W. H. Himbury photographs
name: label: Names
content: MacDonald, Claude Maxwell, Sir, 1852-1915
place: label: Place
content: Abeokuta Province (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Lagos (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Africa
culture: label: Culture
content: Ijo (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kalabari (African people)
label: Culture
content: Efik (African people)
label: Culture
content: Anang (African people)
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content: W. H. Himbury photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by unknown photographers in Nigeria and found in an album signed on the front inside cover, "W.H. Himbury, Grosvenor Club, Piccadilly 10." 

Funeral pictures of important African chiefs are prominent within the album and include burial pictures of the family members of the deceased as well as of the belongings of the deceased. Images include views of Lagos and Abeokuta. African peoples include the Anang Ibibio, Kalabari and Efik. 

Images of individuals include British colonial officials and chiefs of the Niger Delta. Prominent among the British officials is Sir Claude Maxwell Macdonald (1852-1915), Governor of the Oil River Protectorate, which, after 1896, was known as the Niger River Protectorate.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 63 Photographic prints (dupe prints (1 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in. )
label: Extent
content: 63 Photographic prints (albumen (1 album), black & white, 18 x 26 cm. or smaller )
label: Extent
content: 63 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black & white, 4 x 5 in. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1897
container: label: Container
content: Item 63
label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchase, 1995. 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.1995-024
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints