Lynn McLaren Photographs
name: label: Creator
content: McLaren, Lynn, 1922-
label: Names
content: UNICEF
place: label: Place
content: Zanzibar
label: Place
content: Africa, East
label: Place
content: Mikumi National Park (Tanzania)
label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Mombasa (Kenya)
label: Place
content: Lamu Island (Kenya)
label: Place
content: Manyara, Lake (Tanzania)
label: Place
content: Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
label: Place
content: India
label: Place
content: Kilimanjaro, Mount (Tanzania)
label: Place
content: Kenya
label: Place
content: Tanzania
label: Place
content: Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
label: Place
content: Victoria, Lake
topic: label: Topic
content: Coffee plantations
label: Topic
content: Animals
label: Topic
content: Sisal (Plant)
label: Topic
content: Sailboats
label: Topic
content: Markets
label: Topic
content: Health education
label: Topic
content: Dhows
label: Topic
content: Cotton
label: Topic
content: Fishers
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
label: Topic
content: Architecture
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lynn McLaren, Bruce McLaren Millar, 6105 Cromwell Drive, Bethesda, MD 20816;, Donation, 20070518, EEPA 2007-0009.
creator: label: Creator
content: McLaren, Lynn, 1922-
culture: label: Culture
content: Zaramo (African people)
label: Culture
content: Swahili (African people)
label: Culture
content: Maasai (African people)
label: Culture
content: Makonde (African people)
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content: Lynn McLaren Photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection consists of 38 color transparencies, 648 color slides and 10 black-and-white photographic prints taken by Lynn McLaren Demarest while on assignment for various news outlets in the 1950s and 1960s. A majority of the slides and transparencies were taken in East Africa and document indigenous peoples, agriculture (cotton in particular), health and nutrition education, UNICEF activities, architecture, natural landscapes, animals, fishers, coffee plantations and the sisal industry. Locations include Mobassa, Lamu Island, Zanzibar, Dar es Saalam, Lake Victoria, Mount Kilimajaro, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Mikumi National Park (Tanzania). The black-and-white photographs depict East African leaders, such as Julius Nyerere, and prominent international visitors to the region, including Robert Kennedy. A small number of slides and transparencies were taken in India.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Lynn McLaren (1922-2008) was a professional photojournalist who worked on assignment for National Geographic, Life, Newsweek and Business Week since the 1950s and 1960s. A member of the Society of Women Geographers, McLaren lived and traveled extensively around the world, photographing peoples and places in Kenya, Tanzania (Zanzibar), India, Nepal, Spain, Germany and the United States. McLaren was also the author of five books, including Berlin and the Berliners and The Village: The People (India), all of which are richly illustrated with her photographs. In 2007, she had a major retrospective of her photography, Fifty Years of Photographs from Around the World, at the Marion Art Center in Marion, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 648 Slides (photographs) (color , 35mm.)
label: Extent
content: 10 Photographic prints (black and white , 8 x 10 inches.)
label: Extent
content: 38 Transparencies (Color, medium format film)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950-1969
container: label: Container
content: Item EEPA.2007-009
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Lynn McLaren, 2007.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2007-009
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Transparencies
label: Type
content: Portraits
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arrangement reflects the original order established by the photographer.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Portraits
label: Genre/Form
content: Color slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Transparencies
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs