Igbo Photographic Album
name: label: Collector
content: Connie
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Onitsha (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Awka (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Enugu (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Nigeria
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Purchased in 1996.
culture: label: Culture
content: Igbo (African people)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Igbo Photographic Album
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs compiled in an album by the wife (Connie) of a British official (T. or Tim) who was stationed in Onitsha on the Niger River from 1923 through 1925. Onitsha was the headquarters of the Onitsha Province, which comprised the divisions of Onitsha, Enugu, Obolo, Awgu and Awka. The region is settled by the Igbo peoples. The album contains numerous images of Igbo peoples, as well as pictures of the British and their lifestyles.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Photographic prints (dupe prints (1 v.), black & white, 8 x 10 in. )
label: Extent
content: 192 Photographic prints (silver gelatin (1 album), black & white, 16 x 21 cm. or smaller )
label: Extent
content: 192 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black & white, 4 x 5 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923-1925
container: label: Container
content: Item 192
label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased, 1996. 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.1997-006
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arranged in order of album.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs