Nigeria photograph album
name: label: Photographer
content: Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905
label: Names
content: Archibong, Prince, III
label: Names
content: Boler, Richard Doubleday, Captain
label: Names
content: Brown, William Abobo, Chief
label: Names
content: Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916
label: Names
content: Honesty, Eyo, VIII
label: Names
content: Jumbo, Oko, Chief, -1891
label: Names
content: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900
label: Names
content: Locke , Ralph Frederick
label: Names
content: MacDonald, Claude Maxwell, Sir, 1852-1915
label: Names
content: MacDonald, Ethel, Lady, 1857-1941
label: Names
content: Moor, Ralph Denham Rayment, Sir, 1860-1909
label: Names
content: Ovonramwen, King of Benin, -1914
label: Names
content: Phillips, James Robert, -1897
label: Names
content: Shekleton, R.A., Dr.
label: Names
content: Wall, T.A.
label: Names
content: Yonwuren, Ogbe, Chief, ca. 1830 -
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Madeira Islands
label: Place
content: Bonny (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Sapele (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Brass (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Old Calabar (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Opobo Town Nigeria -- Photographs
label: Place
content: Africa -- Colonization
label: Place
content: Niger Coast Protectorate -- 1893-1899
topic: label: Topic
content: Portrait photography -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Canoes
label: Topic
content: Troops
label: Topic
content: Regattas
label: Topic
content: Government and politics -- chiefs
creator: label: Photographer
content: Green, J. A. (Jonathan Adagogo), 1873-1905
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content: Nigeria photograph album
abstract: label: Summary
content: This album was likely compiled by a British official posted in the Niger Delta between the 1890s and 1900. It contains photographs of British officers and troops around the British invasion of the Benin Kingdom as well as views of the British-imposed Oil Rivers Protectorate and Niger Coast Protectorate in Old Calabar, Opobo, and Bonny. It also includes portraits of Ovonramwen, the King of Benin, on his way into exile in 1897, and of other kings and rulers in the Niger Delta kingdoms.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 174 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, albumen prints , 15.5 x 23 cm. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [circa 1890-1900]
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchase, 2000. Conserved through a preservation grant funded by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee, 2006.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2000-003
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains photographs of Ovonramwen, the King of Benin, on his way into exile in 1897, and of other kings and rulers in the Niger Delta kingdoms. Portraits included are Prince Archibong III of Old Calabar, New Calabar Chief and Wives, Lady Egba and Chief Chief Ogbe Yonwuren, Ladies of Rank in Old Calabar, Eyo Honesty VIII, Chief Long John of Bonny, chiefs of Opobo, and Chief Oko Jumbo. Portraits of British subjects included are of Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald and Lady Ethel Macdonald, Roger Casement, Sir Ralph Moor, Mary Kingsley, Deputy J.R. Phillips, Dr. R.A. Shekleton, Commissioner A. Harcourt, Mr. T.A. Wall, and Captain Boler. Includes scenes of weddings, iria outfits, steamships, regattas, the Queen's Jubilee of 1897, British colonial officials, trading ports, sports, coffee plantations, and consulates in Bonny, Warri, Old Calabar, Opobo, Kwa Ibo, and Sapele. Some landscape views of Madeira.