John Sebastien Derr photographs
odd: label: General note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
name: label: Collector
content: Derr, John Sebastien
place: label: Place
content: Cameroon
label: Place
content: Africa
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs or collected by Dr. John Sebastien Derr, a member of the Sudan United Mission in Cameroon from 1906-1909. As a missionary he was devoted to converting the people in Cameroon to Christianity and to dispelling Islam. The majority of the slides depict life in Adamawa, northern Cameroon. The images document Islamic and other populations in Cameroon. The individual and group portraits of men, women, and children primarily focus on the lives of the indigenous peoples, though a few pictures of Europeans are included. A Hausa leader is featured among the portraits. 

The Sudan United Mission calendar displaying snapshots of a different missionary with each month. Dr. Derr is featured in January of 1909. Also included in the calendar are a list of officers, five prayers, a list of societies in the Sudan without a missionary and events that relate to the Sudan United Mission. 

Images of musicians, cooks, hunters, and laborers give some sense of village and missionary life. Other scenes reveal Central African terrain. There are two or three views of mountains, sunrise or sunset, and regional vegetation. 

Many images capture architecture, among which are building styles ranging from thatched edifices to colonial buildings and to urban street scenes in colonial Egypt. Maritime activity is exhibited in the shots of various boats used by the African peoples. European seamen and passengers are depicted as well. 

Along with photographs of northern Cameroon, there are several images of life in colonial Egypt.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Lantern slide (color, 8 x 10 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 93 Lantern slides (black & white, 8 x 10 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Folder (calendar (1909) , illustrated, 15 x 24 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1906-1909
container: label: Container
content: Item 94
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Loaned by Robert G. Jullien, 1993.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1993-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides