Query: *
Archival Materials
Casimir Zagourski photographs
Dates:
between 1924-1935
Size:
120 Postcards ((silver gelatin prints), black & white, 9 x 14 cm.)
3 Photographic prints ((silver gelatin), black & white, 26.5 x 19.7 cm. or smaller)
3 Drawings (visual works) (black & white, 29.8 x 22.7 cm. or smaller)
3 Photographic prints ((silver gelatin), black & white, 26.5 x 19.7 cm. or smaller)
3 Drawings (visual works) (black & white, 29.8 x 22.7 cm. or smaller)
Collection ID:
EEPA.2002-005
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The photographs belong to the series of 417 images, entitled "L'Afrique qui disparaît", which Casimir Zagourski (1883-1944), a Polish photographer who lived in Léopoldville, created in the years between 1924 and 1935. He edited the series in different forms. One of the postcards includes a mistake in the captioning which could occur in the …