Album 2: Rwanda
name: label: Collection Creator
content: White Fathers
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content: Pères Blancs (White Fathers) Photographic Albums
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 59 Gelatin silver prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1903-circa 1924
container: label: Container
content: Box 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1987-010, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Gelatin silver prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 2 is comprised of 1 album consisting of 59 silver gelatin prints. Many of the photographs depict Peres Blancs (White Fathers) missionaries and Rwandan peoples involved in agricultural, blacksmithing, cattle herding, and hunting activities. Individuals photographed in this series include Chief Musinga and his family and Mrs. Van Hende. Locations of these photographs in Rwanda include Bugoye, Ruasa, Nyundo, Rulinda, Batussi, and Nyansa. Specific sites include the Ruisi Plains, Niragongo volcano and crater, and mount Kulinda. Lakes Kivu, Mohasi, Rukondo and Mulera are also documented in this series along with both the Luvyrionza and Ruvuvu rivers. The three missions documented in this series include the Kabgaye mission, the Tsavi mission, and the Boinga mission.