Casimir Zagourski photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Zagourski, Casimir
place: label: Place
content: Kinshasa (Congo)
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
creator: label: Photographer
content: Zagourski, Casimir
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content: Casimir Zagourski photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection includes (6) 4 x 5 copy negatives, 375 postcards, 437 copy prints and 4 contact sheets.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Casimir d'Ostoja Zagourski (1880-1941) was a Polish nobleman and professional studio photographer who had maintained a studio in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa in Zaire) between the World Wars.  He travelled across the Belgian Congo, Rwanda-Burundi Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda and French Equatorial Afrique in 1926 to take photographs for his collective photo album "L'Afrique Qui Disparait".
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negatives, black & white, 4 x 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 375 Postcards (1 volume, black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 437 Photographic prints (12 folders, copy prints; black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller )
label: Extent
content: 4 Contact sheets
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1925
container: label: Container
content: Item 6
label: Container
content: Box 3
label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Postcards were purchased by the Smithsonian Libraries from Lewis Lehr, New York photography dealer, February 1986.  

Prints received from Indiana University through Professor Roy Sieber, 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1987-024
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Contact sheets
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Type
content: Negatives
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arranged in order as published in Zagourski's photo album, "L'Afrique Qui Disparait". .
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Inventory available.  Not all of the postcards have associated copy prints.

Processed by Eden Orelove, 2018.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Copy prints are located offsite at Iron Mountain (box 97464371).
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Negatives
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints