91 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 11 x 15 cm. or smaller)
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Black-and-white photographs
Place:
Uganda
Africa
Date:
circa 1895 - 1925
Scope and Contents:
Front cover of the album is inscribed "Amy J. Welsh, June 19--, Igauga [Iganga], Busoga." Photographs from the Kingdoms of the Interlacustrine area in East Africa. Contains portraits of King Daudi, Four Kings and their Prime Ministers, Sir Apolo Kagwa, Chief Bongo, Reverand B. Musoke, and a Busoga Chief. Images also show relics in a Tutsi tomb, missionary hospital and schools, marketplaces, weddings and other daily life. Additional group and family photographs of Christian missionaries in the region.
Arrangement note:
Images indexed by page number.
Biographical / Historical:
Album was compiled by Christian missionary Amy J. Welsh while working in Iganga, Uganda between 1906 and 1925.
Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Terence Robsjohn-Gibbings sitting with a typewriter
Subject:
Robsjohn-Gibbings, T. H. (Terence Harold) Search this
Type:
Photographs
Date:
between 1940 and 1949
Citation:
Terence Robsjohn-Gibbings sitting with a typewriter, between 1940 and 1949. Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings papers, 1915-1977, 1898. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
174 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, albumen prints , 15.5 x 23 cm. or smaller)
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Black-and-white photographs
Place:
Nigeria
Africa
Madeira Islands
Bonny (Nigeria)
Sapele (Nigeria)
Brass (Nigeria)
Old Calabar (Nigeria)
Opobo Town Nigeria -- Photographs
Africa -- Colonization
Niger Coast Protectorate -- 1893-1899
Date:
[circa 1890-1900]
Summary:
This album was likely compiled by a British official posted in the Niger Delta between the 1890s and 1900. It contains photographs of British officers and troops around the British invasion of the Benin Kingdom as well as views of the British-imposed Oil Rivers Protectorate and Niger Coast Protectorate in Old Calabar, Opobo, and Bonny. It also includes portraits of Ovonramwen, the King of Benin, on his way into exile in 1897, and of other kings and rulers in the Niger Delta kingdoms.
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains photographs of Ovonramwen, the King of Benin, on his way into exile in 1897, and of other kings and rulers in the Niger Delta kingdoms. Portraits included are Prince Archibong III of Old Calabar, New Calabar Chief and Wives, Lady Egba and Chief Chief Ogbe Yonwuren, Ladies of Rank in Old Calabar, Eyo Honesty VIII, Chief Long John of Bonny, chiefs of Opobo, and Chief Oko Jumbo. Portraits of British subjects included are of Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald and Lady Ethel Macdonald, Roger Casement, Sir Ralph Moor, Mary Kingsley, Deputy J.R. Phillips, Dr. R.A. Shekleton, Commissioner A. Harcourt, Mr. T.A. Wall, and Captain Boler. Includes scenes of weddings, iria outfits, steamships, regattas, the Queen's Jubilee of 1897, British colonial officials, trading ports, sports, coffee plantations, and consulates in Bonny, Warri, Old Calabar, Opobo, Kwa Ibo, and Sapele. Some landscape views of Madeira.
Arrangement note:
Images indexed by negative number.
Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Photo taken in Abomey showing descendant of King Glele of Old Abomey. The date on the slide is JAN72 .
Local Numbers:
L-1
A 2 FON IL 72
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Photo taken in Porto-Novo of descendant of King Toffa of Porto-Novo. The date on the slide is AUG72 .
Local Numbers:
L-2
A 2 FON IL 72
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Photo taken in Abomey showing descendant of King Glele of Old Abomey. The date on the slide is JAN72 .
Local Numbers:
L-1
A 2 FON IL 72
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Photo taken in Porto-Novo. The date on the slide is AUG72 .
Local Numbers:
L-3
A 2 FON IL 72
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Photo taken in Porto-Novo. The date on the slide is NOV71 .
Local Numbers:
L-4
A 2 FON IL 72
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Photo taken in a small village showing an elderly gentleman, most likely a Somba. The date on the slide is APR72 .
Local Numbers:
L-5
A 2 FON IL 72
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.