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Faber, Eduoard Otto
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circa 1918-1943
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168 prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.97-33
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Images of Congolese people, villages, boats, events, and scenery as well as possibly Faber and his friends and colleagues.
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Smithsonian Institution, Office of Exhibits Programs
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circa 1960-1971
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 04-060
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of drawings documenting early exhibitions at the Museum of History and Technology, including the Hall of Tools, the Hall of Vehicles, and the Halls of Medical Sciences. Some displays for the Halls of Medical Sciences were first exhibited in the Arts and Industries Building. A few materials document an exhibition on...
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MS 1999-23 Herbert Ward drawings from the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
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Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919
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circa 1886-1889
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51 Drawings (Disbound album :)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1999-23
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
This collection is composed of a disbound album containing fifty-one drawings by Herbert Ward, made when he was a member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Most of the drawings depict men and women of the upper Congo River, but several others depict tools and implements.
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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
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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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Betty Stanley, Mrs
Roy, Christopher D.
Stanley, C. Maxwell, 1904-1984 (collector and philanthropist)
- Dates:
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1985
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120 slides (photographs) (1 volume , color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1987-002
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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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Elisofon, Eliot
- Dates:
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1942-1972
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5,000 Photographic Prints ((10 boxes), b&w, 14 x 11 in. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1973-002
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Eliot Elisofon in Africa and in European and American museums and collections during his extensive travels from 1942 through 1972. African kingdoms and peoples represented include Afo, Anyi, Asante, Atie, Baga, Bamana, Baule, Bembe, Benin, Bobo, Boki, Bozo, Chamba, Chokwe, Dan, Dinka, Dogon, Ebrie, Efik, Ejagham, Hausa, Ibibio, Idoma, Ife, Igbo-Ukwu, Ijo, Jenne, Jukun, Kamba, Kissi, Kom, Kongo, Kono, kota, Kpelle, Kuba, Kuyu, Kwele, Lega, Lobi, Loma, Lozi, Luba, Lulua, Lunda, Mambila, Mende, Mossi, Nalu, Ndebele, Ngbaka, Ngoni, Nok, Nupe, Nyamwezi, Pende, Suku, Susu, Tabwa, Teke, Temne, Tetela, Tiv, Tuareg, Urhobo, Vai, Woyo, Yaka, Yoruba, and Zande.
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Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
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undated
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98 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7235
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
This manuscript probably represents what Horatio Hale originally intended to publish on southern Africa in his Philology and Ethnology that is one of the volumes of the report of the United States Exploring Expedition (Wilkes Expedition). It includes several vocabularies, comparative vocabularies, and notes on the location and appearance (especiall...
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1747-circa 1905
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154 Items (29 folders, engravings, 21 1/2 x 16 in. (54.6 x 40.6 cm.) or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2010-003
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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.
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National Museum of African Art. Office of the Director
- Dates:
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1980-2008
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-011
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) exhibition records created during the tenures of Warren M. Robbins, Director, 1964-1982; John E. Reinhardt, Acting Director, 1982-1983; Sylvia H. Williams, Director, 1983-1996; Roslyn A. Walker, Director, 1997-2002; and Sharon F. Patton, Director, 2003-2008. Exhibitions include:...
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Schrag, Norm (Norman G.), 1947-1988
- Dates:
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circa 1986
- Size:
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89 Photographic prints ((1 volume), black and white, 5 x 7 in. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1995-039
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Norman G. Schrag during work in the Congo in support of his dissertation on Boma and the lower Congo from 1785-1885.