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Seligman, Thomas K.
- Dates:
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1970-2004
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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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Aylette Jenness Collection
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Jenness, Aylette
- Dates:
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1967-1969
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2293 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35 mm)
46 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120. mm)
72 Contact sheets (black and white)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2015-019
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection includes photographs taken by Aylette Jenness in northern Nigeria between 1967 and 1969. They document daily life in a remote part of Yauri Emerite, focusing on the townspeople of Yelwa and those in its environs.
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- Dates:
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1936-1941
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269 Photographic prints (1 box, 1 album; black & white, 12 x 16 cm. )
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1995-019
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection includes one photographic album containing 269 silver gelatin black and white prints (12 x 16 cm.) and dates from 1936-1941. The photographs were taken in northern Ethiopia, and possibly Somalia. The images highlight peoples including the Danakil and Afar, dress, adornments, coiffures, churches, and historical residence, among other subjects.
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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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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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Pringle, Robert, 1936-
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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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Ottenberg, Simon
- Dates:
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between 1951-1960
- Size:
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1068 Slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2000-007
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Simon Ottenberg in Southeastern Nigeria within the Afikpo Village Group, at the time a group of 22 Eastern Igbo villages (sometimes considered part of the Cross River Igbo grouping) in southeastern Nigeria, while on a pre-doctoral Social Science Research Grant from December of 1951 through March of 1953 and during field research from September of 1959 to December of 1960. Also included are photographs taken from June of 1960 to December of 1960 of Abakaliki, a town and the administrative center of the northestern Igbo people, north of Afikpo. According to Dr. Ottenberg in his publication about masked Afikpo rituals, "The Afikpo belong to an Igbo subgroup called Ada or Edda (Forde and Jones 1950, pp. 51-56), which includes the Okpaha, Edda, Amaseri, and Unwana village-groups, all of which border on the Afikpo, and the Nkporo and Adaeze, both short distances away" (Masked Rituals of Afikpo, 1975, p. 3).
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Unknown
- Dates:
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between 1912-1915
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227 Photographic prints (1 album (61 pages), black and white, 17 x 12 cm. or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-010
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection is comprised of copy prints of album pages depicting scenes in and around Ngaoundere, Cameroon, circa 1912-1915. The photographs were taken by an unidentified German soldier. Images depict portraits, village scenes, European soldiers, landscapes, and vernacular architecture.
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Jopling, Carol F.
- Dates:
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1981-1984
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74 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (including some mounted for exhibition))
442 Negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
326 Contact prints (326 contact prints (on proof sheets))
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.98-37
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Carol F. Jopling documenting the Kuna, Choco, and Guaymi peoples of Panama, as well as the Panama Canal and scenery. Jopling's photographs depict Choco and Kuna dwellings (including their construction), Choco people waiting to receive vaccinations from Navy personnel, agriculture (including coconut harvesting), boats in the Pana...
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Plowden, David
- Dates:
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1981
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1020
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs documenting the steel industry. Subjects include blast furnaces, steel mills, ore barges, and other related subjects.
