Casimir Zagourski photographs
place: label: Place
content: Africa
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content: Senegal
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content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
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content: South Africa
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content: Casimir Zagourski photographs
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), Congo, 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".
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content: 120 Postcards ((silver gelatin prints), black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
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content: 3 Photographic prints ((silver gelatin), black & white, 26.5 x 19.7 cm. or smaller)
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content: 3 Drawings (visual works) (black & white, 29.8 x 22.7 cm. or smaller)
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content: between 1924-1935
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased, 2002.
The photographic materials were brought to the U.S.A. in the late 1940s with the widow of Victor Ghislain Pilet, who had worked in the Belgian Congo during the late 1930s. In 1939, he received an honorable mention (Decoration Industrielle de 2ème classe) for his services in the Congo. The widow, since married and widowed again, lives in the Cape. There are also nine wooden display frames adorned with carved animal tusks, though not of elephant ivory, produced in a workshop somewhere in the Congo.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2002-005
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Postcards
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content: Photographic prints
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content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Drawings
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content: Picture postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: postcards:organized in one volume and arranged numerically by original postcard number

prints:organized in one box

frames:organized in nine boxes
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
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content: Drawings
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content: Picture postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The photographs belong to the series of 417 images, entitled "L'Afrique qui disparaît", which Casimir Zagourski (1883-1944), a Polish photographer who lived in Léopoldville, created in the years between 1924 and 1935. He edited the series in different forms. One of the postcards includes a mistake in the captioning which could occur in the printing process. There are three larger unique silver gelatin prints. These images and several postcards were framed in the display frames. The three pen and ink drawings by are signed "Henry," and were framed.