Captain Alfred Friendly photographs of Africa
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 99-39
name: label: Creator
content: Friendly, Alfred, Captain
place: label: Place
content: Kenya
label: Place
content: Zimbabwe
label: Place
content: South Africa
label: Place
content: Guinea
label: Place
content: Uganda
label: Place
content: Dakar (Senegal)
label: Place
content: Kivu, Lake (Congo and Rwanda)
label: Place
content: Albert, Lake (Congo and Uganda)
label: Place
content: Chivero, Lake (Zimbabwe)
label: Place
content: Rhodes Matopos National Park (Zimbabwe)
label: Place
content: Djenné (Mali)
label: Place
content: Lagos (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Kinshasa (Congo)
label: Place
content: Brazzaville (Congo)
topic: label: Topic
content: Rock paintings
label: Topic
content: Cities and towns
creator: label: Creator
content: Friendly, Alfred, Captain
culture: label: Culture
content: Mbuti (African people)
label: Culture
content: San (African people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Captain Alfred Friendly (1911-1983) graduated from Amherst College in 1933 and began work for the US Department of Commerce. From 1935 to 1936, he traveled around the United States with his friend Chalmers M. Roberts, which he described in a book entitled "The Trek: or, Adventures in Depression America." Friendly was hired as a reporter for the Washington Daily News (later the Washington Post) until World War II, when he served in the Military Intelligence Service. He helped to transform The Washington Post into a national publication while serving as its managing editor (1955-1965). From his retirement as managing editor until 1971, Friendly worked as a roving reporter for the Post and won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for his coverage of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 59 Color negatives
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content: 19 Negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
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content: 293 Color negatives (acetate, 35 mm)
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content: 12 Prints (silver gelatin)
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content: 52 Color prints
label: Extent
content: 20 Color slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Jean Friendly, Alfred's widow, 1999.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.99-39
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color negatives
label: Type
content: Negatives
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content: Prints
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content: Color prints
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content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs by Captain Alfred Friendly depicting rock paintings, people, cities, Kariba Dam, and scenery in Africa. Friendly made the photographs in Nairobi National Park, Nyeri, Kenya; Uganda; Lake Albert; Lake Kivu; Lake McIlwaine (now Lake Chivero); Nswatugi Cave and Silozwane Cave in Matopos National Park, Zimbabwe; Cape Town and Johannesburg, Brotherton, Mushroom Hill, Sigubudu, and Olivier's Hoek, South Africa; Guinea; Dakar, Senegal; Lagos, Nigeria; Djenne, Mali; Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. Some photographs may have been used in Alfred Friendly's illustrated lecture on "Bushman Paintings" at the Freer Gallery of Art in 1961.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Amherst College Archives and Special Collections holds the Alfred Friendly (AC 1933) Papers.