Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Series Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Motion Pictures, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
206 Photographic prints ((2 boxes), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
130 Slides (photographs) ((1 vol), color)
23 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
Container:
Box 1
Box 2
Box 3
Volume 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Slides (photographs)
Color slides
Black-and-white photographs
Place:
Africa
Mali
Tanzania
Morocco
Date:
1949-1953
Summary:
Photographic images taken by Hector R. Acebes from 1949 to 1953 throughout many countries to include Mali, Tanzania and Morocco.
Arrangement note:
Images indexed by negative number.
Biographical/Historical note:
Hector Acebes, a native of New York and a graduate (1947) in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an industrial film maker with offices in New York, Madrid, and Bogota. He is also an adventurer who has conducted and recorded by motion and still photography expeditions in Africa and Venezuela. His works on these explorations have appeared on television and have been described in several books.
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.
Genre/Form:
Color slides
Photographic prints
Black-and-white photographs
Identifier:
EEPA.2000-009
Archival Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Treasures from American film archives [videorecording] : 50 preserved films / producer, National Film Preservation Foundation ; curator, Scott Simmon ; music curator, Martin Marks