Man Reading Notice

Object Details

Local Note: Original Constance Stuart Larrabee Number: 16-44; Contact Sheet Number: 332089

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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.)

Archival Repository: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

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.

Scope and Contents: Man Reading Notice, 1947-48. Photographic image a man leaning on the stub of a tree and looking at typed sheets of paper, which are eviction notices, attached to a gum tree. The following caption on the reverse of a related vintage print that reads as follows: "Apius Shanga, who 'makes the skin for the Zulus,' reads the notice telling him to quit. The skins that Apius makes are worn by the Zulu mineworkers when they dress on Sundays to perform their native ward dances." This is an original caption by Constance Stuart. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1948.; Constance Stuart took this series of images in African squatters' settlements on the periphery of Johannesburg. They came to Johannesburg, the "Golden City," from all over southern Africa in hopes of finding employment. They were in constant danger of being evicted and having their settlements destroyed. They fought eviction through peaceful mass protest, which Stuart documented in many of these photographs.; There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.

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