![]() ![]() They were among the first recordings made of the sounds of the central Congo. Audio (requires sound card, headset or speakers) and video clips of the Belgian Congo Records made by the "adventurer and filmmaker Armand Denis during his 1934-35 cross-Africa expedition.Historic maps reflecting the "development of European knowledge of African geography from 1562 through 1940." Reproduced with permission of the New York Public Library and the British Library.Select which features will appear on the map: lakes, cities, roads, railroads, forest, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, etc., a map of Chapin and Lang's travels. "160 publications including 120 American Museum of Natural History publications based on the material collected by the 1909-1915 Congo Expedition, 12 British Museum publications by Barry Bolton on Congo ants, 11 publications on African ants by the South African Museum and affiliated organizations, and 17 Congo-related World Conservation Union (IUCN) publications.".Keim (AMNH and University of Washington Press, 1990) including their photographs of Congo musical instruments. excerpts from " African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire," by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A.Niographies of James Paul Chapin and Herbert Lang, photographs (villages, primates), the watercolors of James Chapin including Congo mural paintings, birds, fish, reptiles, mammels,.Birds, however, were his passion, a fact borne out by these diaries.") Chapin was interested in many aspects of Africa's natural history. ("At age 19, in 1909, James Chapin left New York for northeastern Congo where he served as Herbert Lang's assistant for the next five years. An introductory, multimedia slide show."In 1909.Herbert Lang and James Chapin set sail for the Belgian Congo.By the time they sailed home five and one-half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens." Congo Expedition, May 1909-November 1915 Photograph prices range from c US $13 for personal use to c $184 and more for a marketing package. Licenses use of their photographs and videos. The photographs are deposited in the African Studies Library, Leiden, The Netherlands. 750 of the 1,250 photographs are online these can be freely used per Creative Commons license. Topics - Daily life, Dance and parties, Hospitals, Medical images, PAIGC soldiers and weapons, People's shops, Schools, Ziguinchor (Senegal) hospital, Cuban medical personnel, Guinea-Bissau's first President Luis Cabral and its first Prime Minister Francisco Mendes. who worked in the liberated areas of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal in 19, during the final year of the war of independence waged by the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde). "Collections include 'anthropological' photos from Sierra Leone in the 1930s by Professor Sjoerd Hofstra popular because of the Poro connection, and photographs by Roel Coutinho (Senegal and Guinea Bissau in the 1970s), containing rare images of the liberation movement in the field and photos of the first president and prime-minister of Guinea Bissau." Īfrican Studies Library, Leiden, The Netherlands - Guinea-Bissau and Senegal 1973-1974 (Coutinho Collection) Īfrican Studies Centre Library, Leidan, Netherland Africa Through a Lens is part of the National Archives' World Through a Lens collection. Maintained by the United Kingdom, National Archives. Users can add comments on the photographs. Holdings from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection housed in the National Archives. Photographs from 1860s to present covering from the Scramble for Africa, the colonial era, and the era of independence. ![]() ![]() "a website initiated in 2015 by photographer and (photo) historian Ben Krewinkel"Įarly albums - 19th and early 20th Century photographic albumsĪfrica through a lens: The National Archives - United Kingdom Historical websites may contain photographs. Sites with photograph or graphic resources are listed below. ![]()
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