Emile Gorlia photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Gorlia, Emile E.O.
label: Donor
content: Gorlia-Harris, Jacquelyne Eve
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Brazzaville (Congo)
label: Place
content: Matadi (Congo)
label: Place
content: Tanganyika, Lake
label: Place
content: Kalemie (Congo)
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Lusambo (Congo)
label: Place
content: Kinshasa (Congo)
topic: label: Topic
content: Congo -- Description and Travel -- 1881-1950
label: Topic
content: Congo -- History -- 1908-1960
creator: label: Photographer
content: Gorlia, Emile E.O.
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content: Emile Gorlia photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by Judge Emile E.O. Gorlia during five journeys through the Belgian Congo and two vacation leaves, one in Belgium and one in the Canaries Islands, 1909-1928 and at the World Exposition in Brussels (1958).  The collection dates from 1909-1958.

His first mission was from January 1910 to January 1912; the second, from February 1915 to March 1917; the third, from December 1917 to April 1920; the fourth, from November 1920 to February 1923 and, the fifth, from March 1926 to December 1928. For his first four missions at Lusambo in the Kasai province, district of Sankuru, Emile Gorlia was acting as an alternate to the public officer at one of the seven tribunals of first instance. During his fifth and final mission, he was promoted as president of the Court at Albertville in the ditrict of Katanga. 

Judge E.O. Gorlia was a keen amateur photographer with the advantage of not only traveling extensively around the state but also with the privilege of being able to afford the time and money to produce a prolific number of images. His images illustrate with great detail the full experience of a government official in mission in the Belgian Congo, starting in Antwerp at the pier of this Belgian harbor and taking up his duties at Lusambo, an administrative town in the hearth of th Belgian congo. The majority of images are of the following Belgian Congo districts, Lower Congo, Kassai, Sankuru, and Katanga. They include the cities of Banana, Boma, Matadi, Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), Lusambo, Luebo, Dilolo, Albertville (now Kalemie) in the Belgian Congo, Brazzaville in the French Equatorial africa, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Tabora and Kigoma in tanganyika, Dakar in Senegal, Conakry in Guinea, Freetown in Sierra Leone, Port Said in Egypt and finally Casablanca in Morocco. There are also images of villages scenes and portraits of the Tetela, Songye, Luba, Kanioka, Lunda, Chokwe, Pende, Bangala and Kuba. 

Also included are images of the natural environment as the Congo river, the Kasai and Sankuru rivers, the banks of Lake Tanganyika and the savanna-woodland of the western part of the Katanga district as well as as the south part of the Sankuru region.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 258 Negatives (photographic) (black & white, 8 x 10.5 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 308 Lantern slides (black & white, 8.5 x 10 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1,446 Photographic prints ((contact prints) (5 vols.), black & white, 6 x 13 cm. or smaller )
label: Extent
content: 46 Photographic prints (black & white, 48 x 58 cm. or smaller.)
label: Extent
content: 556 Negatives (photographic) (glass plate stereographic negatives , black & white, 6 x 13 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1909-1958
label: Date
content: bulk 1909-1928
container: label: Container
content: Item 1, Drawer B1-5 through B1-7
label: Container
content: Disk 1
label: Container
content: Item 1, Drawer B8-3
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Collection donated by Sanford M. Harris, 1977, on behalf Jacquelyne Eve Gorlia-Harris who had inherited it from her father, Emile Gorlia.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1977-001
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Stereographs
label: Type
content: Glass negatives
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arranged chronologically by trip.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Stereographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Glass negatives