Uganda photographs

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.

This collection is comprised of a photographic album, dating from 1897-1903, that includes images of Momabassa, and Frere Town in Kenya and the Ankole, Toro and Mengo regions of Uganda and some locations in between. African peoples depicted include the Waniki and Banma. Subjects include the French Roman Catholic mission station at Budu, Mengo Church, Mengo Hospital, CMS station in Koki, the Koki Roman Catholic station, House and enclosure of the King of Koki, missionaries and their families, and wives and children of chiefs. Some of the figures depicted include Reverend H. Clayton, Reverend W. H. R. Leakey, Reverend Ernest Millar, missionaries, including Miss Walker, Miss Chadwick, and Miss Brown; Sir Apolo Kaggwa; Kamswaga, King of Koki, and Kahara, King of Akole as well as local chiefs, Lieutenant Hobart; A. C. Hattersley, and Archibald Walker.

Collection

Uganda photographs

Catalog date

1897-1903

Recorded places

Africa; Victoria, Lake; Ankole (Uganda); Uganda; Mombassa (Kenya); Frere Town (Kenya); Kenya

Cataloged creator or photographer

Church Missionary Society. Uganda Mission

Recorded subjects

Missionaries -- Africa

Format and extent

22 Photographic prints ((dupe prints), black & white, 8 x 10 in.); 170 Negatives (photographic) ((dupe negs), black & white, 4 x 5 in.)

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