Constance Stuart Larrabee collection
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- Creators:
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Larrabee, Constance Stuart
- Dates:
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1935-1988
bulk 1941-1945
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5115 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 2.5 x 2.5 inches)
3,000 Photographic Prints (silver gelatin, black and white, 8 x 10 inches or smaller)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1998-006
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The majority of the photographs were taken by Constance Stuart Larrabee during her career as a photographer in South Africa, 1941-1945. The images document the peoples of South Africa in Basutoland (now Lesotho), Bechuanaland (now Botswana), Johannesburg, Natal province (including an Anglican Mission school, the town of Ixopo, and the south coast), Soweto, Swaziland, Transkei, eastern Transvaal, the Umzimkulu Valley and Zululand.
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Drewal, Henry John
Drewal, Margaret Thompson
- Dates:
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1970-1989
- Size:
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10,000 slides (color)
10,617 copy slides
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.1992-028
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Both Henry John Drewal and Margaret Drewal traveled to Nigeria, Ghana and Togo (West Africa) for extended periods from 1967-1986. During their trips to Nigeria they conducted research into the ritual performance, masking traditions, and traditional sacred rites of the Yoruba people as well as Mami Wata devotes of Togo, Ghana, and Nigeria. They are the co-authors of Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba (1993).Both Henry John Drewal and Margaret Drewal traveled to Nigeria, Ghana and Togo (West Africa) for extended periods from 1967-1986. During their trips to Nigeria they conducted research into the ritual performance, masking traditions, and traditional sacred rites of the Yoruba people as well as Mami Wata devotes of Togo, Ghana, and Nigeria. They are the co-authors of Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba (1993). Photographs taken by Henry John and Margaret Thompson Drewal during the 1970s and 1980s of Yoruba and Ewe art and culture.
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André Emmerich Gallery
- Dates:
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circa 1929-2009
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309.1 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.andremmg
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The André Emmerich Gallery records and André Emmerich papers measure 311.2 linear feet and date from 1929 to 2009. The collection documents the business of the André Emmerich Gallery as well as André Emmerich's life and activities related to the business of selling art. Gallery records include correspondence; appointment books; administrative and subject files; exhibition files; artist files and accounts; inventory, sales, purchase, and consignment records; chronological files; financial and legal records; printed materials; original artwork; photographic and audiovisual materials. Also found are personal papers and records relating to André Emmerich. TheA small addition received in 2014 includes general correspondence, administrative files, exhibition files, artists' files, inventory records, consignment records, printed material, photographic materials, and André Emmerich personal papers and records.
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Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
- Dates:
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1903-1947
- Size:
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150 Linear Feet (circa 30,000 items)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A.06
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
An outstanding scholar in the field of Iranian studies, Ernst Herzfeld (1879--948) explored all phases of Near Eastern culture from the prehistoric period to Islamic times. This collection documents Herzfeld's excavations at Samarra, Persepolis, Pasargadae, and Aleppo and includes correspondence; field notebooks; drawings; sketchbooks; inventories of objects; "squeeze" copies of architectural details; and photographs.
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National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
- Dates:
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Ongoing
- Size:
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261 Cubic Feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1183.C
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.