Object Details
- Local Note
- Original Constance Stuart Larrabee Number: 15-10
- Contact Sheet Numbers: Spool 1
- Creator
- Larrabee, Constance Stuart
- Collection Photographer
- Larrabee, Constance Stuart
- Place
- Africa
- South Africa
- Johannesburg (South Africa)
- Creator
- Larrabee, Constance Stuart
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- Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection
- Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / Church services, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Sponsor
- The cataloging of the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection was supported by a grant from The Smithsonian Women's Committee.
- Extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
- 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
- 1 Photographic print ((dupe print)., b&w, 8 x 10 in.)
- Date
- 1946
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-061543
- Type
- Archival materials
- Negatives (photographic)
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection, EEPA 1998-006, 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
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- Church Leader With His Elders, 1946. A young male church leader is standing in a church behind a table. There is a male elder standing nearby. On the lower step there are several women sitting behind a table and two men sitting on a bench to the right of the women. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1948.
- Constance Stuart documented church services, processions, and baptisms in several African churches. A 1938 series of photographs shows a baptism near Pretoria. In 1946, she spent time with several congregations in the Johannesburg area. Some of these photographs were published in Bengt Sundlker's book "Bantu Prophets in South Africa" (first published by Lutterworth Press, London 1948).
- There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1539205658568-1539205663045-4
