[Boys standing at entrance to Quintas], 1938 October 20
Creator:
Landes, Ruth 1908-1991
Physical description:
4 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 3.5 centimeters and 3.5 x 5 centimeters
Culture:
Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians
Type:
Photographs
Place:
Brazil
Salvador (Brazil)
Bahia (Brazil : State)
Date:
1938
1938 October 20
Topic:
Boys
Local number:
Image ID landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0462
Image ID landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0471
Image ID landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0484
Image ID landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0486
Image ID landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0551
Summary:
Photographs from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador)
Handwritten by Landes on versos:
landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0462 - "Quintas boys. Left one askd 4 pictr & ltr clld over x shy one bhnd. Oct. 20, 1938. Bahia."
1 photographic print : black & white ; 3 x 4 centimeters
Culture:
Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians
Type:
Photographs
Place:
Brazil
Salvador (Brazil)
Bahia (Brazil : State)
Date:
1938
1938 October
Topic:
Boys
Local number:
Image ID landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0467
Summary:
Children of filhas of Sabina, Caboclo Candomblé high priestess. Photograph from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador). Handwritten by Landes on verso: "João on r. Sabina's hs. Oct. 1938"
Cite as:
landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0467, Brazil: Bahian blacks and candomblé [2 of 3], Box 62, Ruth Landes Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Three boys standing in middle of road in Quintas, 1938 October 20
Creator:
Landes, Ruth 1908-1991
Physical description:
2 photographic prints : black & white ; 5 x 3.5 centimeters and 3.5 x 5 centimers
Culture:
Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians
Type:
Photographs
Place:
Brazil
Salvador (Brazil)
Bahia (Brazil : State)
Date:
1938
1938 October 20
Topic:
Boys
Local number:
Image ID landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0461
Image ID landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0485
Summary:
Photographs from anthropologist Ruth Landes' 1938-1939 field research on Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil in the city of Bahia (now known as Salvador)
Handwritten by Landes on versos:
landes_photo_brazil_91-4_0461 - "Quintas boys. 1 ws x center one wh rqst pictr. Oct. 20, 1938. Bahia."
Costume includes short outer robe (soch'angot); hairdo (kwimit-mŏri-style [literally, hair hanging behind ears] the style worn before the coming of age); and hair ribbon (tanggi or taenggi)
Cite as:
Manuscript 7339 (11), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Afro American Boy Group 1933 [cellulose acetate photonegative]
Photographers:
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Film manufacturer:
Defender
Subject:
Y.M.C.A
Physical description:
Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet
1 item, [8" x 10"]
Culture:
African Americans Washington (D.C.)
Type:
Photographs
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
1933
1930-1940
Topic:
African American boys
African American businesspeople
African Americans
Local number:
Box 618.04.99
AC0618.004.0001375.tif (scan number)
No Scurlock number
Summary:
Posed group of boys with two girls and six men standing in rows on the exterior steps of the Tweflth Street Branch of the Y.M.C.A. Several of the group are holding signs which read, "We are Jim's Buddies", "Here come the business men of the future" and "We are 'Afro' sales boys". Ink on negative: caption. "[Defender sa]EFTY BAS[e]" edge imprint
Cite as:
Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History