Boy Shining Shoes
odd: label: Local Note
content: Original Constance Stuart Larrabee Number: 43
label: Local Note
content: Contact Sheet Number: no number (extra duplicate copy)
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: South Africa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection
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content: Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / Alan Paton, Natal, South Africa
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print ((dupe print)., b&w, 8 x 10 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1949
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-060062
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Boy Shining Shoes, Natal. The African boy is standing behind a small table with one shoe on it and a shoeshine container. He is polishing the other shoe in his hand. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, Feb. 1949.
label: Scope and Contents
content: This photograph was taken when Constance Stuart was on assignment for Harper's Bazaar, an American magazine. Her task was to create a portfolio inspired by the seminal book "Cry, The Beloved Country," which had brought the conditions in South Africa to the attention of the world. The author of the book was the South African writer Alan Paton (1903-1988). It was published in the United States in 1948. Alan Paton accompanied her on the assignment. In June 1949, Harper's Bazaar published an essay by Alan Paton entitled "A Letter from South Africa in which Alan Paton Guides you to his Corner of the 'Beloved Country'." Six photographs by Constance Stuart accompany the essay.
label: Scope and Contents
content: There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.