INVENTORY OF THE ACHAC COLLECTION, 1880-ca. 1975

Series I. Postcards, ca. 1900-ca. 1957

Physical Description: 2,291 postcards

Scope and Content Note

Series I contains a wide range of images of people, places, events and activities pertaining to the former French colonies of Africa, to the French military, and to the colonial expositions held in France. The series features postcards from a multitude of publishers, based in cities throughout France and its colonies; most predominantly represented are Editions artistiques ADIA, Nice; Braun et compagnie, Paris; CAP (Compagnie alsacienne des arts photomécaniques), Strasbourg; La Cigogne, Algiers and Casablanca; CIM (Combier imprimeur Mâcon); Collection idéale PS; Flandrin, Casablanca; Fortier, Dakar; J. [Jean] Geiser, Algiers; Edition Jomone, Algiers; LL (Lévy, fils et compagnie), Paris ; ND (Neurdein frères), Paris; and Lévy et Neurdein réunis, Paris. Many of the postcards have been used for correspondence, almost universally in French, at times with insights into the subjects depicted on the postcards as well as into the lives of colonists. Cross-reference cards have been included at the ends of certain files, to assist the researcher in locating related images.

Arrangement

The series is arranged into nine subseries: Series I.A. Geographic divisions: Cities and sites; Series I.B. Geographic divisions: North Africa; Series I.C. Geographic divisions: Subsaharan Africa; Series I.D. Geographic divisions: Other; Series I.E. Subject divisions: Expositions, 1900-1931; Series I.F. Subject divisions: Foodstuffs; Series I.G. Subject divisions: Military and conquest; Series I.H. Subject divisions: Occupations and People.

Series I.A. Geographic divisions: Cities and sites, n.d.

Physical Description: 506 postcards

Scope and Content Note

These postcards show the buildings, monuments, streets, landscapes and environs of the following cities and regions.

Arrangement

The postcards are arranged alphabetically, first by country and then by city or region.

Box 1, Folder 1-29

Algeria

Box 1, Folder 1

Aïn Sefra

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 2

Alger [Algiers]

Physical Description: 58 postcards

Box 1, Folder 3

Aurès Mountains

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 1, Folder 4

Biskra

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 1, Folder 5

Blida

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 1, Folder 6

Bône [Annaba]

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 1, Folder 7

Bordj-bou-Arréridj

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 8

Bou Denib

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 9

Colomb-Béchar [Bechar]

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 1, Folder 10

Constantine

Physical Description: 15 postcards

Box 1, Folder 11

Dellys

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 12

El Goléa

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 13

Hammam-R'hira

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 14

In Salah

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 15

Laghouat

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 16

Mascara

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 17

Mostaganem

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 1, Folder 18

Mustapha

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 19

Mzab (Ghardaïa, Beni Isguen)

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 1, Folder 20

Oran

Physical Description: 15 postcards

Box 1, Folder 21

Philippeville [Skikda]

Physical Description: 11 postcards

Box 1, Folder 22

Relizane

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 23

Sidi Bel Abbès

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 24

Tamanrasset

Physical Description: 1 postcards

Box 1, Folder 25

Tebessa

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 26

Tidikelt

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 27

Tijdit

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 28

Tipaza [Tipasa]

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 29

Tlemcen

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 30

Cameroun [Cameroon]

Box 1, Folder 30

Douala

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 31-32

Congo Belge [Congo (Democratic Republic)]

Box 1, Folder 31

Boma

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 32

Léopoldville [Kinshasa]

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 33-34

Congo Français [Congo (Brazzaville)]

Box 1, Folder 33

Bonga

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 34

Talagouga

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 35

Côte d'Ivoire

Box 1, Folder 35

Bingerville

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 36

Djibouti

Box 1, Folder 36

Djibouti

Physical Description: 13 postcards

Box 1, Folder 37

Ethiopia

Box 1, Folder 37-38

Dirré-Daoua [Dire Dawa]

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 1, Folder 38

Harar [Harer]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 39-42

Guinea

Box 1, Folder 39

Conakry

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 1, Folder 40

Dabola

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 41

Kindia

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 42

Toumanéa

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 43

Kenya

Box 1, Folder 43

Mombasa

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 1, Folder 44-48

Madagascar

Box 1, Folder 44

Diégo Suarez [Antsiranana]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 45

Majunga

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 46

Nossi Bé [Nosy Bé]

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 1, Folder 47

Tanambao

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 48

Tananarive [Antananarivo]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 49-52

Mali [Soudan]

Box 1, Folder 49

Bamako

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 50

Djenné

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 51

Gao

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 52

Macina

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1 , Folder 53

Mauritania

Box 1, Folder 53

Port Etienne [Nouadhibou]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 54-74

Morocco

Box 1, Folder 54

Aït Bouzid

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 55

Azemmour

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 56

Casablanca

Physical Description: 30 postcards

Box 1, Folder 57

Fez [Fès]

Physical Description: 76 postcards

Box 1, Folder 58

Figuig

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 59

High Atlas Mountains

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 60

Marrakech

Physical Description: 19 postcards

Scope and Content Note

One postcard features a foldout of Marrakech scenes.

Box 1, Folder 61

Meknès

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 62

Mogador [Essaouira]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 63

Moulay Idriss

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Scope and Content Note

The holy city of Moulay Idriss; not be confused with the shrine of Moulay Idriss, located in Fès.

Box 1, Folder 64

Oudjda [Oujda]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 65

Ouezzan

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 66

Rabat

Physical Description: 16 postcards

Box 1, Folder 67

Safi

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Scope and Content Note

Contains panorama views of the Moussem festival.

Box 1, Folder 68

Salé

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 1, Folder 69

Tanger [Tangier]

Physical Description: 12 postcards

Box 1, Folder 70

Taourirt

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 71

Taroudant [Taroudannt]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 72

Taza

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 1, Folder 73

Teroual

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 74

Tétuan [Tétouan]

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 75-80

Senegal

Box 1, Folder 75

Dakar

Physical Description: 18 postcards

Box 1, Folder 76

Gorée

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 1, Folder 77

Nianing

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 78

Rufisque

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 1, Folder 79

Saint-Louis

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 1, Folder 80

Ziguinchor

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 1-15

Tunisia

Box 2, Folder 1

Béja [Bajah]

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 2

Bizerte

Physical Description: 14 postcards

Box 2, Folder 3

Bugeaud

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 4

El Djem [El Jem]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 2, Folder 5

El Kef, Le Kef

Physical Description: 12 postcards

Box 2, Folder 6

Ferryville [Manzil Bu Ruqaybah] [Menzel Bourguiba]

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 2, Folder 7

Gabès

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 2, Folder 8

Kairouan

Physical Description: 17 postcards

Box 2, Folder 9

La Goulette

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 10

Nabeul

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 11

Sakiet

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 12

Sfax [Safaqis]

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 2, Folder 13

Sousse [Susah]

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 2, Folder 14

Tindja

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 15

Tunis

Physical Description: 19 postcards

Box 2, Folder 16

Zanzibar

Box 2, Folder 16

Zanzibar

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Series I.B. Geographic divisions: North Africa, n.d.

Physical Description: 172 postcards

Scope and Content Note

These postcards show North African scenes grouped by topic, activity or material depicted, and not by place.

Box 2, Folder 17

Baptismal processions

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 2, Folder 18

Cemeteries

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Box 2, Folder 19

Cork postcards

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 2, Folder 20

Fantasia (Arab cavalcade)

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Scope and Content Note

[See also Series IV: Advertisements, Hippodrome for another view of a fantasia, and Series V, Box 5, Folder 77 for a ticket to a fantasia held during the Paris 1931 Colonial Exposition.]

Box 2, Folder 21

Feast days

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 2, Folder 22

Huts

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 2, Folder 23

Marketplaces

Physical Description: 33 postcards

Box 2, Folder 24

Marriages

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 2, Folder 25

Oases

Physical Description: 10 postcards

Box 2, Folder 26

Prayer

Physical Description: 41 postcards

Box 2, Folder 27

River scenes

Physical Description: 20 postcards

Box 2, Folder 28

Stores

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Box 2, Folder 29

Swings

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 2, Folder 30

Views, miscellaneous or unidentified

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 2, Folder 31

Villages

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 2, Folder 32

Wells

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Series I.C. Geographic divisions: Subsaharan Africa, n.d.

Physical Description: 134 postcards

Scope and Content Note

These postcards show Subsaharan African scenes grouped by topic, activity or material depicted, and not by place.

Box 2, Folder 33

Boats, ports & wharves

Physical Description: 26 postcards

Box 2, Folder 34

Bridges, roads & trains

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 2, Folder 35

Canoes & canoeing

Physical Description: 19 postcards

Box 2, Folder 36

Dancing

Physical Description: 11 postcards

Box 2, Folder 37

Landscapes

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Scope and Content Note

The postcards labeled Camp d'Ambre show scenes of Madagascar; the country is not identified on the cards.

Box 2, Folder 38

Marketplaces

Physical Description: 21 postcards

Box 2, Folder 39

Marriages

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 2, Folder 40

Mud architecture (Mosque)

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 41

Swings

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 2, Folder 42

Traditional religion

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 2, Folder 43

Villages, miscellaneous or unidentifed

Physical Description: 14 postcards

Box 2, Folder 44

Wells

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 2, Folder 45

Work scenes

Physical Description: 16 postcards

Series I.D. Geographic divisions: Other, n.d.

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Scope and Content Note

These postcards show views and people from locations outside Africa, namely Saint-Laurent du Maroni (French Guiana); Guadeloupe; Laos; Martinique; Réunion; Romania (showing a nun weaving); and Syria.

Box 2, Folder 46

Other locations

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Series I.E. Subject divisions: Expositions, 1900-1931

Physical Description: 143 postcards

Scope and Content Note

These postcards offer views of colonial and other expositions. Most of the cards, such as those of the Marseille and Paris Colonial expositions, concentrate on pavilions and buildings within the expositions, though some cards depict art works or feature other promotional images.

Box 2, Folder 47

Exposition universelle de Paris, 1900

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 2, Folder 48

Algérie-Tunisie, 1903 ( Chocolat du Négrillon)

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 2, Folder 49

Marseille, Exposition coloniale, 1906

Physical Description: 37 postcards

Scope and Content Note

Note: Some of these postcards are undated, and may in fact belong to the 1922 Marseille Exposition.

Box 2, Folder 50

Salon, 1914

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 2, Folder 51

Marseille, Exposition coloniale, 1922

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 2, Folder 52

Exposition des arts décoratifs, 1925

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 3, Folder 1

Exposition coloniale internationale, Paris, 1931

Physical Description: 92 postcards

Series I.F. Subject divisions: Foodstuffs, n.d.

Physical Description: 43 postcards

Scope and Content Note

These postcards depict the harvesting, preparation, transport and sale of various foodstuffs.

Box 3, Folder 2

Beans

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 3, Folder 3

Bread

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 3, Folder 4

Dates

Physical Description: 10 postcards

Box 3, Folder 5

Fish

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 3, Folder 6

Fruits & vegetables

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 3, Folder 7

Grain

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 3, Folder 8

Meat & cattle

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 3, Folder 9

Olives & oil

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 3, Folder 10

Salt

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Series I.G. Subject divisions: Military and conquest, n.d.

Physical Description: 296 postcards

Scope and Content Note

These postcards depict military images relating to the European conquest of and rule over the African colonies. They include images of the "Tirailleur" regiments, composed of soldiers indigenous to the colonies who were inducted into the French army, as well as colonial troops of European origin stationed in Africa. Some postcards depict the participation of the African "Tirailleur" regiments in Europe during World War I. For views of indigenous troops within French-sponsored army units, see the Tirailleurs files below. For images of traditional fighters, see People - North Africa - Warriors, or People - Subsaharan Africa - Warriors.

Box 3, Folder 11

Algeria

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Box 3, Folder 12

Congo Belge [Congo (Democratic Republic)]

Physical Description: 15 postcards

Box 3, Folder 13

Congo Belge [Congo (Democratic Republic)], Boma, Honor Guard, 1919

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 3, Folder 14

Congo Français [Congo (Brazzaville)]

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 3, Folder 15

Côte d'Ivoire

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 3, Folder 16

Dahomey [Benin]

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 3, Folder 17

Djibouti

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 3, Folder 18

[Ghana] Côte d'Or

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 3, Folder 19

Guinea-Bissau, 1908

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 3, Folder 20

Liberia

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 3, Folder 21

Madagascar

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 3, Folder 22

Morocco

Physical Description: 39 postcards

Box 3, Folder 23

Senegal, Dakar, 14 July Celebration, 1905

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 3, Folder 24

Tirailleurs, informal or unidentified shots

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 3, Folder 25

Tirailleurs, lithographs and offset lithographs

Physical Description: 20 postcards

Box 3, Folder 26

Tirailleurs, racist images

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 3, Folder 27

Tirailleurs, portrait shots

Physical Description: 11 postcards

Box 3, Folder 28

Tirailleurs malgaches [Malagasy troops]

Physical Description: 12 postcards

Box 3, Folder 29

Tirailleurs malgaches [Malagasy troops], families

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 3, Folder 30

Tirailleurs méharistes [Camel-back troops]

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 3, Folder 31

Tirailleurs sénégalais [Senegalese troops]

Physical Description: 17 postcards

Box 3, Folder 32

Tirailleurs sénégalais [Senegalese troops], families

Physical Description: 15 postcards

Box 3, Folder 33

Tirailleurs sénégalais [Senegalese troops], World War I 1914-1919

Physical Description: 16 postcards

Box 3, Folder 34

Troops, Barracks

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Box 3, Folder 35

Troops, Interracial shots

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Box 3, Folder 36

Troops, Memorials and flag standard

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 3, Folder 37

Troops, Musée de l'Armée [Army Museum]

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 3, Folder 38

Troupes coloniales [Colonial troops]

Physical Description: 40 postcards

Box 3, Folder 39

Troupes coloniales [Colonial troops], Departure for Morocco, ca. 1911

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 3, Folder 40

Troupes coloniales [Colonial troops], Lithographs and offset lithographs

Physical Description: 20 postcards

Series I.H. Occupations and People, n.d.

Physical Description: 988 postcards

Scope and Content Note

These postcards show a range of employments and work activities. Both North Africans and Subsaharan Africans are included within these divisions. Occupations are followed by people of all races and ages present within the African colonies in the first half of the twentieth century. The depictions vary in intent from documentary, ethnographic or propagandistic to romanticized, erotic or racist. Postcards are arranged in the following groups: Occupations, North Africans, Subsaharan Africans, Europeans in Africa.

Box 3, Folder 41

Acrobats

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 3, Folder 42

Artisans

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 3, Folder 43

Barbers (for men)

Physical Description: 10 postcards

Box 3, Folder 44

Basket making & basketwork

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 3, Folder 45

Beggars

Physical Description: 10 postcards

Box 3, Folder 46

Cooking and pounding grain

Physical Description: 11 postcards

Box 3, Folder 47

Dancers

Physical Description: 31 postcards

Box 3, Folder 48

Doctors

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 3, Folder 49

Domino players

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 3, Folder 50

Falconer

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 3, Folder 51

Farming and husbandry

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 3, Folder 52

Fishermen

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 4, Folder 1

Fortune tellers

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 4, Folder 2

Furniture makers

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 4, Folder 3

Hairdressing (for women)

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 4, Folder 4

Metalworkers

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 4, Folder 5

Musicians

Physical Description: 28 postcards

Box 4, Folder 6

Porters

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 4, Folder 7

Potters and pottery

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 4, Folder 8

Screen and sieve makers

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 4, Folder 9

Shoemakers

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 4, Folder 10

Shoe shiner

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 4, Folder 11

Singers

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 4, Folder 12

Snake charmers

Physical Description: 15 postcards

Box 4, Folder 13

Storytellers

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 4, Folder 14

Washing clothes

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 4, Folder 15

Water sellers

Physical Description: 16 postcards

Box 4, Folder 16

Weavers and dyers

Physical Description: 26 postcards

Box 4, Folder 17

Wood and charcoal sellers

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 4, Folder 18

Wrestlers

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 4, Folder 19

North African boys

Physical Description: 34 postcards

Box 4, Folder 20

North African couples

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 4, Folder 21

North African families

Physical Description: 10 postcards

Box 4, Folder 22

North African girls and boys together

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 4, Folder 23

North African girls, young women

Physical Description: 38 postcards

Box 4, Folder 24

North African men

Physical Description: 54 postcards

Box 4, Folder 25

North African men at home, drinking tea or coffee

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 4, Folder 26

Missionaries in North Africa

Physical Description: 14 postcards

Box 4, Folder 27

North African nomads in tents

Physical Description: 22 postcards

Box 4, Folder 28

North African nomads with camels, in caravan

Physical Description: 51 postcards

Box 4, Folder 29

Touaregs, Targuis [Tuaregs]

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 4, Folder 30

North African warriors

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Box 4, Folder 31

North African women (Mauresques, Négresses, Bédouines)

Physical Description: 99 postcards

Box 4, Folder 32

North African women at home, women reclining

Physical Description: 22 postcards

Box 5, Folder 1

North African women carrying children

Physical Description: 47 postcards

Box 5, Folder 2

North African women having tea

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 5, Folder 3

North African women, nude or bare-breasted

Physical Description: 28 postcards

Box 5, Folder 4

North African women smoking

Physical Description: 14 postcards

Box 5, Folder 5

North African women, veiled

Physical Description: 35 postcards

Box 5, Folder 6

North African women with water jugs

Physical Description: 19 postcards

Box 5, Folder 7

Subsaharan African children

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 5, Folder 8

Subsaharan African children, racist kitsch

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 5, Folder 9

Subsaharan African Christians

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 5, Folder 10

Subsaharan African couples and families

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 5, Folder 11

Subsaharan African hunters

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 5, Folder 12

Subsaharan African kings and chiefs

Physical Description: 21 postcards

Box 5, Folder 13

Missionaries in Subsaharan Africa

Physical Description: 12 postcards

Box 5, Folder 14

Subsaharan Africa, unspecified

Physical Description: 7 postcards

Box 5, Folder 15

Subsaharan African warriors

Physical Description: 17 postcards

Box 5, Folder 16

[Burkina Faso] Haute Volta

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 17

Cameroun [Cameroon]

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 5, Folder 18

[Central African Republic] Oubangi Chari

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 19

[Chad] Tchad

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 5, Folder 20

Congo Belge [Congo (Democratic Republic)]

Physical Description: 8 postcards

Box 5, Folder 21

Congo Français [Congo (Brazzaville)]

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 5, Folder 22

Côte d'Ivoire

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 5, Folder 23

Djibouti

Physical Description: 12 postcards

Box 5, Folder 24

Gabon

Physical Description: 5 postcards

Box 5, Folder 25

Gambia

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 26

[ Ghana] Gold Coast

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 27

Guinée [ Guinea]

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Box 5, Folder 28

Kenya

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 5, Folder 29

Madagascar, Hova

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 5, Folder 30

Madagascar, Makoa

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 5, Folder 31

Madagascar, Sakalava

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 5, Folder 32

Madagascar, various ethnicities

Physical Description: 12 postcards

Box 5, Folder 33

[Mali] Soudan

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 5, Folder 34

Mauritania

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 5, Folder 35

Mozambique

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 5, Folder 36

Niger

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 37

Senegal, Bambara

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 38

Senegal, Cérères [Serer]

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 5, Folder 39

Senegal, Diola

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 5, Folder 40

Senegal, Fadiouth

Physical Description: 3 postcards

Box 5, Folder 41

Senegal, Foulah/Peulh

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 5, Folder 42

Senegal, Lahobé

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 43

Senegal, Lebou

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 5, Folder 44

Senegal, Mankaigne

Physical Description: 2 postcards

Box 5, Folder 45

Senegal, Maures

Physical Description: 4 postcards

Box 5, Folder 46

Senegal, Ouolof, Yoloff [Wolof]

Physical Description: 6 postcards

Box 5, Folder 47

Senegal, various ethnicities or unidentified

Physical Description: 9 postcards

Box 5, Folder 48

Sierra Leone

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 49

Togo

Physical Description: 1 postcard

Box 5, Folder 50

Europeans in Africa

Physical Description: 21 postcards

Series II. Photographs, 1895-ca. 1962

Physical Description: 353 photographs and 14 albums

Scope and Content Note

Series II documents indigenous African people and culture, African landscapes, cities, architecture, infrastructure, industry, and colonial life as seen through the lenses of European photographers resident or travelling in French Africa. The collection includes images with ethnographic and documentary intent as well as press bureau photographs, tourist and travel snapshots, photographs of colonists with families, and pictures taken by soldiers and colonial administrators and functionaries during wartime, official duties, and social events.

Arrangement

The series is arranged into two subseries: Loose photographs, 1895-ca. 1962; and Photograph albums, 1898-1960.

Series II.A. Loose photographs, 1895-ca. 1962

Physical Description: 353 photographs

Scope and Content Note

The organization of the photographs in Series II.A. mirrors the groupings in which they arrived at the repository.

Many of the loose photographs, particularly those in Box 7, folders 12-33, have copies or photographs with related subject matter included in the photograph albums, especially the Desmarais series (boxes 16-22).

Box 6, Folder 1

Schoeffler, G., Views of Gabon, 1910-1911

Physical Description: 28 photographic prints : gelatin silver, 13 x 18 cm.

Scope and Content Note

This incomplete grouping consists of nine unnumbered, undated photographs and nineteen dated photographs bearing the following numbers: 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 27, 31, 39, 61, 67, 69, 76, 79, 95, 100. Seller's inventory dates photographs as 1910-1912.

G. Schoeffler was a colonial administrator and photographer active in Gabon and the AEF (Afrique équatoriale française). The hand-captioned photographs show portraits of African men and women with their clothing and hair adornment, European administrators traveling through the colony in boat or tipoye (litter), military posts, landscapes, river scenes, canoeing, a fetish house, and a trick photograph of a European shooting at an outsized hippopotamus. Ethnic groups pictured: Pahouine, Barimeba, Dendi, Bapono, Bavili, Eschira.

Box 6, Folder 2

Military Troops, 1895-1942

Physical Description: 8 photographic prints : collodion, matte collodion, gelatin silver; 13 x 18 cm. and smaller.

Scope and Content Note

Photographs show colonial troops and "tirailleur" regiments in Madagascar, Africa and France: four interracial group shots (On versos: "Cadres coloniaux et Tirailleurs, AOF/AEF, [ca.] 1900" and "Avec les sénégalais au camp Ste. Marthe à Marseille, 1940-42"); two portrait shots of European soldiers, and one of an African soldier (On verso: "Souvenir de ton filleul Philippe Latmel Margueritte"); and one shot of a European in suit on donkey-back, next to standing Africans in loincloths (On verso: "Tournée de Recrutement en Brousse 1910-1920")

Box 6, Folder 3

People, Thiès, Senegal, [1910?]

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints: collodion; 13 x 18 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Photographs show a seated group of African villagers with a standing African man in a Homburg hat; and a group of Maures and Europeans at rest together alongside a wooden building, with camels, large cloth-covered bundles, and a cooking pot. (On verso: "Intérieur d'un traitant à Thiès. Estradier, sa femme, de portage et des Maures.")

Box 6, Folder 4

People, Senegal - AOF, 1910-[1950?]

Physical Description: 5 photographic prints : collodion, gelatin silver; 13 x 18 and smaller.

Scope and Content Note

An African couple in a studio shot with an umbrella (On verso: "St. Louis, 1913" and "1910"), villagers by the roadside (On verso: "Sur la route, la halte"), a market scene with Africans and platforms made of thin logs (On verso: "Marché de Kalaka [?]"), a smiling man in a field of tall sorghum, and three men on shipboard.

Box 6, Folder 5

14 July celebrations, Constantinople, 1919

Physical Description: 3 photographic prints: collodion; 12 x 17 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Anonymous photographs show Senegalese and Malagasy troops dancing before spectators, as well as a turbaned man climbing up a "mât de cocagne" (cuccagna tree or pole).

Box 6, Folder 6

Women, Madagascar, [1930?]

Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 15 x 11 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Two women standing outside grass-thatched building.

Box 6, Folder 7

Régnard and Latil, Views of Dakar, 1930 and 1936

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints: collodion; 17 x 12 cm and smaller

Scope and Content Note

View of vegetation in the "Jardin de Hann" (1930), and an aerial shot of the "Résidence de l'Administrateur [et] l'Hippodrome" (1936).

Box 6, Folder 8

Governor Jourdain, Views of Djibouti, 1935-1938

Physical Description: 7 photographic prints: collodion; 9 x 12 and smaller.

Scope and Content Note

Photographs show ritual dancing or combat between Africans holding spears or staffs, with electrical towers and buildings in the distance; European officers and their wives before a motorcar, and seated in rows at an event; the train to Addis Ababa with station, passengers and officials; and a view of a campsite with tent, Africans and a European on horseback (On verso: "Environs de Dikkil - Campement d'administrateur en tournée").

Box 6, Folder 9

Galandou Diouf with Senegalese soldiers, 1939

Physical Description: 1 photographic print: collodion; 13 x 18 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Galandou Diouf, representative of Senegal in the French National Assembly, is pictured with Senegalese soldiers in uniform, and two other men in civilian clothes. Photo taken 1939 Dec. 23. Mimeographed information affixed to back of photograph.

Box 6, Folder 10

Mission, Gabon, 1940

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints: collodion; 7 x 11 cm.

Scope and Content Note

African adults and children lined up outside a mission building, posing with two missionaries (On verso: "La mission Gabon 1940 Anonyme"; and a young African man and woman holding two children with severe skin lesions (On verso: "Jeunes chrétiens Gabon 1940 Anonyme).

Box 6, Folder 11

Africans with scarifications, [1940?]

Physical Description: 6 photographic prints: collodion, gelatin silver; 18 x 13 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Views of African women and men show a wide array of facial and body scarifications, including those of a Bété woman from Côte d'Ivoire, and another woman with a lip plug.

Box 6, Folder 12

Wuillaume, R., African villagers, [1950?]

Physical Description: 4 photographic prints: collodion; 6 x 9 cm.

Scope and Content Note

An African woman next to a hut or pile of grain; four African men standing by a road holding hunting bows; eight villagers carrying a large bell-shaped straw roof out of a river.

Box 6, Folder 13

Tirailleurs sénégalais (African soldiers), Morocco, 1920

Physical Description: 3 photographic prints: collodion, gelatin silver; 9 x 7 cm. and smaller; one on backing 10 x 15 cm.

Scope and Content Note

An outdoor shot of a Tirailleur; a young European woman and her daughter with dog, in the midst of Tirailleurs sénégalais; a group of Tirailleurs sénégalais and one European officer looking on as a soldier bends over to eat face-first from a large pan of food.

Box 6, Folder 14

European soldiers with Moroccans, 1920

Physical Description: 1 photographic print: collodion; 8 x 11 cm.

Scope and Content Note

European soldiers and Moroccans stand before a barrier of piled-up sandbags. Before them is a wooden platform, a vertical panel attached on one side, with iron rings, hooks and a hanging padlock.

Box 6, Folder 15

Europeans, "Afrique Noire", 1920

Physical Description: 1 photographic print: collodion; 13 x 18 cm.

Scope and Content Note

A group of European men stands under a grape arbor, next to a pile of corn and hanging strands of drying leaves (possibly tobacco?). The men wear military helmets, butcher's aprons, hunting garb; some smoke pipes; two are looking at a folded newspaper or booklet; one man wears a turban and Arab clothing and holds an oar. Another man poses camping in a women's dress, finger to lip, and carries a bouquet of dried plant stalks, while a man in headcloth leans smiling over his shoulder. A small boy sits on the corn pile. (On verso: "Afrique Noire 1920".)

Box 6, Folder 16

European soldier and friends, Morocco, 1926

Physical Description: 6 photographic prints: collodion; 8 x 11 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

An unidentified European soldier is shown in several group shots with other soldiers, both African and European, in uniform (with rifles) and in fatigues (On verso: "Maroc, Octobre 1926. Je suis bien mal fichu"); posing with a young African standing in a stream (On verso: "Maroc. À la corvée de lavage, le 11 Septembre 1926"); posing before cactus, a dog at his feet (On verso: "Maroc. Dans le ravin où l'on fait le tir. Fait à Fes le 8 Août 1926. R[...]" [signature illegible]); and with friends at table inside a store or office, with wine, bread and a platter of foodstuffs (possibly figs or chestnuts?).

Box 6, Folder 17

European soldiers, Morocco, 1920-30

Physical Description: 3 photographic prints : collodion, gelatin silver; 5 x 7 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Views of European soldiers before Moroccan architecture, and of a radio operator.

Box 6, Folder 18

European officers at ceremony before Moroccan crowd, 1920-1930

Physical Description: 6 photographic prints: collodion, matte collodion; 9 x 12 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Outdoor shots of European officers with large Moroccan crowd, seemingly documenting a medalling ceremony. Also pictured are several European women, one in a fur coat; small children; an automobile; and three young Moroccan women in white dresses. The same faces recur throughout these photographs (though the shots may represent different events or days) as well as in those of the next folder. On versos: "Campagne du Maroc 1920" and "Maroc 1920/30".

Box 6, Folder 19

European life, Morocco, 1920-30

Physical Description: 10 photographic prints : collodion, matte collodion; 9 x 12 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Intimate views of European family and social life in Morocco, including a couple embracing in a chair (their faces are recognizable from photographs in the previous folder), the same couple posing with an infant, solo posing and social gatherings in living rooms, table scenes, and a picnic. A final photograph shows nine European men sitting and reclining in a Moroccan tent with an older Moroccan man and two young women, or possibly a woman and a boy, with whom two European men are sitting closely. (The seller's inventory gives for this lot of photographs the subject term "prostitutes"; perhaps they are referring to this photograph.) The same faces recur throughout this folder, as well as in the previous folder.

Box 6, Folder 20

Abidjan, 1904 and 1914

Physical Description: 7 photographic prints : collodion; 4 x 4 cm. on backing 19 x 14 cm.; 11 x 15 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Six photographs pasted on a single backing show July 14th festivities and games, including a military ceremony (with rifles propped into pyramids), a canoe race, a swimming race and a "mât horizontal", with contestants trying to walk across a pole suspended over water without falling (Caption: "Le 14 Juillet 1904 à Abidjan [...]"). Another photograph shows a large group shot of standing white-uniformed soldiers, with three officers and three women seated in front, next to a long thatched building, with trees and dogs in the foreground (On verso: "Cercle d'Abidjan 1914, Réception de tirailleurs revenant de France").

Box 6, Folder 21

Madagascar, [1910?]

Physical Description: 3 photographic prints: albumen; 10 x 15 cm. on backing 11 x 17 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Posed shots of Malagasy families, and one shot of a uniformed European standing inside a filanzane, or litter, surrounded by Malagasy porters.

Box 6, Folder 22

European soldiers with African boys, [1910?]

Physical Description: 1 photographic print: collodion; 11 x 9 cm. on backing 18 x 13 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Two soldiers or officers stand with two African boys sitting at their feet. In the background is an umbrella or tent, another tent with Europeans sitting before it, and a house with a veranda.

Box 6, Folder 23

Carew, A. Ferdinand and anonymous, Nigeria, [1910?] and 1951

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints : albumen, collodion; 14 x 10 cm. on backing 16 x 11 cm. and smaller.

Scope and Content Note

One portrait photograph shows a European officer posing with sword, with an African holding the bridle of a saddled horse (photograph by A. Ferdinand Carew, Lagos); the other photograph shows a road with people, horses or donkeys, and what appear to be hay carts, leading across a bridge into the gate of a mud-walled fortification (On verso: "Kano (Nigeria) le 22 Octobre 1951").

Box 6, Folder 24

Merly, Jean, Quartermaster's warehouse, Dakar, 1912

Physical Description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver; 12 x 17 cm. on backing 14 x 19 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Uniformed Europeans pose before a building under construction; African, Moroccan and/or European workers in background. On verso, a stamp: "Jean MERLY Entrepreneur de Travaux Publics, Dakar (Sénégal)". On verso: "Dakar 14 Août 1912, Merly. Magasin Central d'habillement, campement et couchage à Dakar."

Box 6, Folder 25

People, Algeria and Libya or Syria, n.d. and 1929

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints : collodion; 9 x 13 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Arab horseman rides rearing horse before crowd of Algerian onlookers; two men and three donkeys loaded with cabbages walk down a long straight road (On verso: "Homs, Décembre 1929, Les chous [sic] s'en vont au marché..."). Note: Cities named Homs are located in both Libya and Syria.

Box 6, Folder 26

Dupuy et Cie, Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris, May 1931

Physical Description: 10 photographic prints: collodion; 10 x 13 cm and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Views of various pavilions (several with troops or visiting dignitaries in front), of lions in their viewing pen, and of a group of four Senegalese in robes standing or sitting on the ground, Exposition pavilions visible in the background, while European passersby look on (On verso: "Les Sénégalais discutent"). Photographs captioned on verso in pencil, and stamped: "Société du Petit Parisien Dupuy et Cie."

Box 8, Folder 12

2e [Deuxième] Artillerie Coloniale, [1914-1918?]

Physical Description: 1 photographic print : collodion; 17 x 23 cm. on backing 21 x 28 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Interracial shot of 2nd Colonial Artillery regiment, with seven European soldiers, all standing, and eight African soldiers, two standing and six seated on the ground. The background is a forest, with a sign identifying the regiment attached to a tree trunk. Caption in pencil: "Afrique."

Box 7, Folder 1

Camus, Ernest, Côte d'Ivoire, Soudan [Mali], 1898-1916, bulk 1898-1905

Physical Description: 25 photographic prints: collodion, matte collodion; 13 x 18 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Photographs taken by or for Ernest Camus during his stay in Africa (1898-1905) as an officer in the Corps of Engineers (officier du Génie). Included are a group shot of European officers; views of their traveling (one in a hammock carried by African porters); military or engineering posts and stations; Tirailleurs sénégalais lining a city street ; work sites and crews; dock scenes with boats; ethnographic shots of African men and women; market scenes (including shots of camels); and road scenes, including one of an African walking alongside a row of huts. Includes one posed shot of Camus, taken at his desk in 1916.

See also Camus's Album photos : Soudan, Côte d'Ivoire : box 9.

Box 31, Folder 1

Camus, Ernest, Côte d'Ivoire, Soudan [Mali], 1898-1916

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints: collodion; 19 x 25 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Continuation of Camus photographs, featuring an African woman in a village street, two stacked bowls balanced on her head, and the loading or unloading of a boat moored by a riverbank.

Box 31, Folder 1

Anonymous conscript, Algerian War, 1958-60

Scope and Content Note

Candid photographs of life in a French army contingent, taken by an anonymous conscript during the Algerian war, 1958-1960.

The dinner shots are of a "Père Cent" celebration, traditionally taking place one hundred days before a regiment was to be demobilized. The "quille" or carved wooden nine-pin (the word "quille" also refers to the day of discharge from service) may be hung or buried as part of the celebration (see Garanger, Marc, La guerre d'Algérie. [Paris]: Seuil, 1984, p. 86-93).

Box 7, Folder 2

Group 1 (C154-163)

Physical Description: 10 photographic prints : collodion; 9 x 13 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Group shot of soldiers standing before tents; soldiers before trucks; in sleeping bags near trucks; a palm grove or oasis; soldiers in palm grove; soldiers seated in desert with firearms; group shot of shirtless soldiers; soldiers on hillside; soldiers at work piling up flat stones (possibly to create a gunning position? ); a scorpion. Roll numbers: unnumbered, 362A, 389A, 429C, 430C.

Box 7, Folder 3

Group 2 (C144-153)

Physical Description: 9 photographic prints : collodion; 8 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Trucks in an Algerian market; trucks by a palm grove; soldiers constructing a building; soldier resting against boulders; soldiers riding a tank; soldiers reclining in the desert; overhead view of military camp; a helicopter; foot patrol in the desert. Roll numbers: 429C, 506A, 514A, 674A.

Box 7, Folder 4

Group 3 (C134-143)

Physical Description: 10 photographic prints : collodion; 8 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content Note

An airplane over the desert; soldiers piled into a truck, whose engine is being fixed; helicopters landing in the desert; planes flying in formation, seen from a town street; parachuting; soldiers drinking in a tent; military camp; soldiers near water amidst palm trees; soldier atop a tank with gun turret and rifle mount. Roll numbers: 429C, 514A, 674A.

Box 7, Folder 5

Group 4 (C124-133)

Physical Description: 11 photographic prints: collodion; 8 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Group shots of soldiers in swimsuits by river; soldier posing before tank with gun turret; helicopters on the ground; soldiers drinking in a tent; soldier reclining outside a tent; group shot in swimsuits by a river; posing next to a tank; soldiers in the field using a radio phone; overhead views of military camp; soldiers patrolling; helicopter taking off or landing. Roll numbers: unnumbered, 429C, 506A, 514A, 674A.

Box 7, Folder 6

Group 5 (C114-123)

Physical Description: 9 photographic prints : collodion; 8 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Soldiers eating or cooking at table outside tents; an airplane; soldier climbing up a hillside; soldiers drinking in a tent; soldiers next to metal bins (containing water and sand?); soldiers in the back of a truck; soldier walking with plate of food while others look on; soldiers hoisting water from a well; group shot of soldiers outside tents. Roll numbers: 096A, 429C, 506A, 514A.

Box 7, Folder 7

Group 6 (C94-103)

Physical Description: 10 photographic prints : collodion; 8 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Group shot of soldiers outside tents; group shot of soldiers under tree; soldiers squatting before barbed wire; soldiers reclining on luggage at train station (2 views); soldiers next to train; "Père Cent" dinner inside tent, with "quille", or nine-pin symbolizing demobilization, hung over the table; view of Algerian town or fortress (with marabout or shrine?); three helicopters parked on desert floor; soldiers on ground with airplane overhead. Roll numbers: 099A, 530A, 721D, 743C, 783E.

Box 7, Folder 8

Group 7 (C104-113)

Physical Description: 11 photographic prints : collodion; 8 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Soldiers drinking inside tent (2 views); fixing a truck engine while soldiers wait; soldiers resting on wheeled water canister; soldiers seated in a circle outside shed; soldier posing outside tent; two soldiers posing in desert; group shot of soldiers outside helicopter; a hillside or ravine; parachutes descending; soldiers seated on cots inside a tent, with a pyramid-shaped pile of oblong white objects (a bunch of dates?). Roll numbers: 096A, 429C, 506A, 514A, 674A, 783E, 795E.

Box 7, Folder 9

Group 8 [no C numbers]

Physical Description: 7 photographic prints : collodion; 9 x 13 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Soldiers and police in jeeps along city street; soldiers sitting with baggage along train tracks (during transit?); two soldiers posing in desert, armed, before low mountains; soldiers on patrol in desert; soldiers with an overturned cart; soldiers squatting behind piled-up stones (possibly a gunning position); Algerians riding donkeys. Roll numbers: unnumbered, 148B, 362A, 430C.

Box 7, Folder 10

Group 9 [no C numbers]

Physical Description: 5 photographic prints: collodion; 13 x 18 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Views of "Père Cent" dinner inside tent, with one soldier carrying the "quille" (nine-pin signifying demobilization); outdoor group portrait with "quille" (possibly a different contingent); Algerian youths playing soccer. No roll numbers.

Box 7, Folder 11

Dessault, L., Photo-Héliogravure Algérienne, Algiers, [1951] or [1956] or [1962]

Physical Description: 16 photographic prints : collodion; 13 x 18 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Views of employees at work in a commercial photogravure and lithography print shop in Algiers. Various points in the process are documented, including making a positive slide of an original negative; use of lithographic presses, paper trimmers and other machines; water, acid or mordant baths (including acid bath rockers); rinsing, stopping, cleaning, polishing, and inking of plates; and other activities. The employees, almost universally colonists of European descent, are joined by two indigenous Algerians. One group shot of employees before the business storefront is included. Several of the photographs have been substantially retouched, and all are stamped on verso: "L. Dessault, Photo Industrielle et Reportage, 41 rue Mogador, Alger."

Possible dates are based on evidence of a perpetual calendar, some of the photographs having been taken on 24 September (Monday) and 2 October (Tuesday) of the year in question. Date is erroneous in seller's inventory as 1958-1960.

Box 31, Folder 2

Blain Frères, Biskra, [n.d.]

Physical Description: 1 photographic print : matte collodion; 24 x 18 cm. on backing 28 x 20 cm.

Scope and Content Note

View of a street in Biskra, Algeria, set in a palm grove, with six persons in Arab dress walking along it, some using walking sticks. The roadway is lined with waist-high walls of mud or stone; on top of one of the walls rests what appears to be a jug or canteen with a white European-style helmet posed atop it; a walking stick leans against the wall below. On the backing is printed "Blain Frères, Valence," a photographic studio in Valence, France, active by 1905.

Box 7, Folder 12-33

Desmarais and other photographers, Senegal - AOF (Afrique occidentale française) - Congo Belge, 1929-1960

Scope and Content Note

This lot, which includes some photographs labeled as "cartes postales", is made up of strongly ethnographic images of African village life, as well as documentary images of cities and of European life in Africa. For related images, refer to the Desmarais series of photograph albums: boxes 16 through 22. References have been made to specific box numbers for some though not all correspondences. Seller's inventory gives dates for this lot as 1930-1931, though duplicates in the Desmarais albums indicate that the true date span may extend up to 1960.

Box 7, Folder 12

African women, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 12 photographic prints: collodion; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Women alone in different settings, wearing a variety of clothing, jewelry, and hairstyles. Some hold children.

Box 7, Folder 13

African women in groups, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 7 photographic prints : collodion, gelatin silver; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Women and girls outdoors, in villages, forests or open savanna, in groups of three or more. One group stands with piled-up pottery and baskets.

Box 7, Folder 14

African women, pair, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints : collodion; 13 x 9 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Two women in Maure-type robes from same photo shoot; one holds a baby.

Box 7, Folder 15

African women pounding grain, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 7 photographic prints: collodion; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Women with mortars, pestles and baskets, while children stand or sit by. One photograph, showing three women pounding into the same mortar, is captioned in pencil on verso: "1. Sénégal - Préparation du Couscous. Collection 'Le Bon Marché', Dakar."

Box 7, Folder 16

African women, scarified, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints: collodion; 14 x 9 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Two women with elaborate torso scarifications, one with jewelry and piercings; the other carries a basket on her head.

Box 7, Folder 17

African women, tribes identified on verso, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 5 photographic prints: collodion, gelatin silver; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Women, both alone and in group shots. One woman holding a goat stands in a village complex with a man and several children. On versos: "Foulah"; "Toucouleuse"; "Peulh"; "Toucouleur à Galoya"; "22. Sénégal - Femme Mandingue. Collection 'Le Bon Marché', Dakar."

Box 7, Folder 18

African women working, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 5 photographic prints: collodion, gelatin silver; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Women at lavish public fountain; washing clothes in the river; carding wool; cooking; and carrying a large round pot through the village.

Box 7, Folder 19

Bridges, dams, canals, Senegal - AOF, 1929-1931

Physical Description: 3 photographic prints : collodion, gelatin silver; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Views of a canal near Bamako (On verso: "Canal de Sotuba, février 1929"); a bridge near Kayes (On verso: "Pont sur le Sénégal à Mahina"); and a bridge over a deep gorge.

For related images, see Desmarais, Views of Africa, Vol. 2: box 17.

Box 7, Folder 20

Canoes and canoeing, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints : collodion; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Four people in a canoe with view of riverbank; and a woman (On verso: "Race Khasonké") standing by a canoe containing woven reed articles, while to the side a pig drinks from the river Niger.

For related images, see Desmarais, Views of Africa, vol. 5: box 20.

Box 7, Folder 21

Dancers and festivals, Senegal - AOF - Congo Belge, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 6 photographic prints : collodion; 9 x 14 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Views of African dancers, drummers, musicians, and celebrations. On versos: "Congo Belge"; "Balafons" (a type of xylophone); "Danses Bassaris."

For images related to the balafons and to the skirted men standing in a row, see Desmarais, Views of Africa, vol. 2: box 17. For images related to the "Danses Bassaris" photograph, see Desmarais, Views of Africa, vol. 4: box 19, and Views of Africa, vol. 6: box 21. For images related to the "Congo Belge" photograph of Rwandan dancers, see Desmarais, Views of Africa, vol. 7: box 22.

Box 7, Folder 22

Dancers, Masked, Bamako, 1929

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints: collodion; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Dancers stand wearing long cloth masks lined with cowries, topped with carved wood and a plume. On verso: "Bamako, février 1929, danseurs masqués."

For related image, see Desmarais, Views of Africa, Vol. 2: box 17.

Box 7, Folder 23

European hunters, caravans, travel, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 10 photographic prints : gelatin silver; 10 x 15 cm.

Scope and Content Note

European hunters posing with African assistants, firearms and a variety of shot animals. Includes views of one hunter with a family of Maure nomads before a hut; a European man and woman and an African man before a caravan of pack camels, Maure camel driver visible in background; Africans and Europeans with motorcar on a wooden ferry; elephants on a hillside; and two European men, a European woman and an African boy with dog, goat and tame gazelle before the façade of the Château Faidherbe, in Richard-Toll, Senegal.

For images related to the photographs of the hunter and Maure nomads, the caravan, and Château Faidherbe, see Desmarais, Views of Africa, Vol. 1: box 16; and Views of Africa, Vol. 2: box 17.

Box 7, Folder 24

Europeans with motorcars, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 5 photographic prints : collodion, gelatin silver; 9 x 14 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

European men (some in bathing suits), women and families pose with their cars at the beach, in gardens and amongst baobab trees.

Box 7, Folder 25

Landscapes, monument, river scenes, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 3 photographic prints : collodion; 9 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Views of two unidentified sites, one with pitted, tilting stone pillars of varying heights (located in Lampour), and one of a tall irregularly-shaped monolith, located on a flat stone mass dotted with sinkwells (location unknown). Also, a view of a rapids along the Niger river (On verso: "Bief sur le Niger, vu de la chaussée Terrasson"). Consult the Desmarais albums for more views of both sites.

Box 7, Folder 26

Making palm oil, Conakry, Guinea, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 1 photographic print : collodion; 14 x 9 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Boys stand amidst jars and piles of palm nuts (On verso: "Conakry - Préparation de l'huile de palme").

Box 7, Folder 27

Ship at port, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 4 photographic prints : collodion; 6 x 9 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Views of a wharf with waiting Africans and Europeans, and of a ship with European women and one man standing on one of the decks. Also a view of the port as seen from the ship, out to sea. These images may relate to Official visit of André Maginot to Dakar and French Sudan : box 11. However, not all pictures may refer to the same event.

Box 7, Folder 28

Tents and pack donkeys, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 3 photographic prints : gelatin silver; 14 x 9 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Views of tents in a desert background, with some crates and barrels stacked by them, and of pack donkeys led by Africans. For further images, see Desmarais, Views of Africa, Vol. 2: box 17.

Box 7, Folder 29

Views of city and shore, [Dakar?], 1930-1931

Physical Description: 6 photographic prints : collodion; 7 x 11 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Views of street, sea wall, pier, and several colonial buildings, possibly in Dakar.

Box 7, Folder 30

Views of Dakar and European residents, 1929-1931

Physical Description: 9 photographic prints : collodion; 9 x 14 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

Views of coastline, harbor (On verso: "7 Juin 1929"), and colonial buildings, with a picture of a European family taken from a cliff overlooking the ocean, and of a European man in front of a house veranda. On versos: "Dakar." For related images, see Views of Dakar: box 12.

Box 7, Folder 31

Views of Podor, Senegal, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints : collodion; 8 x 13 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Views of the riverbank with boats (On verso: "Le Sénégal à Podor"), and of a group of women and children.

Box 7, Folder 32

Views of sea and rivers, Senegal - AOF, 1930-1931

Physical Description: 6 photographic prints : matte collodion; 15 x 7 cm. and smaller ; two on backing 17 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of coastlines and river scenes with palm trees, some showing piers, boats, colonial buildings or Europeans. One of the photograph is signed "Lapierre." Several of the other photos are printed onto blue paper.

Box 7, Folder 33

Malinké women, Senegal - AOF, 1938-1951

Physical Description: 2 photographic prints : collodion; 9 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Malinké or Mandingo women wearing jewelry and carrying bunches of flowers (On verso: "Filles Malinkés excisées"). Photographs taken from Desmarais, Views of Africa, Vol. 5: box 20; see this album for duplicates and related images.

Series II.B. Photograph albums, 1898-1960

Physical Description: 14 albums

Scope and Content Note

Subseries II.B. continues the themes of architectural, geographic and ethnographic documentation of French Africa, as well as colonial and administrative life. All of the albums are individually cataloged in the repository's online catalog; please refer to these records for extensive descriptions.

Box 9

Camus, Ernest, Album photos, Soudan, Côte d'Ivoire, 1898-1905

Physical Description: 1 album (166 photographic prints) : collodion ; 28 x 37 cm., prints 17 x 22 cm. or smaller

Scope and Content Note

The album contains photographs taken by and for Ernest Camus, amateur photographer and officer in the Corps of Engineers, during his stay in West Africa from 1898 to 1905.

See also Box 7, folder 1 and Box 8, folder 13 for further Camus photographs.

Box 10

Photographies (Ht. Dahomey Gourma-Borgou), [ca. 1920]

Physical Description: 1 album (85 photographic prints) : collodion, matte collodion, gelatin silver ; 27 x 33 cm., prints 18 x 13 or smaller

Scope and Content Note

The seller's inventory states that this album details the career of a colonial soldier named Gourmand-Borgon, who married an African woman. However, based on caption information, the album more likely details the career of a Doctor Bartet, a European man shown with his African wife and mixed-race son. Also documented are Bartet's activities in the region of Borgou, located in the north or northeast of Benin (Haut Dahomey), and the adjacent region of Gourma, in the southeast of Burkina Faso.

Some captions barely legible: caption list available in repository.

Box 11

[Official visit of André Maginot to Dakar and French Sudan], [1929]

Physical Description: 1 album (48 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 18 x 25 cm., prints 12 x 17 cm.

Scope and Content Note

This photograph album records the official visit of André Maginot to Dakar and French Sudan, beginning with Maginot's arrival by boat on 1929 Feb. 7 and his reception by Blaise Diagne.

Box 12

[Views of Dakar], [ca. 1930]

Physical Description: 1 album (48 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 22 x 29 cm., prints 12 x 17 cm.

Scope and Content Note

The album contains images of Dakar, taken approximately in 1930. The photographs are architectural and documentary in character; people are included in some of the views.

Box 13

Hernandez, E, Tchèque(s)[?] voyagent au Maroc pour rendre visite à un légionnaire [de] garnison, [ca. 1930]

Physical Description: 1 album (209 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 25 x 33 cm., prints 11 x 16 cm. and smaller

Scope and Content Note

The album documents an automobile tour taken by a Czech-Spanish married couple through Morocco. Near the very end of the album are 18 photographs of Barcelona, including several of the 1929 International Exposition.

Captions in Czech: caption list with translations available in repository.

Box 14

[Views of Mali], [ca. 1940]

Physical Description: 1 album (80 photographic prints) : collodion ; 23 x 34 cm., prints 13 x 18.5 cm.

Scope and Content Note

The album contains a series of views of Mali, which are documentary and touristic in nature; they appear to have been produced by the "Service spécial de police & sûreté, Soudan français," and to have been placed into this album by an unknown private individual.

Captions on versos of photographs: caption list available in repository.

Box 15

Portal, Henri, [Views of Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso], [1953-1956]

Physical Description: 1 album (98 photographic prints) : collodion ; 23 x 30 cm., prints 9 x 11 cm.

Scope and Content Note

The album contains uncaptioned snapshots of work and travel through Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso (then known as Haute Volta) and possibly also Ghana, taken during the mid-1950's by Henri Portal, a doctor and colonial functionary, active in hospital work in French West Africa

Henri Portal, a doctor and colonial functionary, was active in hospital work in French West Africa during the years specified.

Box 16-22

Desmarais, [Views of Africa]

Scope and Content Note

These seven albums document the African activities of Desmarais (first name not available), a French photographer and painter based in Paris. Desmarais lived off and on in French and Belgian Africa from approximately 1929 to 1960, during which time he organized travel and hunting expeditions together with his brother; his son, Michel Desmarais, was a planter in the Belgian Congo. Seller's inventory gives date of photographs for all seven Desmarais albums as 1929 to 1960, with photographs from different time periods mingled in each album. The photographs were taken by Desmarais and other local photographers; the albums also include postcards and press bureau photographs ("clichés d'agence"). Albums and album captions were created by the author in approximately 1967 or 1969. Dates for individual photograph albums were taken from seller's inventory and should be regarded as approximate.

Box 16

Desmarais, [Views of Africa. Vol. 1, Senegal, Guinea, Mali], [1931-1938]

Physical Description: 1 album (215 photographic prints) : collodion, gelatin silver ; 29 x 35 cm., prints 14 x 9 cm. or smaller

Scope and Content Note

This album contains partially-captioned photographs taken predominantly in the Gambia River valley, in Senegal and possibly also Gambia, along with some shots taken in Guinea and Mali that appear at album's end. Most images are of indigenous African, mainly women, often identified by tribe, and of European hunters. The photographs, despite the dates given for them in the seller's inventory, may span up to 20 years.

Box 17

Desmarais, [Views of Africa. Vol. 2, Mali, Guinea, Mauritania, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire], [1931-1951]

Physical Description: 1 album (248 photographic prints) : collodion, gelatin silver ; 28 x 35 cm., prints 16 x 23 cm. or smaller

Scope and Content Note

This album concentrates on views of Mali, Guinea, Senegal and Mauritania, with a few of Côte d'Ivoire. Subjects depicted include rivers and markets, festivals with costumed dancers and musicians (balafon and horn players and drummers), African men in boats or on horseback or camelback and women with their dress and jewelry (some with scarifications), village life, nomads with camels, and Europeans in Africa. Included are five small photograps from Maginot's 1929 visit to French Sudan (see Official visit of André Maginot to Dakar and French Sudan : box 11).

Box 18

Desmarais, [Views of Africa. Vol. 3, Guinea, Senegal], [1948-1951]

Physical Description: 1 album (159 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 28 x 36 cm., prints 20 x 30 cm. or smaller

Scope and Content Note

This album contains views of Guinea and southeastern Senegal, with emphasis on photographs of indigenous Africans, along with views of Europeans and of the Guinean highlands (Fouta Djallon and points east), with shots of rivers and waterfalls, gorges, jungle scenes, and the hill station ("station climatique") at Dalaba.

Box 19

Desmarais, [Views of Africa. Vol. 4, Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania], [1931-1952]

Physical Description: 1 album (212 photographic prints) : collodion ; 30 x 39 cm., prints 18 x 24 cm. or smaller

Scope and Content Note

This album contains views of Guinea, Senegal, Mali and Mauritania. Subjects include views of indigenous Africans, both in portrait shots and in village and landscape scenes, European men and women, a salt caravan, several views of a bush fire, and a group shot of European pilots on an airfield ("Dakar 1er aeroclub").

Box 20

Desmarais, [Views of Africa. Vol. 5, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire], [1938-1951]

Physical Description: 1 album (254 photographic prints) : collodion, silver gelatin ; 30 x 39 cm., prints 18 x 25 cm. or smaller

Scope and Content Note

This fifth album in a series of seven contains views of Senegal, Guinea, Mali and Côte d'Ivoire. Africans are shown with their costumes and jewelry, hairstyles, and scarifications. There is a concentration of images of semi-nude African women, possibly assembled with erotic intent; some women are shown in European surroundings, sitting in armchairs or reclining on sofas. There are also views of Europeans in hunting scenes with shot game as well as together with indigenous Africans.

Box 21

Desmarais, [Views of Africa. Vol. 6, Mauritania, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso], [1949-1960]

Physical Description: 1 album (52 photographic prints) : collodion, silver gelatin ; 29 x 42 cm., prints 9 x 14 cm. or smaller

Scope and Content Note

This album contains views of Mauritania, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso. Indigenous Africans are shown in portrait shots with their jewelry, and in village scenes; there are also Europeans as well as views of coastline and industrial sites near Dakar.

Box 22

Desmarais, [Views of Africa. Vol. 7, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Southern Africa], [1941-1960]

Physical Description: 1 album (227 photographic prints) : collodion ; 29 x 40 cm., prints 25 x 18 cm. or smaller

Scope and Content Note

This album contains views of Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi [present-day Congo, Rwanda and Burundi], along with two small photographs of Victoria Falls and three of South Africa; there are also two postcards of people identified as being from Kenya and Uganda. Subjects include portraits of indigenous peoples including the Mwami [King] of Rwanda, Mutara III Charles Rudahigwa (given as Ludahigwa in the album); Rwandan festivities featuring dancing and large-horned cattle; European colonial family life; and landscape, agriculture, shipping and heavy machinery on the African Great Lakes.

Series III. Portfolio publications and other periodical materials, 1909?-1965

Physical Description: 23 items

Scope and Content Note

This small series comprises magazines, leaflets, clippings, and other periodical materials in French, with subject matter pertaining to colonial and post-colonial Africa. Notable are the portfolios, unbound publications comprised of captioned broadsides, illustrated with large photographs and contained within a paper wrapper. These magazine-like publications concentrate on the economic development of African countries, with an educational or pedagogic slant and an intended young adult or general readership.

Box 8, Folder 1

Au désert, [1909?]

Physical Description: 1 clipping: 25 x 17 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Cartoon containing Dubonnet advertisement, with camel and European soldier in desert.

Box 8, Folder 2

Richa, Er., La mission Marchand en Afrique: La route Congo-Nil, no. 7 , Saumur (France) : C. Charier, [n.d.]

Physical Description: 1 leaflet: 23 x 35 cm.

Scope and Content Note

The leaflet, number 7 in a series, may be a wrapper for a portfolio publication which once contained further sheets, now lost. Illustrations on the title page show scenes of road-building and soldiers fighting, with a column of porters in the background. A short narrative relates Jean-Baptiste Marchand's activity in the Nile basin, which precipitated the Fashoda crisis of 1898. Series title: La mission Marchand en Afrique.

Box 8, Folder 3

One issue of Maduré-Madagascar, 1938, Paris : Les Missions Maduré-Madagascar

Scope and Content Note

One issue of a monthly magazine, No. 16 (Jan. 1938), describing missionary activity in Madagascar and in Maduré (Madurai), South India.

Box 8, Folder 4-7

Ten issues of La Documentation photographique, 1949-1965, Paris: La Documentation française, Secrétariat général du gouvernement

Scope and Content Note

Educational portfolio publications, issued unbound, containing black and white photographic reproductions with captions. Includes charts, maps and other materials. Some sheets are missing; No. 90 (L'Afrique du Nord. II. Le Maroc) is missing its wrapper.

Habitations indigènes dans la France d'outre-mer. No. 24 (1949)
L'A.E.F. [Afrique équatoriale française]: La nature et l'homme. No. 66 (1951)
L'A.E.F. [Afrique équatoriale française]: La mise en valeur. No. 67 (1951)
L'Islam. No. 77 (1952)
L'Afrique du Nord. I. Généralités. No. 89 (1952)
L'Afrique du Nord. II. Le Maroc. No. 90 (1952)
L'Afrique du Nord. III. L'Algérie (géographie économique). No. 91 (1952)
L'Afrique du Nord. IV. La Tunisie (géographie économique). No. 92 (1952)
Pays tropicaux. No. 186 (June 1958)
L'Afrique. No. 5-251 and 252 (Jan./Feb. 1965)

Box 8, Folder 8-9

Three issues and five miscellaneous sheets of La Documentation pédagogique, 1953-1957, Montmorillon (France) : Coopérative pédagogique

Scope and Content Note

Educational portfolio publications, issued unbound, containing color photographic reproductions with captions. No. 47 (Feb. 1955) concerns the Crusades, and is missing sheet 7. Many sheets and some wrappers are missing.

[Five miscellaneous sheets.] Feb. 1953-Nov. 1954
[Title unknown.] No. 47 (Feb. 1955)
Colonisation et commerce colonial au XVIIIe siècle. No. 61 (Mar. 1956)
Politique coloniale de la France au XIXe siècle. No. 72 (Apr. 1957)

Box 8, Folder 10

One issue of Pédagogie pratique : La Documentation géographique en couleurs , St. Germain-en-Laye (France) : MDI, 1955

Scope and Content Note

Educational portfolio publications, issued unbound, containing color photographic reproductions. Sheets 1 and 6 missing.

L'Afrique du Nord. No. 29 (Feb. 1955)

Box 8, Folder 11

[Portfolio], unidentified, [196-?]

Scope and Content Note

Unidentified portfolio publication with missing wrapper, concerning economic development in Africa. Sheets numbered 1-27, of which sheet 18 is missing.

Series IV. Printed images, posters, maps and original artwork, 1880-1967

Physical Description: 122 items

Scope and Content Note

Series IV. is comprised mainly of posters and other items intended for display, all of which relate in some way to the French colonies in Africa and Asia, their conquest and domination, products, and inhabitants. The bulk is printed material, with a few original artworks included. There are many examples of the striking graphic design for which the French of the period were justly famous. Cross-references have been provided in order to guide the researcher to additional images of interest.

Note: Publication dates without brackets are the actual dates printed on the item. In the event that no publication date is printed on the item, the date given in the seller's inventory is used, enclosed in brackets. Exceptions are explained in the notes.

The series is arranged by subject matter into seven subseries: IV.A. Military, 1887-1957; IV.B. Colonial expositions, 1894-1951; IV.C. Propaganda, 1880-1967; IV.D. Travel posters, 1929-1957; IV.E. Advertisements, 1892-1957; IV.F. Racist satire, 1890-ca. 1938; IV.G. Ethnographic images, 1890-1895.

Series IV.A. Military, 1887-1957

Physical Description: 43 items

Scope and Content Note

Subseries IV.A. contains military and conquest posters, prints and artwork, 1890-1943 and enlistment posters, 1924-1957.

Military and conquest posters, 1890-1943

Flat file folder 3**

Clairin, G. [Georges], [Conquest of Algeria], [1890]

Physical Description:

1 print : lithograph, color; 77 x 114 cm. on backing 83 x 119 cm.

Scope and Content Note

North African cavalry charging across the desert under green flags of Islam and one French flag; one warrior with long black hair featured in the foreground. Untitled; seller's inventory titles as "La conquête de l'Algérie."

Roll 1**

Journée de l'armée de l'Afrique et des Troupes coloniales , [Paris] : Devambez, 1917

Physical Description:

1 print : lithograph, color; 121 x 80 cm. on backing 126 x 85 cm.

Scope and Content Note

African and European soldiers, with one possibly Asian soldier, charging over a barricade, a flowering tree with pink blossoms behind them; a mask-like object with eyeholes lying to the lower right. Artist's signature illegible: seller's inventory attributes to "Cox."

See also: Government and political propaganda; Enlistment posters.

Flat file folder 2**

Jonas, [Lucien], [Dou]aumont, 1916

Physical Description:

1 print : lithograph; 105 x 74 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Tragic World War I scene of European soldier hoisting flag, surrounded by African and other European soldiers, with one fallen companion in foreground, and a stone marker with the partly obscured word "...aumont." This word refers to the Fort de Douaumont, taken from the French by the Germans during the Battle of Verdun, 25 February 1916, and retaken by the French on 2 November of the same year. Signed lithograph, number 24 of 25, dated "25 octobre 1916."

Flat file folder 3**

Le Bournous, l'association des anciens spahis : Bal, samedi 4 décembre , Paris : Publicité La Déesse, [1937]

Physical Description:

1 print : lithograph, color; 80 x 59 cm. on backing 85 x 64 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Soldier in Spahi uniform on horseback, aiming rifle. Seller's inventory lists date as 1939, but 1937 is more likely, based on the evidence of a perpetual calendar.

Flat file folder 1**

[Auger, Raoul] or Dominique, De Bournazel, 1898-1933, Paris : Grav. et Imp. Desfossés-Néogravure, 1943

Physical Description:

1 print : lithograph, color; 57 x 45 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Henri de Bournazel, colonial soldier and commander in Morocco who died at the battle of Djebel Sagho in 1933, is shown striding in foreground in military uniform with cape, with North African horsemen galloping in the background. The word "Dominique" is printed at the bottom of the artwork, as if it were the artist's name. However, Raoul Auger is cited as artist in Images et colonies ( 1993) , p. 196/197, which gives date as 1944.

Box 23*, Folder 1

[European soldier with rifle], [1887]

Physical Description:

1 print: lithograph, color; 32 x 24 cm. on backing 43 x 31 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Penciled on backing: "Tenue de campagne aux colonies (Afrique) des quatre régiments d'Infanterie de marine. 1887." Date of print is probably later than 1887.

Box 23*, Folder 2

Infanterie de Marine : instruction militaire, [Épinal (France)] : Pellerin et Cie, imp.-édit ; Imagerie d'Épinal, [1890]

Physical Description:

1 print : stereotype, color; 39 x 29 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Views of soldiers in four bands, including drill at port, the Southeast Asian and Senegalese regiments ("Tirailleurs annamites" and "Tirailleurs sénégalais"), and scenes from "L'Infanterie de Maroc à Bazeilles-Sedan," and the "Guerre de Tonkin."

Box 23*, Folder 3

Cognet, E [European soldier posing with rifle], [1895]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : ink, graphite and blue pencil; 39 x 29 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Helmeted, mustached European soldier with rifle; large "E" in blue pencil in upper right corner.

Box 23*, Folder 1

Lajoux, Edmond, [African regiment with pennant-bearer], [1895]

Physical Description:

1 print : lithograph with hand coloring; 28 x 22 cm. on backing 30 x 25 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Regiment of "Tirailleurs sénégalais" bearing flag and bayonets, with building and water tower in distance. Print has circular water stain 12.5 to 14 cm in diameter. Penciled on backing: "1895 - Le fanion d'une compagnie de Tirailleurs sénégalais."

Box 23*, Folder 2

Armée du Sultan : Troupes marocaines à cheval , Jarville-Nancy (France) : Arts Graphiques Modernes, [1904]

Physical Description:

1 print : stereotype, color; 41 x 29 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Eight rows with eight horsemen each, in North African costume. Captions include: "Pacha," "Cavalier marocain," "Caïd," "Chef de tabors."

See also: Racist satire.

Roll 4**

Hippodrome, Paris: Imprimerie Chaix; [Ateliers] Chéret, [1896]

Physical Description: 1 print : lithograph, color; 121 x 86 cm. on backing 127 x 92 cm.

Scope and Content Note

A scene of a "fantasia", or Arab cavalcade: musicians and dancers in foreground; numerous North African horsemen galloping to the right while European cavalry stands guard to the left; in the background the walls and skyline of a Moorish city.

See also: Travel posters; Military and conquest; Colonial expositions.

For postcards depicting a fantasia, see Series I, Box 2, Folder 20; see Series V, Box 5, Folder 77 for a ticket to a fantasia held during the Paris 1931 Colonial Exposition.

Roll 1**

Tinayre, Louis, Dioramas sur l'expédition de Madagascar : Palais de l'industrie, porte 5 , [Paris] : Imp. Charles Verneau, [1899]

Physical Description: 1 print : lithograph, color; 131 x 97 cm. on backing 137 x 103 cm.

Scope and Content Note

African soldier with bayonet standing on grassland, military encampment with tents behind him.

See also: Military and conquest; Colonial expositions.

Flat file folder 32**

Place des Vosges, 25 juin 1905 : Gde [Grande] fête kermesse de jour et de nuit au profit de la caisse des orphelins : Société générale de l'orphelinat des sous-agents des postes, télégraphes, téléphones et ouvriers commissionnés de France et des colonies , Paris: Imp. Ch. Wall et Cie, 1905

Physical Description: 1 print : lithograph, color; 81 x 60 cm. on backing 87 x 66 cm.

Scope and Content Note

European woman robed in blue with three European children of varying ages; a movie projector and letters sealed with wax; poles with electrical (telegraph or telephone?) wires, along which are strung medallions containing likenesses of five ethnic types: North African, Asian, European, African and Native American.

See also: Ethnographic images; Colonial expositions.

Box 24*, Folder 3

Mazenod, L., Papel de fumar Zig-Zag : la marca la más acreditada en el mundo , Toulouse; Paris: B. Sirven, imp. édit., [1920]

Physical Description: 1 photomechanical print : offset lithograph, color; 41 x 26 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Advertisement for cigarette paper, showing bearded North African man lighting cigarette.

Box 24*, Folder 3

Dandrieux, G., Ets [Établissements] Cabrol & Baissette, Fabrique de Fez : Labruguière (Tarn), France , Paris: Imp. Joseph-Charles, [1920]

Physical Description: 1 print : lithograph, color; 35 x 25 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Fez advertisement, showing five African men wearing fezzes.

See also: Racist satire.

Flat file folder 33**

La Tribune Républicaine, 27 janvier 1935 : Le secret de l'empoisonneuse ; Grand concours : Combien cette bouteille de Dubonnet contient-elle de grains de riz d'Indochine? , [S.l.] : Affiches "La Tribune", [1935]

Physical Description: 1 print : lithograph, color; 119 x 82 cm. on backing 124 x 87 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Magazine poster advertising mystery novel as well as contest with 500,000 franc prize. Illustration shows a bottle of Dubonnet partly filled with rice, a hand dropping a grain of rice into the bottle, and silhouettes of Southeast Asian rice workers.

Roll 5**

Allard, G.; Ateliers J. Fourastié, Studio Maghreb présente : Les noces de sable , [S.l.] : Impressions FOG, [1949]

Physical Description: 1 print : lithograph, color; 161 x 119 cm. on backing 173 x 125 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Kneeling female dancer with long skirt and Berber jewelry, a winged horse above her, under a multi-lobed Moorish archway. Poster information reads: "texte écrit et dit par Jean Cocteau."

See also: Racist satire.

Flat file folder 32**

Fix-Masseau, P. [Pierre], Bronzez votre moteur avec Antar-Graphite : comme moi il supportera toutes les températures , [S.l.] : Éditions Vox Publicité, [1957]

Physical Description: 1 print : lithograph, color; 79 x 60 cm. on backing 85 x 66 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Caricature of black man in mechanic's overalls holding up a container of Antar-Graphite motor oil.

See also: Racist satire.

For images thematically related to this subseries, see also: Colonial expositions, Paris, 1931: Dransy, Ferrovie francesi (Josephine Baker); Government and political propaganda: Chazeaud, Regards sur l'Afrique; Maps: Compagnie Fabre et Fraissinet; Maps: Carte touristique des escales de la régie Air Afrique; Series VI: Toys and games: Prise de Constantine en 1837; Series VI: Toys and games: Construction d'un ksour; Series VII: Sheet music: Yes! We have no bananas; Series VII: Sheet music: Sand dunes; Series VII: Sheet music: Imádom a néger zenét: Shimmy Blues

Series IV.F. Racist satire, 1890-ca. 1938

Physical Description: 7 items

Scope and Content Note

Prints with racist themes and images.

Box 24*, Folder 4

Comment se font les découvertes, [Épinal (France)] : Pellerin et Cie, imp.-édit.; Imagerie d'Épinal, [1890]

Physical Description: 1 print : stereotype, color; 39 x 29 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Comic strip about the American engineer Hyatt, who invents an unstainable fabric after a series of mishaps caused by his clumsy black servant Cambo.

Box 24*, Folder 4

Les faux sauvages, [Épinal (France)] : Pellerin et Cie, imp.-édit.; Imagerie d'Épinal, [ca. 1891]

Physical Description: 1 print: stereotype, color; 39 x 29 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Comic strip about two European men who put on blackface and impersonate natives of New Zealand, in order to participate in a circus act.

Box 24*, Folder 4

Remède contre le spleen, [Épinal (France)] : Pellerin et Cie, imp.-édit.; Imagerie d'Épinal, [1892]

Physical Description: 1 print : stereotype, color; 39 x 29 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Comic strip about an English millionaire afflicted with melancholy, who is cured after a trip to the Tropics, where he is kidnapped by natives amidst other adventures.

Box 24*, Folder 4

Types militaires, [Épinal (France)] : Pellerin et Cie, imp.-édit.; Imagerie d'Épinal, [ca. 1892]

Physical Description: 1 print : stereotype, color; 39 x 29 cm.

Scope and Content Note

Caricatures of soldiers of all nations, including "Soldat nègre."

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