Album 1: Rwanda
name: label: Collection Creator
content: White Fathers
place: label: Place
content: Rwanda
label: Place
content: Tanganyika, Lake
topic: label: Topic
content: Missionaries -- Africa
culture: label: Culture
content: Swahili (African people)
label: Culture
content: Rwandans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Pères Blancs (White Fathers) Photographic Albums
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 78 Gelatin silver prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1903-circa 1921
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1987-010, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Gelatin silver prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 1 is comprised of one album containing 78 silver gelatin prints.  Many of the photographs depict Pères Blancs (White Fathers) missionaries, particularly Roger and Paul Van Hende, Africans enlisted in the European military, and Chief Musinga and his family.  Peoples depicted include Rwandan and Swahili peoples.  There are also a few photographs of Lake Tanganyika, Sultan Kisabuka, and Royal Commissioner Marzonali.  Rwandans are depicted preparing grains and hides, dancing, vaulting, rowing, and digging irrigation canals, among other activities.