Congo, Republic of the, -- Commune de Brazzaville, -- Brazzaville
Date:
[ca. 1907]
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on recto reads: "12. - Congo. -Brazzaville. - Un boy Bangala."
Translated caption reads: "12. Congo. Brazzaville: A Bangala boy."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Cliché Vialle, Brazzavile - Phototypie Meyrignac et Puydebois, Brive (France)."
Postmarked postage stamp on recto. Manuscript address on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CF-20-23
Provenance:
JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase; 1992.
Collection Restrictions:
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Printed recto caption reads: "37. Congo Belge / Types Bangala." Text repeated in dutch. Translated caption reads: "37. Belgian Congo. Bangala types."
Postage stamp printed on verso.
Items EEPA CG-20-17, CG-20-18, CG-20-19, and CG-20-20 are duplicate postcards.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-20-19
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Numbering Peculiarities Note:
Verso labeled with former accession number format: A1993-19-76.
Provenance:
Mrs. Jo Bernick donation; FY 1993 EEPA 1993-019
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Verso labeled with additional accession number: 1985-140700.
Provenance:
Howard Woody; purchase; FY 1994; EEPA 1994-006
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Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Équateur Province -- Makanza
Date:
ca. 1911
Scope and Contents:
Translated postcard caption reads, "Makanza woman ( Bangala)." Manuscript message on verso reads, " Merci beaucoup pour votre aimable carte du Congo. Je vous adresse ainsi qu'à Madame mes respectueuses amitiés." Translated message reads, "Thank you for your attractive cards of the Congo. I send you madam my respect and my friendship." Postmark on verso, date reads: "22 VIII 1911 [August 8, 1911]."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-05-04
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Printed caption on recto reads: "Congo. - Boys Bangala." Translated caption reads, "Congo - Bangala native servants."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Nels, Bruxelles, Série 14, n. 111."
Signature on recto, address on verso. Postmarked postage stamp on recto.
Items EEPA CG-19-13, CG-19-14, CG-19-15, and CG-19-16 bear duplicate recto images with slight variations in postcard format.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-19-16
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Provenance:
JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bas-Congo Province -- Matadi
Date:
ca. 1920
Scope and Contents:
Printed caption on verso reads: "Matadi; Soldat Bangala - Tatoué." Translated postcard caption reads: "Matadi. Bangala soldier - Tattooed."
Printed text on verso reads: "Éditions D'Art E. Stockmans & Co. Anvers."
Postmarked postage stamp on recto, manuscript address on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-38-04
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Congo Français Congo Français - Femme Bangla - Tatouages de face
Extent:
1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Postcards
Place:
Africa
Congo (Brazzaville)
Date:
[ca. 1905]
Scope and Contents:
Translated caption reads: ''French Congo. Bangala woman. Front tattoos.'' Bare torso woman, with cicatrices running down to her belly button. Two crosses shape above her breasts. Horizontal cicatrices on her tummy. Cicatrices on her forehead. Scarf attached around her waist. Congo Français. Photograph by J. Audema
Local Numbers:
Audema 0277
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Image indexed by negative number.
Provenance:
JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Photographs made by George H. Stathes in northern Nigeria, Ghana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda during the mid 1960s. Stathes' photographs depict people, agriculture, markets, fishing and fisheries, roads, a cemetery, ceremonies and dances, art, and Rwenzori Mountains.
Biographical/Historical note:
George H. Stathes (1925-1996) worked for the Ford Foundation and Texaco Oil, mostly in Nigeria.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 99-10
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Abuja pottery collected by Stathes held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 2010265.
Photographs made and collected by Alexis B. McMullen documenting peoples and culture in West Africa. The images created by McMullen and Captain D. B. McCloskey depict ceremonies at Kibib honoring Ofori Atta, a chief in the Central Province of the Gold Coast; a dance to the god of the sea at Teshi; and fishing boats and equipment. Additionally, the collection contains photographic postcards collected by McMullen and made by Casimir Zagourski, Leopoldville, and Methodist Book Depots, Cape Coast. These show African "types," a Bwake female circumcision ceremony (please note contains graphic images of circumcision), scarification (cicatrization), African animals (including giraffes, elephants, and a hippopotamus), agriculture, dances, and musical instruments. Depicted West African peoples include the Ashanti, Bangala, Banziri, Hausa, Kuba, Kumu, Mangbetu, Mputu and Tutsi.
Biographical/Historical note:
Colonel Alexis B. McMullen participated in American aviation activities for about 50 years. During World War II, he was the commanding officer of a United States Air Corps Air Transport Command (ATC) base in Accra, Ghana (then the Gold Coast).
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 90-14
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Air and Space Museum Archives Division holds the Colonel Alexis B. McMullen Collection, 1915-1983, documenting McMullen's aviation career and interests.
Additional Zagourski photographs can be found in the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives in EEPA 1987-0024 and the EEPA Postcard Collection.
Photo Lot 90-14, Colonel Alexis B. McMullen photograph and postcard collection relating to West Africa, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The photographs document African businesses, cities, industry, landscapes, peoples and resources. The collection documents various locations within Kenya, Tanzania, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa. Peoples represented include Kikuyu, Maasai, Bangi, Chagga, Ndombe, Poto, Bangala, Zulu, and Kongo peoples. There are many images of agriculture, hunting, making pottery, mining diamonds and gold, church services at a Catholic mission, a gathering of chiefs at a court, a lion-killing ceremony, and war dances. Businesses and industries shown include coffee plantations; the DeBeers Diamond Mine; a diamond mine compound and crushing mill; fishing boats; a hemp plantation; ivory trade; a market; and the stock market.
Scope and Contents:
The photographs document African businesses, cities, industry, landscapes, peoples and resources. Place documented include Moshi Province, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru, the Serengeti Plain (Kenya), and Zanzibar in German East Africa (now Tanzania); Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); Cape Town, Devil's Peak, Johannesburg, Kimberly, Natal Province, and Port Elizabeth in South Africa; the waterfront of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Soko, Boma, Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), and Stanley Falls (now Boyoma Falls). There are also photographs of the Nile during a flood.
People portrayed include a Kikuyu man paying brideprice for a wife; Kikuyu women carrying water vessels and planting beans; Maasai women building houses; Swahili people dancing; Swahili women using a power figure to ward off evil; and Zulu men training for war. Other peoples portrayed include Bangala, Bangi, Chagga, Kongo, Ndombe and Poto.
Activities documented include buying ivory, carrying rubber, clearing the ground for a coffee plantation, fishing, gambling, grinding corn, hunting zebra, making pottery, mining diamonds and gold, peeling bark for bark cloth, picking coffee, preparing food, smoking meat, threshing beans, and tying house poles. There are also images of church services at a Catholic mission, a gathering of chiefs at a court, a lion-killing ceremony, and war dances.
Businesses and industries shown include coffee plantations in Rhodesia; the DeBeers Diamond Mine in South Africa; a diamond mine compound and crushing mill; fishing boats off Cape Town; a hemp plantation in Uganda; ivory trade in Mombasa, Kenya; a market; and the stock market in Johannesburg.
Biographical / Historical:
In 1882 the Underwood and Underwood Company began operations in Kansas. Founded by brothers Bert Elias (1862-1943) and Elmer (1860-1947) Underwood, the company pioneered the technique of selling stereographs door-to-door. By 1884, Underwood and Underwood's operations had expanded to the West Coast, and the company soon opened offices throughout the world. In the 1890s, the firm began selling images to publications such as Illustrated London News and Harper's Weekly. At its peak in the early 19th century, the company produced 25,000 images per day.
In the late 1910s, Underwood and Underwood was purchased by a competing stereograph company, the Keystone View Company.
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Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. The original glass plate is available for inspection if necessary in the Archives Center. A limited number of fragile glass negatives and positives in the collection can be viewed directly in the Archives Center by prior appointment. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection 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.
Printed caption on recto reads: "Congo. - Types de Bangalas." Translated postcard caption reads: "Congo. - Bangala Types."
Manuscript signature and address on verso. Postmarked postage stamp on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-20-166
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Translated postcard caption reads, "Types of Bangala tattooing."
Printed text on verso reads: "Edit.: Librarie Belge R. Louis, Elisabethville." Publisher's logo on recto and verso: "Nels."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-05-14
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed text on verso reads: "Peter frères, Produits coloniaux, Anvers-Kinshasa."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-15-15
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Printed caption on recto reads: "Quelques femmes de Kassai et Bangalla." Translated caption reads, "Some women from Kassai and Bangalla."
Manuscript message and address on verso, message reads, "Tu les vois avec leurs chapelets, tu peux être certain qu'elles seront les premières à venir au moindre appel imitant leur patronne Madeleine mais il leur sera pardonné parce qu'elles auront beaucoup aimé! A part cela de vrais chameaux qui discutent le prix et prétendent être payées d'avance. Point de ressemblance avec celles qui se baladent sur nos boulevards. A bientôt." Translated message reads, "Look at them with their rosaries, you can bet they would be the first to come running at the first call imitating Madeleine their mistress but all will be forgiven to them because they will have loved so much! Apart from that true cows who haggle over the price and want to be paid in advance a likeness with those who stroll our boulevards. Soon"
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Varella & Oliveira, Thysville." Postmarks on verso, date reads: "26 JANV 08."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-19-12
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: "Congo. - Boys Bangala." Translated caption reads, "Congo - Bangala native servants."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "Nels, Bruxelles, Série 14, n. 111."
Manuscript message on recto, message reads: "Mes meilleurs voeux de nouvelles années." Translated message reads: "My best wishes for the new year." Manuscript address and postmark on verso, date reads: "7 - JANV 08."
Items EEPA CG-19-13, CG-19-14, CG-19-15, and CG-19-16 bear duplicate recto images with slight variations in postcard format.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-19-13
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed recto caption reads: "37. Congo Belge / Types Bangala." Text repeated in dutch. Translated caption reads: "37. Belgian Congo. Bangala types."
Manuscript message and address on verso, message reads: "Léo. le 1-5-17. Mon cher Nicolas, je vous envoye le bonjour de Léo. et une bonne santé. Votre père qui vous embrasse." Translated message reads: "Léo., 1-5-17. My dear Nicolas, I send you greetings from Léo. and all the best. Your father who kisses you."
Postage stamp printed on verso. Postmark on verso.
Items EEPA CG-20-17, CG-20-18, CG-20-19, and CG-20-20 are duplicate postcards.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-20-17
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed recto caption reads: "37. Congo Belge / Types Bangala." Text repeated in dutch. Translated caption reads: "37. Belgian Congo. Bangala types."
Postmark and manuscript address on verso. Postage stamp printed on verso.
Items EEPA CG-20-17, CG-20-18, CG-20-19, and CG-20-20 are duplicate postcards.
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-20-18
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Printed text on verso reads: "Peter frères, Produits coloniaux, Anvers-Kinshasa." Numbers printed on lower right recto corner read: "23807."
Local Numbers:
EEPA CG-20-106
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
Citation source: Archives staff.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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