Uganda photographs
place: label: Place
content: Uganda
label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Portrait photography -- Africa
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content: Uganda photographs
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Album was compiled by Christian missionary Amy J. Welsh while working in Iganga, Uganda between 1906 and 1925.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 91 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 11 x 15 cm. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1895 - 1925
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchase, 2000. Conserved through a preservation grant funded by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee, 2006.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2000-005
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by page number.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Captions created by Archives staff with reference to handwritten captions. Some captions were translated into Ganda or Luganda by the album creator.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Front cover of the album is inscribed "Amy J. Welsh, June 19--, Igauga [Iganga], Busoga." Photographs from the Kingdoms of the Interlacustrine area in East Africa. Contains portraits of King Daudi, Four Kings and their Prime Ministers, Sir Apolo Kagwa, Chief Bongo, Reverand B. Musoke, and a Busoga Chief. Images also show relics in a Tutsi tomb, missionary hospital and schools, marketplaces, weddings and other daily life. Additional group and family photographs of Christian missionaries in the region.