H.G.L. Smith photographs
odd: label: General note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
name: label: Photographer
content: Smith, H.G.L.
place: label: Place
content: Zimbabwe
label: Place
content: Victoria Falls Zimbabwe -- Photographs
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Zambezi River
topic: label: Topic
content: Animals -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Hunting -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Rhodesia
label: Topic
content: Tonga (Zambezi people)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Smith, H.G.L.
abstract: label: Summary
content: An album of photographs taken between 1905 and 1907 by H.G.L. Smith or his associates to document his hunting trips in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the accompanying African workers.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 90 Photographic prints ((1 box)., black & white, 7 x 9 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 90 Photographic prints ((dupe prints) (1 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
label: Extent
content: 90 Negatives (photographic) ((dupe negs), black & white, 4 x 5 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1905-1907
container: label: Container
content: Item 90
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased by Deborah Cooney, a former staff member at the National Museum of African Art, from Joe and Carol Lehman of Claymont, Delaware. Donated by Deborah Cooney, 1980.

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.1980-001
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: Photograph albums
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Gelatin silver prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums
label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An album of photographs taken between 1905 and 1907 by H.G.L. Smith or his associates to document his hunting trips in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the accompanying African workers. There are also images of local animals and landscapes. Smith and the other hunters are portrayed in a boat on the Zambezi River, in camps and posing with rifles and killed game. The African workers are portrayed carrying loads and posing with or retrieving dead animals. Other Rhodesians portrayed include policemen shown both on camels and outside a building with an official of European descent on "court day," Tonga people, and a "pioneer" of European descent shown in front of his house. Animals illustrated include cape buffalos, crocodiles, elands, hippopotamuses, impalas, leopards, lions, sable antelopes, wart hogs, wildebeests and zebras.  There is also an image of Victoria Falls.