John Dean photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Dean, John
place: label: Place
content: Sudan
label: Place
content: Liberia
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Equatorial Guinea
label: Place
content: Sierra Leone
label: Place
content: Omdurman (Sudan)
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
creator: label: Photographer
content: Dean, John
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by John Dean while traveling in the Sudan in 1961 and in Liberia and Sierre Leone in 1962. Scenes include parades, motorcades, guards, formal visits of officials, and both portraits and candids of state dignataries. Dean also photographed portraits of ordinary people in Sudan, including a beauty contest in Monrovia and daily life in a Shilluk village. Photographs also include detailed images of traditional attire, jewelry, hairstyles, body scarification, Blue Nile, architecture, aerial views of major cities and buildings, Omdurman, and the former slave port in Suakin.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: State Department employee.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 296 Slides (photographs) (1 volume, color dye coupler, 35 mm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961-1962
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by John Dean, 1976.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1976-003
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs