Photographs
odd: label: General
content: Photographs from this series were published in the Boston Herald on July 31, 1933, and in the Crown Colonist in August, 1933.
name: label: Photographer
content: Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965
label: Collection Photographer
content: Patterson, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, 1905-2002
creator: label: Photographer
content: Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965
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content: M. Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 113 Photographic prints (silver gelatin and copy, black and white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 3 Photographs (color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1932, 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 1 includes 113 black and white photographic prints taken by M. Marvin Breckinridge Patterson during her trip with Olivia Stokes Hatch from Capetown, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt in 1932; and 3 color photographic prints taken in 1971 of mbira, pipes, and a sculpture. 

The photographs document the peoples of Africa in Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), Uganda, Congo (Democratic Republic) and Zanzibar, including the Baila, San, Shona, Xhosa and Zulu peoples.  Subjects include a bride and groom at Lovedale, South Africa; dancers at the Crown Mine near Johannesburg, South Africa; flower vendors in Cape Town, South Africa; two leading elders at Amanzimtoti, South Africa; a craftsman making spears; a tanner in the Sudan; miners with their wives in Katanga (now Shaba), Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo); schoolboys in the Sudan; a Shona man; women lining-up to receive rations in the Belgian Congo; workers pouring gold at the Crown Mine near Johannesburg, South Africa; and a Zulu woman at a market in Durban, Natal, South Africa. 

Depicted architecture includes the Queen Hatshepsut's room at Karnak, Luxor, Egypt; and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Images of the natural world include a mountain at Cape Town, South Africa; a park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; and Victoria Falls, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Additionally, there are numerous images of animals, including egrets, ostriches and wildebeests.