Wyatt MacGaffey photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: MacGaffey, Wyatt
place: label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Church buildings
label: Topic
content: Architecture
creator: label: Photographer
content: MacGaffey, Wyatt
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content: Wyatt MacGaffey photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs by Wyatt MacGaffey, a prominent anthropologist with a lifelong scholarly interest in the Congo, taken during a survey on Belgian colonial architecture for a research project in Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville) in 1980. His images of the often dilapidated buildings range from colonial mansions to views of African housing. Other photographs show small private homes and businesses as well as a mosque under construction by the Saudis and several churches. There are also many street scenes, images of the university and the Congo River. A series of five slides shows popular paintings (such as La Colonie Belge). 

The value of his images is enhanced by his notes, which record subjects and locations.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 103 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 35 mm.)
label: Extent
content: 93 Prints (visual works) (black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 75 Slides (photographs) (color)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2003-004
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Prints (visual works)
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Black-and-white negatives
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: color slides organized in one volume
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white negatives