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Webb, William F. (donor and possible photographer)
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circa 1975
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6 color prints
18 color negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2003-22
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National Anthropological Archives
Images of a set of carved wooden doors from Zanzibar, which were loaned to the National Museum of Natural History by Evan P. Wright and later donated by William F. Webb. The collection includes images of the doors on exhibit at the museum and copies of photographs of other doors that were possibly also part of the exhibit.
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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
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2016
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1 videodiscs (blu-ray disc)
1 videodiscs (dvd)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2017-007
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection consists of two copies of the DVD "Arts of the Monsoon," (2016) one standard and one Blu-ray. Produced in 2016 by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the film portrays how the dhows, in sailing across the monsoon winds of he Indian Ocwean between Oman and East Africa, brought cross-cultural influences along the coastal areas of Sur, Salalah, and Zanzibar.
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Stanley, Janet
- Dates:
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1981
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47 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1983-001
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Janet Stanley in 1981 during her travels through Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Seychelles.
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Nooter, Robert (photographer )
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1985
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147 slides (photographs) (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1993-012
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Robert and Nancy Nooter of Swahili doors of coastal Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar and pyramids at Meroe, Sudan, 1985.
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Christraud M. Geary East Africa photographs
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Geary, Christraud M.
- Dates:
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1994
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527 slides (photographs) (1 volume, color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1994-008
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Dr. Christraud M. Geary during a research trip to Kenya and Tanzania in August 1994.
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McLaren, Lynn, 1922-
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circa 1950-1969
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648 slides (photographs) (color , 35mm.)
10 Photographic prints (black and white , 8 x 10 inches.)
38 Transparencies (color , 120mm.)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2007-009
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection consists of 38 color transparencies, 648 color slides and 10 black-and-white photographic prints taken by Lynn McLaren Demarest while on assignment for various news outlets in the 1950s and 1960s. A majority of the slides and transparencies were taken in East Africa and document indigenous peoples, agriculture (cotton in particular), health and nutrition education, UNICEF activities, architecture, natural landscapes, animals, fishers, coffee plantations and the sisal industry. Locations include Mobassa, Lamu Island, Zanzibar, Dar es Saalam, Lake Victoria, Mount Kilimajaro, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Mikumi National Park (Tanzania). The black-and-white photographs depict East African leaders, such as Julius Nyerere, and prominent international visitors to the region, including Robert Kennedy. A small number of slides and transparencies were taken in India.
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Patterson, M. Marvin Breckinridge
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1932
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113 Photographic Prints (silver gelatin and copy, black and white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller )
4 folders (manuscript materials)
47 pages (contact sheets)
3 photographs (color)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1985-009
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by M. Marvin Breckinridge Patterson during her trip with Olivia Stokes Hatch from Capetown, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt in 1932. The photographs document the peoples of Africa in Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), Uganda, Congo (Democratic Republic) and Zanzibar. They include the Baila, San, Shona, Xhosa and Zulu.
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Arnold, Cheney & Co.
Moore, Ernst D. (importer, trader)
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1888-1932
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1.6 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0321
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers documenting Moore's work as an ivory trader employed by Arnold, Cheney and Co. Includes copies of his diary entries while working as an ivory trader, financial documents, price lists, his writings on the subject of ivory, articles, a map, and photographs.
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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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Hance, William Adams, 1916-
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1949-1970
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2513 slides (photographs) (color , 35mm.)
17 maps
117 postcards
10 items ((guidebooks))
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2008-008
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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.