed textual material, photographic prints and negatives, slides, audio tapes, film, original and reproduction artwork, maps, scrapbooks, and historical and natural artifacts related to the history of African exploration and natural history, dating primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes correspondence, drafts of publications, diaries, account books, ephemera, posters, newsclippings, biographies, memoirs, portraits, and the former personal property of selected explorers, big game hunters, missionaries, pioneers, and naturalists in Africa.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Egypt. Survey of Egypt
- Dates:
-
1950
- Size:
-
2 Sheets (31.5x42.25 inches)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7449
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
Includes a separate index (ca. 24 pages).
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
National Air and Space Museum. Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
- Dates:
-
circa 1974-1975, with related materials from circa 1966
- Size:
-
9.83 cu. ft. (2 blueprint storage boxes) (48 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 353
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists entirely of oversized materials, mostly lunar surface maps and a few maps of Earth's surface, including Egypt, taken from space. For other records concerning lunar nomenclature, the lunar surface, and space maps of Egypt, see the papers of Farouk El-Baz, Record Unit 7415.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Hance, William Adams, 1916-
- Dates:
-
1949-1970
- Size:
-
2513 Slides (photographs) (color , 35mm.)
17 Maps
117 Postcards
10 Items ((guidebooks))
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2008-008
- Repository:
-
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection, which dates from 1949-1970, contains approximately 2513 color 35mm slides depicting the people, environment and cultures of more than 30 African countries. Images include landscapes, agriculture and marketplace scenes. Countries represented include Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burundi, Rwanda, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Cote d'Ivoire and Zambia. Also included in this collection are 117 postcards from West and Central Africa and approximately 17 maps of and 10 guide books for East and West Africa. A small amount of miscellaneous ephemera rounds out the collection.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Messenger, Betty, 1929-
Messenger, John C. (John Cowan), 1920-
- Dates:
-
circa 1945 - circa 1955
- Size:
-
3 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2016-01
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
The collection consists of papers, photographs, and other materials created and collected by Betty and John Messenger documenting Ibibio, Anang, and Efik peoples in Nigeria. The collection includes fieldnotes; prints, negatives, and 35mm slides with an accompanying notebook identifying images; travel account books; printed Efik-English dictionaries...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
circa 1920
- Size:
-
6 Postcards
1 Map
1 Pamphlet (descriptive leaflet)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2013-001
- Repository:
-
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
