C.B. MacCloskey photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: MacCloskey, C.B. Captain
place: label: Place
content: Accra (Ghana)
label: Place
content: Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: MacCloskey, C.B. Captain
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Captain C.B. MacCloskey while serving as a public relations officer with Colonel A.B. McMullen at the Air Transport Command in Accra, Ghana. Images document Africans in the Akan chiefdom of Akim near Accra, Ghana, in 1943. Activities shown include dancing and drum playing, as well as the funeral of the king of Akim and funerary dances. Also included is an image of an effigy of the deceased king. People depicted include Africans in Western dress and uniforms and U.S. soldiers.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30 Photographic prints ((1 v.), black & white, 5 x 7 in. or smaller.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Mrs. Douglas Griffith Lindsey, a relative of C.B. MacCoskey, 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1991-004
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 negative number.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints