Other/Unidentified
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content: Historic Engravings collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 33 Items (Map Case M1 (folders 25-29), 13.5 x 8.5 in. (34.3 x 21.6 cm.) or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1747-circa 1905
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2010-003, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged by accession number.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 4 includes 33 pages of published engravings that date between 1747 and circa 1905.  Engravers and publishers represented include J.V. Scheley, A. Picken, G. Child, T. Kichin, N. Parr, C. Du Bofe, E. Finden, I. Dupuis, Fisher, H. Salt, and Son & Co. (London), among others.   Common settings, activities, and peoples depicted include African royalty, Ashantees, fashions, animals, natural landscapes including bodies of water and mountains, ceremonies, and views of cities and towns.  Images illustrate locales such as Guinea, Gambia, the Island of Bravo, Persia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Ethiopia.