Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Anarchic rural development, Matete, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1980
Africa; Congo (Democratic Republic)
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.
Accompanying text reads, " Anarchic rural "development." Despite efforts by BEAU to survey and supervise the area, plots have been illegally sold by chefs de localite. The pictures were taken from the top of a termite hill.".
- Collection
- Wyatt MacGaffey photographs
- Catalog date
- 1980
- Recorded places
- Africa; Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- MacGaffey, Wyatt
- Format and extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 2.5 x 3.5 cm.); 1 Photographic print (b&w, 9 x 12 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2003-004, Item EEPA 2003-040079-28
Collection: Wyatt MacGaffey photographs