IDNO

LS.49248.WCR

Description

A European man sitting on a chair in front of a colonial adobe building with a thatch roof. An African man stands beside the seated man, and two other African men stand on the verandah of the building. At the left of the frame is two other African men? sitting and standing beside a wooden building. [JD 7/11/2008]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Niger River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Crosse, William Henry (Dr., PMO)

Collector / Expedition

Royal Niger Company, 1886 - 1895

Date

circa 1890 - 1910

Collection Name

Crosse Collection

Source

?Robinson, Charles Henry (Rev, Canon)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

C159/ was formerly numbered 2 by T. Hoare. There are 29 lantern slides in the box.

The number in the other numbers field for this slide may correspond to the lists found in the box now numbered C161/ These lists suggest a location of Asia, (India, China, Japan) for this slide. The lists are now in Bay N/Shelf 3/Box 1/.

Place: This Place field was previously recorded as being "?Oceania; ?Europe; ?Americas; ?Australasia; ?Asia; ?Africa", but the lanternslide is part of a series that appears to be from West Africa, particularly Nigeria, Niger Delta, and Cameroon. This was confirmed by Len Pole, 28/10/2008. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 7/11/2008]

Date: Based on the style of the men’s clothing in LS.49234., the series of photographs probably dates circa 1890 - 1910. The Date field has been amended accordingly. [JD 7/11/2008]

Collection Name: This collection of lanternslides was previously unprovenanced, but matching LS.49248. to the duplicate negative N.78271.ACH2, suggests that it may be from the collection of E.B. Haddon. The Collection name has been amended to "Unmounted Haddon Collection; ?E.B. Haddon Collection" accordingly.

Collection Name: The Photographer and Collection Name field were previously recorded as "?E.B. Haddon Collection", but matching this negative to the same series of other negatives, N.74244.ACH2 to N.74249.ACH2 and N.78251.ACH2 to N.78256.ACH2, and lanternslides, LS.82424 to LS.82491, it shows that the photographs were taken by William Henry Crosse, Principal Medical Officer, Royal Niger Company, 1886 - 1895. The Photographer and Collection Name fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 13/01/2014]

Source: The Source field was previously unprovenaced, but the photographs may have been donated to the MAA by Rev. Charles Henry Robinson, who published some of Crosse's photographs in the following publication. The Source field has been provisionally amended accordingly. [JD 13/01/2014]

Bibliographical Reference: Nigeria: Our Latest Protectorate,
By Charles Henry Robinson M.A, Canon Missioner of Ripon and Lecturer in Hausa in the University of Cambridge (London, Horace Marshall and Son, 1900), pp.v-vi
"I am indebted to the Rt. Hon. Sir Geo. Goldie for permission to use
several photographs taken in connection with the work of the Royal Niger Company, also to Dr. W. H. Crosse, for many years Medical Officer of the Company, for the loan of many photographs taken by himself, and to Miss C. M. Stiff, of Cheltenham, for preparing several drawings of native articles." [JD, 13/01/2014]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 7/11/2008]