Object Details
- Local Numbers
- F 5 SAF 3.1 EE 59
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 57938 78
- Frame value is 10.
- Slide No. F 5 SAF 3.1 EE 59
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- South Africa
- Topic
- Musicians
- Dance
- Mod. architecture/cityscape -- Photographs
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / South Africa
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1959
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 6171
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides (photographs)
- Color slides
- Collection Citation
- Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Color slides
- Scope and Contents
- Original caption reads, "Alexandra Ragtime Boys playing their swinging music at corner of Von Brandis and Pritchard streets in Johannesburg, with a crowd of blacks, whites and colored listening. Group of seven men includes two guitar players, a racking case base player, singers and dancers. Leader is boy in green sweater, Leslie Modupi, 16, who plays guitar. Other band member playing guitar behind his neck is Alex Macheru, 19." [Master Catalogue: Literary Africa. Eliot Elisofon. 1959. K77, 30-34; K78, 9-14].
- This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871016247-2
