Black and white photograph

Museum number:
13-6947
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21130006947
Description:
A black-and-white photographic print of 5 white men, wearing pithe helmets, in an open truck in fron of a building marked "Kodak House." One of the men is holding an American flag and the British flag. Several black men, most of them in suits and hats, are standing on the sidewalk next to the truck. This photograph might have been taken in Cape Town, South Africa at the beginning of Paul Hoefler's African Expedition.
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
ca. 1930
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white prints (photographs) and Trucks
Department:
Still and motion photography
Dimensions:
width 5 inches and height 8 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Black and white photograph, accession number 13-6947, described as A black-and-white photographic print of 5 white men, wearing pithe helmets, in an open truck in fron of a building marked "Kodak House." One of the men is holding an American flag and the British flag. Several black men, most of them in suits and hats, are standing on the sidewalk next to the truck. This photograph might have been taken in Cape Town, South Africa at the beginning of Paul Hoefler's African Expedition.

Tools