Evan G. Schneider Collection
name: label: Photographer
content: Schneider, Gilbert, 1920-1999
label: Photographer
content: Schneider, Evan G., (1949 - )
label: Creator
content: Schneider, Mildred, (1920 - 2016)
label: Creator
content: Mbeng, Johnson
place: label: Place
content: Cameroon
label: Place
content: Algeria
label: Place
content: Kenya
label: Place
content: Sahara
label: Place
content: Niger
topic: label: Topic
content: Missionaries -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Missions to leprosy patients
label: Topic
content: Afo-A-Kom (Statue)
label: Topic
content: Mambila (African people)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Schneider, Gilbert, 1920-1999
label: Photographer
content: Schneider, Evan G., (1949 - )
label: Creator
content: Schneider, Mildred, (1920 - 2016)
label: Creator
content: Mbeng, Johnson
culture: label: Culture
content: Kom (African people)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Evan G. Schneider Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gilbert Schneider (1920-1999) and his wife Mildred Voth (1920-2016) were missionaries to Cameroon between 1945 and 1961. Sponsored by the North American Baptist Commission, they moved to the Mambilla region of Cameroon, and helped build and manage the New Hope Settlement, a hospital for leprosy patients in Mbingo. While abroad, the Schneiders had two children, Evan Schneider and Linda Schneider. 

Evan Schneider was born in Cameroon in 1949. He grew up amid the Kom Kingdom in Mbingo, before the family returned to the United States in 1961. They moved to Ohio in 1963, where Gilbert began graduate studies and Mildred worked as a registered nurse.  In 1985, Evan received a master's degree in Visual Anthropology at Oregon State University and went on to be a professional photographer. After his father's death in 1999, he returned to Mbingo to establish a memorial fund to benefit the New Hope Settlement and construct the Schneider Memorial Vocational Rehabilitation Center. Currently, Schneider lives in Oregon and is the Chief Photographer at the Oregon Historical Society.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12085 Slides (photographs) (35 mm)
label: Extent
content: 6546 Negatives (photographic)
label: Extent
content: 672 Transparencies
label: Extent
content: 5 Reels (silent, 16mm)
label: Extent
content: 54 Gelatin silver prints (8 x 10 in, 5 x 7 in, 11 x 14 in)
label: Extent
content: 161 Documents
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2020-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Transparencies
label: Type
content: Reels
label: Type
content: Gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: Documents
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Collection contains negatives, slides, and color transparencies taken by Evan Schneider or his father Gilbert in Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, Algeria, Kenya, Tanzania, and the Sahara, from 1947 to 1999. Also contains vintage silver prints, 16 mm film, CDs, manuscripts, letters, writings, articles (self-published and other) relating to the Schneider's missionary work in the Mambilla region of Cameroon. Some materials relate to the Afo-A-Kom return in 1973.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Gilbert Schneider and Mildred Schneider family papers, 1911-2016 (Coll 570), are held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.