Jacob and Eleanor Reis photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Reis, Jacob A.
label: Creator
content: Reis, Eleanor Nicely, Mrs.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Cameroon
creator: label: Photographer
content: Reis, Jacob A.
label: Creator
content: Reis, Eleanor Nicely, Mrs.
culture: label: Culture
content: Bassa (Cameroon people)
label: Culture
content: Bassa (Liberian and Sierra Leone people)
label: Culture
content: Ntumu (African people)
label: Culture
content: Bulu (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Jacob Anthony Reis to document his experiences in Southern Cameroon while serving as a Presbyterian missionary from 1909 to 1945. The photographs document the life and peoples at Jacob A. Reis's mission stations, especially in and near Efulen, Cameroon, in the early 20th Century. African peoples pictured include the Bassa, Bulu and Ntumu. Structures depicted include churches, a dispensary, a fishing hut, a saw mill, school buildings such as a Baptist girls' school in Doulal and thatched roof buildings. Also included are African ritual objects collected by the mission and a photographic reproduction of a handwritten statistical list of bible readers, communicants, preachers and students.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Jacob A. Reis, 1883-1945, Presbyterian missionary; graduated from Wooster College; attended Bloomfield Theological Seminary and ordained in 1908; joined the Presbyterian Church's mission in Cameroon in 1909; returned to the United States to complete his studies at the Western Theological Seminary in 1912; traveled back to Africa and served until his death in 1945.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 174 Transparencies (dupe trans, black & white, 6 x 9 cm. )
label: Extent
content: 96 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black & white, 8 x 11 cm. )
label: Extent
content: 96 Transparencies (dupe trans, black & white, 8 x 11 cm. )
label: Extent
content: 24 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black & white, 9 x 11 cm. or smaller )
label: Extent
content: 110 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 9 x 11 cm. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 129 Lantern slides (silver gelatin, black & white, 6 x 9 cm. )
label: Extent
content: 3 Volumes (copy prints, black & white, 8 x 10 in. )
label: Extent
content: 2 Volumes (contact prints, black & white, 9 x 11 cm. )
label: Extent
content: 174 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black & white, 6 x 9 cm. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1910-1920
container: label: Container
content: Item 129
label: Container
content: Item 174
label: Container
content: Item 174
label: Container
content: Item 96
label: Container
content: Item 96
label: Container
content: Item 24
label: Container
content: Item 110
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Eleanor R. Henry, daughter of Jacob A. and Eleanor N. Reis, 1985.

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.1985-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Transparencies
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Black-and-white negatives
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Transparencies
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white negatives