Black and white negative

Museum number:
15-32391
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
KEN-5, Neg.118 (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4054 and Acc.4115
Description:
4" x 5" Negative. Three boats at the Old Port of Mombasa. Hoefler's original description: "Old port of Mombasa. Persians and Arabs still sail the seas in wooden ships, vessels that were very old when the first steamship had its trial. Salt, hides, dried fish, dates, ivory, rugs and wattle bark are carried where the market beckons. A few thousand miles means nothing to these hardy soldiers.
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Mombasa, Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Old port of Mombasa
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1928-1929
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Black and white negative, accession number 15-32391, described as 4" x 5" Negative. Three boats at the Old Port of Mombasa. Hoefler's original description: "Old port of Mombasa. Persians and Arabs still sail the seas in wooden ships, vessels that were very old when the first steamship had its trial. Salt, hides, dried fish, dates, ivory, rugs and wattle bark are carried where the market beckons. A few thousand miles means nothing to these hardy soldiers.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Black and white negative, accession number 15-32391, described as 4" x 5" Negative. Three boats at the Old Port of Mombasa. Hoefler's original description: "Old port of Mombasa. Persians and Arabs still sail the seas in wooden ships, vessels that were very old when the first steamship had its trial. Salt, hides, dried fish, dates, ivory, rugs and wattle bark are carried where the market beckons. A few thousand miles means nothing to these hardy soldiers.

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