David L. Watts collection
name: label: Creator
content: Watts, Hazel Bivens
label: Collector
content: Watts, David Luell
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
creator: label: Creator
content: Watts, Hazel Bivens
culture: label: Culture
content: Nkundu (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken and postcards collected by David L. and Hazel B. Watts during their work as missionaries with the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission among the Nkundu people in the Congo during the 1920s and 1930s. Images depicted on the postcards were taken by commercial photographers. Magazines collected by David L. and Hazel B. Watts and published by the United Christian Missionary Society in Indianapolis, Indiana, entitled, "Congo Portfolio," issues No. 1 through X, circa 1952. The magazines describe the efforts of the missionary society in the Congo during the first half of the 19th century.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Folder ((1 file))
label: Extent
content: 9 Issues (object groupings) (illustrated, 26 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 25 Postcards (black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 2 Photographic prints (black & white, 11 x 16 cm. or smaller.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Volume
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1922-1952
label: Date
content: bulk 1922-1938
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by David and Hazel Watts, 1984.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1984-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Issues (object groupings)
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Color slides
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides