Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Crawford, MAJ
1897
Africa; Nigeria
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
A group of prisoners captured in Benin, Nigeria. Photograph by J.A. Green, Nigeria, 1897. Original caption reads; "The officer in white is Major Crawford, who was afterwards treacherously murdered by Natives, just after the occupation of Benin City, West Africa.".
- Collection
- W. H. Himbury photographs
- Catalog date
- 1897
- Recorded places
- Africa; Nigeria
- Format and extent
- 1 Photographic print (albumen., b&w, 13.6 x 20.7 cm.)
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1995-024, Item EEPA 1995-240063
Collection: W. H. Himbury photographs