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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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Garrard, Timothy F.
- Dates:
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1980-2002
- Size:
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25,000 items
negatives (color , 35mm)
photographic prints (color , 4 x 6 inches)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2009-013
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of approximately 25,000 images (negatives and prints) taken by the late Dr. Timothy Garrard (1943-2007). Some images were taken in Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso between 1980-1990, but the majority were taken in Cote d'Ivoire from 1983-2002. Subjects depicted include natural and cultural landscapes, the Senufo Poro society, and the Akan, Baule and Senufo peoples.
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- Dates:
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circa 1946
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104 Photographic prints (album)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2005-014
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of an album containing 104 photographic prints dating from circa 1946. The photographs depict British soliders and native police, landscape views, a Victory Day parade, and scenes of daily life in and around Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Accra, Achimota, Takoradi, Teshi and Tamale in Ghana. Also included are images of the Volta River, the Oburi (Aburi) Gardens near Accra, and Osu Castle (also known as Fort Christiansborg or Christiansborg Castle), the seat of government in Ghana.
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- Dates:
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circa 1885-1910
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128 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 13 x 18 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2000-004
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs of Madagascar in the early French colonial period and Merina Kingdom in Central Madagascar, ca. 1887-1900. Portrait images include Queen Ranavalona III (exiled to Algiers in 1897), her husband, the Prime Minister, and other royals. There are images are of Malagasy women from other parts of the island.
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Farkas, Klara
- Dates:
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1971
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8 Slides (photographs) (1 volume, color, mounted, 35 mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1971-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Klara Farkas in Ethiopia in 1971.
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Blakely, Thomas
Elisofon, Eliot
Gardner, Robert
- Dates:
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1974
- Size:
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1 item (DVD , col.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2012-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Film (DVD format) entitled "African Carving: A Dogon Kanaga Mask" by Thomas Blakely and Eliot Elisofon in collaboration with Robert Gardner. Originally produced in 1974, this color copy was released in 2008 and runs 19 minutes.
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Heldman, Donald
- Dates:
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Fall 1967-Spring 1968
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23 Photographs ((1 box), 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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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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Pringle, Robert, 1936-
- Dates:
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circa 1980-1989
- Size:
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2136 Slides (photographs) (color , 35mm.)
829 Negatives (photographic) (color , 35mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2006-006
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection contains 2136 color 35mm slides and 829 color 35mm negatives taken by Robert Pringle, former Ambassador to Mali, between 1980-1989. The images were taken in Mali, Burkina Faso and Kenya, and depict masquerades, vernacular architecture (including Dogon doors and granaries), mosques, marketplace scenes, pottery, masks (including plank and leaf masks), weaving, art in situ, animals and landscapes. Culture groups represented in the collection include the Tuareg, Lobi, Maasai, Mossi, Dogon, Fula and Bobo (Bwa) peoples. Ambassador Pringle traveled with photographer Christopher Roy and some of Pringle's images depict Roy at work with his own camera.
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Kyriazis, Dimitrios, 1933-2001
- Dates:
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between 1950-1974
- Size:
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3797 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 35 mm.)
12 Negatives (photographic) (color, 35 mm.)
1590 Slides (photographs) (color)
5,407 Items (contact images (2 v.), black & white)
20 Items (transparencies (framed), color, 4 x 4 cm.)
794 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 6 x 6 cm.)
399 Negatives (photographic) (color, 6 x 6 cm.)
764 Items (transparencies, color, 6 x 6 cm.)
1 Manuscripts (document genre) (1 v., 8 x 10 in.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1999-005
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Dimitri Kyriazis while at the Institute for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, from ca. 1950 through the end of the reign of Emperor Halie Selassie I in 1974.
