Two Blind Men Making Baskets

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.

Two Blind Men Making Baskets, 1948. Photographic image of two blind men making baskets. One is fitting a lid to his straw basket. The other is sitting against a wall with a straw basket in his lap and a cutting tool in one hand. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1948. Constance Stuart took these series of photographs in a clinic and educational institution for blind Africans called Ezenzelini on the outskirts of Johannesburg. It was founded by Reverend and Mrs. Blaxall. The blind lived and worked at the institution getting medical treatment and learning crafts. There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.

Collection

Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection

Archival grouping

Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / Ezenzilini School for the Blind, Johannesburg, South Africa

Catalog date

1948

Recorded places

Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg (South Africa)

Cataloged creator or photographer

Larrabee, Constance Stuart

Format and extent

1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.); 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)

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