Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bas-Congo Province -- Boma
Date:
ca. 1909
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on recto reads: "Boma; La musique militaire." Translated postcard caption reads: "Boma; Military band."
Manuscript message and address on verso, message reads: "Nos meilleures voeux pour la noël et la nouvelle année. Boma, 28/11/09." Translated message reads: "Our best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Boma, 28/11/09."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-38-19
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed text on recto reads: "Musique de la force publique." Translated postcard caption reads: "Band of the 'Force Publique'."
Items EEPA CG-38-36 and EEPA CG-38-37 are duplicate postcards.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-38-36
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed text on recto reads: "Musique de la force publique." Translated postcard caption reads: "Band of the 'Force Publique'."
Items EEPA CG-38-36 and EEPA CG-38-37 are duplicate postcards.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-38-37
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Printed text on recto reads: "Une musique militaire des troupes indigènes." Translated postcard caption reads: "A military band of native troops."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-38-38
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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1 Negatives (photographic) (black and white, 120mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Date:
circa 1936
General:
Strip number: 4308; Larrabee's description on negative sleeve: CSL - S.A. + Paris
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Società Editrice Internazionale (Torino) Search this
Extent:
1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
Container:
Volume 1
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Postcards
Place:
Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Katanga Province -- Lubumbashi -- (Elisabethville)
Date:
ca. 1910
Scope and Contents:
Translated postcard caption reads: "Elisabethville. The professional school band."
Printed text on recto reads: "Missions Salésiennes du Congo Belge - Troisième Série / Salesiaansche Zendingen in Belgisch Congo - Derde Reeks / 25. Elisabethville. La musique de l'Ecole professionnelle. / Elizabethstad - Het muziekkorps der beroepschool."
Printed text on verso reads: "Grâce a votre charité nous avons pu fonder des Missions jusque'aux extrémites de la terr. / -Le Vénérable Don Bosco." Text is repeated in Dutch. Publisher's logo on verso: "SEIT." Additional printed text on verso reads: "Società Editrice Internazionale - Torino."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-09-01
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
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.
Original caption reads, "Tamatave - The Music of the Malagasy Regiment." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Madagascar, 18 November 1907," and "Tamatave, Madagascar, 29 November 1907."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Edition de la Maison P. Ghigiasso, librairie, ameublement, - Tamatave."
Original hand-written address on verso, "Monsieur Lucien Aubert, Sciage Mécanique Senones France Posges."
Original hand-written text on recto, " Ambovombe14 1907."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-38-14
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.
Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bas-Congo Province -- Boma
Date:
ca. 1910
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on recto reads: "27. Boma. La musique de la compagnie du Bas-Congo." Translated postcard caption reads: "27. Boma. Company band of the Lower Congo."
Items EEPA CG-38-32 and EEPA CG-38-34 are duplicate postcards.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-38-32
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
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.
Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Katanga Province -- Kafubu
Date:
ca. 1910
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on verso reads: "11. La musique de l'école de la Kafubu. / 11. Muziekkorps der school van Kafubu." Translated postcard caption reads: "The brassband of the Kafubu school."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "Œuvres de Don Bosco / Préf. Apost. Luapula Supérieur (Congo belge) / Procure: Compte chèques 2719.01 / Werk Van Don Bosco / Apost. Pref. van Boven-Luapula (Belg. Kongo)." Publisher's logo on verso: "S.A.M."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-42-02
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
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.
Original caption reads, "Rue Le Timbre, Native women listening to music." Postmarked and stamped on recto, "Tamatave, Madagascar, 19 April 1905."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "F. Froelich - Tamatave."
Original hand-written address on verso, "Mademoiselle Laurancy. 16 bis, boulevard Morland, 16 Paris France."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-19-12
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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"Armes et Instrumens de Musique du Royaume de Juida"
Extent:
1 Engraving (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (21 x 15.9 cm.))
Container:
Map-case 1, Folder 15
Type:
Archival materials
Engravings
Date:
undated
General:
Citation: T. IV. No. VIII
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Historic Engravings Collection, EEPA 2010-003, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bas-Congo Province -- Boma
Date:
ca. 1910
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on recto reads: "27. Boma. La musique de la compagnie du Bas-Congo." Translated postcard caption reads: "27. Boma. Company band of the Lower Congo."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "J.I.P."
Items EEPA CG-38-32 and EEPA CG-38-34 are duplicate postcards.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-38-34
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Numbering Peculiarities Note:
Verso labeled with former accession number format: A1993-19-10.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed text on recto reads: "13. Congo; Musique de la force armée à Tumba." Translated postcard caption reads: "13. Congo; Band of the armed forces in Tumba."
Manuscript message on recto, address and postmark on verso.
Manuscript message on recto reads: "Ernest, par chaque courrier fais-moi le plaisir de m'adresser le journal de Paris et le crequion. Chers amis, jusqu'à ce jour j'ai joui d'une santé excellente tant sur le bateau qu'à mon arrivée en Afrique. Pour renseignements plus amples, voyez la lettre que j'ai écrite chez moi. Impossible d'écrire plus longuement, je le ferai par le prochain courrier. J'attends le plus tôt possible une lettre du Coq. Amitiés sincères. La Blanche."
Translated message reads: "Ernest, by every mail do me the favor of sending me the Paris journal and the Crequion. Dear friends, to this day I have enjoyed excellent health on the ship as well as on arrival in Africa. For more details see the letter that I have written home. Impossible to write at greater length now. I shall do that with the next mailing. I expect as soon as possible a letter from Le Coq. Yours sincerely."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-38-39
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed caption on recto reads: "98. Congo Français / Conservatoire de Musique de Banziris / Joueurs de Ballophon."
Translated caption reads: "98. French Congo / Banziri Music Conservatory / Balo Players."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Mission Catholique de Brazzaville."
Postmarks on recto and verso; manuscript note on recto, address on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CF-19-03
Collection Restrictions:
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Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bas-Congo Province -- Boma
Date:
ca. 1911
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on recto reads: "La musique de la colonie scolaire et les Pères Missionnaires de Boma."
Translated postcard caption reads: "The music of the colony school and the Missionary Fathers of Boma."
Printed text on verso reads: "Edit. J. B. Verhoeven, Quai Van Dyck, 4, Anvers."
Manuscript date and address on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-42-04
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Louanges des chefs Toma --Chant de danse du masque Angbai. --Musique de fe.te --Chants funerbres --Musiques de fe.te dingli --Musique de divertisement --Solo de tambour-de-bois --Musique de fe.te --Cerrermonie d'excision -- Chant de procession --Musique rituelle pour l'initiation.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-1553
Musee de L'Homme.30107
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
France Musee de L'Homme
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Production notes: Recorded in Guinea in 1952 and 1953.
General:
Title on container: Music of the Toma, Guinea. Program notes in French and English, by Simone Dreyfus, bound in container.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
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