[Photography] 30 photographs: (1-10) Series of ten photographs depicting African children
Ca. 1920, all 6.4 x 8.8 cm, all numb. 5, titled and w. the word "copyright" in lower margin in the technique, together under 2 passepartouts. Comprises: "Some locust" (photomontage), "Have some?", "Cupies", "a young Zulu", "Young South Africa", "Young Zulus", "A basket of mischief", "Zulu yeomanry", "Sweethearts" and "Good byee" (sic). (11-23) Series of 13 stereo photogr. from the USA, all 19 x 17.8 cm, ca. 1900, depicting a group of white people being served in a café by a black waiter. (24) "Zum diesjährigen Karneval, Manebach, die Stadt der Gesichtsmasken. Das Bemalen der Masken". Press photogr., 16.8 x 12 cm, w. mounted typescript text strip, stamp of Photothek Berlin and dated 15 Jan 1931. -and 5 others, incl. press photogr. depicting a.o. a group of African musicians (N.V. Vereenigde Fotobureaux, 1931) and the catching and taming of an elephant (20th Century Fox, Dark Rapture, 1938).
(total 30)