L. Gabriel photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Gabriel, Léopold
place: label: Place
content: Panda (Congo)
label: Place
content: Kansenia (Congo)
label: Place
content: Mozambique
label: Place
content: Zambia
label: Place
content: Congo (Brazzaville)
label: Place
content: Lubumbashi (Congo)
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Rwanda
creator: label: Photographer
content: Gabriel, Léopold
culture: label: Culture
content: Luba (African people)
label: Culture
content: Tutsi (African people)
label: Culture
content: Songye (African people)
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content: L. Gabriel photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by L. Gabriel in Central Africa and Mozambique between 1914-1920.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: L. Gabriel, commercial photographer, worked in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the French Congo (now the Congo), Mozambique and Zambia, from the 1910s to 1940.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 370 Postcards (silver gelatin (2 v.), black & white, 9 x 14 cm. or smaller )
unitdate: label: Date
content: between 1920-1940
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs by L. Gabriel assembled by the staff of the National Museum of African Art through donations and purchases, 1989.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1989-001
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arranged by subject.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The photographs document African peoples, mainly in the French and Belgian Congo, during the first half of the 20th century. The images also depict many views of the countryside and cities. Cities documented include Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi), Kansenia, Likasi and Panda in the Congo. Peoples depicted include Luba, Ngale, Songye and Tutsi. Activities documented include men weaving baskets; prisoners in chains carrying wood and working in fields; soldiers performing military exercises and playing in a band; women making pots; and workers building a railroad. There are also portraits of the Mwami (king) of Rwanda and his wife in Western dress, as well as people with different clothing, hair styles and scarification. Objects depicted include baskets, gourds and pots. Buildings shown include a church, a hospital, houses in villages, a prison and a school. There are several images of a copper mine at Likasi, showing the buildings, pits and workers' quarters.