Object Details
- Local Numbers
- O 2 NIG 27.2 EE 59
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 58482 71
- Frame value is 3.
- Slide No. O 2 NIG 27.2 EE 59
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Nigeria
- Topic
- Education
- Mod. architecture/cityscape -- Photographs
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Nigeria
- 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 12098
- 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 title reads, "Scene outside Trenchard Hall at University College, Ibadan, part of the Foundation Day celebrations on November 17, 1959. We would call it a graduation ceremony. This was the Eleventh Foundation Day anniversary, and 136 students graduated. In the pictures, before the academic procession goes into Trenchard Hall for the graduation ceremony at University College, Ibadan. First group to file is made up of assistant lecturers; second column is headed by the registrar and bursar followed by members of the Senate; then the council members go in; then the mace, then the Governor General and the principal walking together." [Elisofon field notes, August 1959-December 1959]
- 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-1536870822481-1536871015746-0
