Mozambique Trading Company photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Machado, Soura (photographer)
label: Photographer
content: Andrade e Serrano, Freire d'
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Mozambique
label: Place
content: Africa, Eastern
creator: label: Photographer
content: Machado, Soura (photographer)
label: Photographer
content: Andrade e Serrano, Freire d'
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Freire d'Andrade e Serrano and Soura Machado in Mozambique for Carta Agricolo-Silva Imp. (Agricultural Charter-Silver Importers), circa 1888. The photographs were collected by the trading company to document its activities and the conditions in Mozambique.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Established on February 11, 1891, the Mozambique Company (Portuguese: Companhia de Moçambique) was a royal company operating in Portuguese Mozambique that had the concession of the lands in the Portuguese colony corresponding to the present provinces of Manica and Sofala in central Mozambique.  It's headquarters were in Beira, Portugese Mozambique.

The company dissolved in 1972.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 36 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 4 x 5 in. )
label: Extent
content: 36 Photographic prints ((2 portfolio boxes), black & white, 16 x 22 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 36 Photographic prints ((1 volume), black & white, 8 x 10 in. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1888
container: label: Container
content: Item 36
label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Box 2
label: Container
content: Item 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1988-009
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs taken by Freire d'Andrade e Serrano and Soura Machado in Mozambique for Carta Agricolo-Silva Imp. (Agricultural Charter-Silver Importers), circa 1888. The photographs were collected by the trading company to document its activities and the conditions in Mozambique. Images include forts, government buildings, markets and villages. Activities depicted include roof construction, farming and using a mortar and pestle. There are also portraits of agricultural workers shown with cattle and a wagon, a cook with his helpers, and government officials. Images include scenes from Quelimane, Mandora, Xueva, Caia, Gouvex and Sarmento.