Photographs taken by Dr. Christraud M. Geary during a research trip to Kenya and Tanzania in August 1994.
Scope and Contents:
The collection is comprised of photographs from one trip Geary took to Kenya and Tanzania between August 1-13, 1994. In Kenya, she visited Lamu, Manda Island, Shela, Mombasa, and Nairobi. She also traveled to Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar in Tanzania. Subjects include: artists working at the Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society in Dar es Salaam; museums, including the Lamu Museum, the Fort Jesus Museum, and the National Museum of Kenya; ruins of the ancient town of Takwa; the Sultan's Palace (Bait As-Sahel); Tropicana Studio and Capital Art Studio in Zanzibar; Jozani Forest on Changuu Island; and the ruins of Marahubi Palace. A few of the photographs depict anthropologist Doran Ross.
Arrangement note:
Arranged chronologically and by location into seven subseries.
Subseries 1.1: Lamu, Kenya, 1994 August 1-2
Subseries 1.2: Manda Island, Kenya, 1994 August 2
Subseries 1.3: Shela, Kenya, 1994 August 2
Subseries 1.4: Mombasa, Kenya, 1994 August 3-4
Subseries 1.5: Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1994 August 5-8
Subseries 1.6: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1994 August 9-10
Subseries 1.7: Nairobi, Kenya, 1994 August 11,13
Biographical/Historical note:
Christraud M. Geary (1946-) was formally a curator of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the National Museum of African Art. She received a PhD in cultural anthropology and African studies from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, in 1973. Geary specializes in the history of photography in Africa and in the study of African art.
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Genre/Form:
Color slides
Citation:
Christraud M. Geary photographs of East Africa, EEPA 1994-008, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
The collection consists of 38 color transparencies, 648 color slides and 10 black-and-white photographic prints taken by Lynn McLaren Demarest while on assignment for various news outlets in the 1950s and 1960s. A majority of the slides and transparencies were taken in East Africa and document indigenous peoples, agriculture (cotton in particular), health and nutrition education, UNICEF activities, architecture, natural landscapes, animals, fishers, coffee plantations and the sisal industry. Locations include Mobassa, Lamu Island, Zanzibar, Dar es Saalam, Lake Victoria, Mount Kilimajaro, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Mikumi National Park (Tanzania). The black-and-white photographs depict East African leaders, such as Julius Nyerere, and prominent international visitors to the region, including Robert Kennedy. A small number of slides and transparencies were taken in India.
Arrangement note:
Arrangement reflects the original order established by the photographer.
Biographical/Historical note:
Lynn McLaren (1922-2008) was a professional photojournalist who worked on assignment for National Geographic, Life, Newsweek and Business Week since the 1950s and 1960s. A member of the Society of Women Geographers, McLaren lived and traveled extensively around the world, photographing peoples and places in Kenya, Tanzania (Zanzibar), India, Nepal, Spain, Germany and the United States. McLaren was also the author of five books, including Berlin and the Berliners and The Village: The People (India), all of which are richly illustrated with her photographs. In 2007, she had a major retrospective of her photography, Fifty Years of Photographs from Around the World, at the Marion Art Center in Marion, Massachusetts.
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Original caption reads, "[Lamu Island dock]". Original number, "B75072, #4, BKS T116"
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Original caption reads, "[Mangrove pole loading]". Original number, "B75072, #6, BKS T127"
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Original caption reads, "Kenya - dhows; Lamu". Original number, "B75072, #003"
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Original caption reads, "Kenya: Lamu Island; Arab fort on island". Â
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Original caption reads, "Kenya/Lamu Island; Arab fort at Lamu". Original number, "B75072, #2, BKS T15"
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Original caption reads, "Kenya/Lamu Island; Arab town on coast with narrow streets". Original number, "B75072, #8, BKS T12"
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Original caption reads, "Kenya; Lamu Island; Mangrove pole loading". Original number, "B75072, #7, BKS T125"
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Original caption reads, "Kenya/Lamu Island, town of Lamu. Women in bui-bui; Arab". Original number, "B75072, #8, BKS T115"
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Original caption reads, "[Wall of fort and view of harbor]". Original number, "B75072, #4, BKS T18"
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Original caption reads, "Kenya - Lamu Island; Arab women in bui-bui". Original number, "B75072, #8, BKS T116"
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Original caption reads, "[Dhow worker on deck]". Original number, "B75072, BKS T17"
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Original caption reads, "[Dhow workers on deck]". Original number, "B75072, BKS T16"
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Original caption reads, "Kenya/Lamu Island; View of harbor". Original number, "B75072, #4, BKS T118"
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Original caption reads, "Kenya. Lamu Island; Wall of fort and view of harbor". Original number, "B75072, #4, BKS T17"
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Original caption reads, "[Carrying mangrove poles]". Original number, "B75072, #6, BKS T116"
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Original caption reads, "[Harbor street in Arab coastal town]". Original number, "B75072, #4, BKS T123"
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Original caption reads, "[Unloading Persian rugs from Arab dhows]". Original number, "B75072, #9, BKS T119"
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Original caption reads, "[Mangrove poles stacked for dhow trade export]". Original number, "B75072, #6, BKS T12"
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