Michael and Lona Kennéy photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Kennéy, Michael, 1904-1982
label: Creator
content: Kennéy, Lona B. Mrs., 1896-1994
place: label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: Kennéy, Michael, 1904-1982
label: Creator
content: Kennéy, Lona B. Mrs., 1896-1994
culture: label: Culture
content: Mongo (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken or collected by Dr. Michael Kennéy while serving as a colonial medical officer in the Belgian Congo from 1933-1939. Eight images are portrait photographs. They are numbers 103, 104, 105, 108, 110, 111, 112, 114
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Michael Kennéy, M.D., 1904-1982, born Mizrah Konn in Rowno, Russia. Attended University of Warsaw, 1923-1925; attended the University of Geneva, 1925-1930 and, from the University of Geneva, earned a Bachelor of Medical Science, 1929 and a M.D., 1930; subsequently studied bacteriology and immunology for an academic year at the University of Warsaw Graduate College and, during a three month course, tropical medicine at the University of Brussels, School of Tropical Medicine, where he was taught by the eminent parasitologist, J. Rodhain; and received a Colonial Physician degree (D.T.M.) in June of 1931. Served as Resident Physician in the Belgian Congo Medical Service, 1933-1935, at the Busu Melo District along a stretch of the lower Congo River; as Chief Medical Officer of the Jadotville (Likasi) District of Katanga in southeastern Congo, 1935-1939; emigrated from Brussels to the United States, 1940; served at Chief of Medical and Laboratory Services at Kwakwani the Berbice District of British Guiana, 1943-1948; returned to the United States in 1948; became a naturalized United States citizen in 1949 and pursued a career in pathology becoming a leading expert in pathoparasitology. For a fuller account of Dr. Kenney's life, see the Journal of Community Health, Vol. 20, No. 3, June 1995, pp. 293-311.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 89 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 12 x 9 cm. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (1 reel (89 interpositives), black & white, 70 mm.)
label: Extent
content: 2 Volumes
label: Extent
content: 16 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 32 x 25 cm. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 237 Photographic prints ((contact prints), black & white, 8x10 in. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 8 Postcards (black & white, 8 x 12 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 237 Photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 8x10 in. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1939
container: label: Container
content: Item 89
label: Container
content: Item 1
label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
label: Container
content: Volume 3
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Prints and negatives were willed to Dr. Pascal James Imperato by Mrs. Lona B. Kennéy and donated by Dr. Imperato to the National Museum of African Art in 1997.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1997-001
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints