Herbert F. Weiss Collection
name: label: Photographer
content: Weiss, Herbert F.
label: Photographer
content: Weiss, Lisa, 1903-1997
label: Photographer
content: Weiss, Richard P., 1898-1980
place: label: Place
content: Sudan
label: Place
content: Belgian Congo
label: Place
content: Nigeria
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Herbert Weiss, 2020.
creator: label: Photographer
content: Weiss, Herbert F.
label: Photographer
content: Weiss, Lisa, 1903-1997
label: Photographer
content: Weiss, Richard P., 1898-1980
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content: Herbert F. Weiss Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Herbert F. Weiss is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY. His research has revolved around nationalism, independence struggles, mass mobilization, protest, democratization, elections, decentralization, and the role of militia. He has also made contributions to African studies with his analysis of "rural radicalism," the radical protest of rurally based populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo as illustrated by the independence struggle (1959-1960), the Congo Rebellions (1963-1968), and from the 1990s to the present, by various rurally based militia groups. Weiss has also consulted with the World Bank, the UN, the US Government, the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum of the Social Science Research Council and other vaious US and international NGOs. He is a member of the African Studies Association since 1961 and a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 

Richard and Lisa Weiss were Jewish refugees to Ango-Egypt and Sudan during World War II. Along with their son, Herbert, they fled Vienna, Austria on July 25, 1938, following the arrival of the Nazis. They lived in a house in Khartoum, next to the Palace of the Mahdi. Lisa was a photographer and worked as a manicurist for English women, which allowed her to get customers for portraits. She took many photographs during her time in Sudan. 

After immigrating with his family to the United States, in 1950, Richard Weiss returned to Africa as a New York-based businessman to buy rubber, gum Arabic, spices, and other imports from Nigeria.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (1 box , B/w, 5 x 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (1 box, B/w , 3 x 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (1 box , B/w Portraits)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940s-1980s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2020-005
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Postcards
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Herbert F. Weiss papers, Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Writings, notes, correspondence, government documents, bulletins and issuances of Congolese political organizations, reports, studies, conference materials, and printed matter relating to nationalism in and independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Parti Solidaire Africain, Patrice Lumumba, civil war and political opposition groups in the Congo, and political conditions elsewhere in Africa. Used in part as research material for the book by H. F. Weiss, Political Protest in the Congo: The Parti Solidaire Africain during the Independence Struggle (Princeton, 1967).
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Collection of b/w photographs by Richard Weiss and historic postcards from Nigeria, Sudan, and Sierra Leone; portrait photographs from Sudan by Lisa Weiss; and 35mm b/w negatives and color slides from the Congo, 1960 by Herbert Weiss.