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a piece of paper that has a stamp on itthree black and white photos of people standing in front of an airplanetwo old black and white photos of men standing in front of a planetwo black and white photos of a man on a motorcycle and a man on a horsetwo old black and white photos of a man and a womantwo old black and white photos of a group of peopletwo old black and white photos of a man and a womantwo old black and white photos of a woman with a hat on her headtwo old black and white photos of a man and a womantwo pictures of a thatched house in the middle of the picturetwo black and white photos of a man on a horse and a man on a horsetwo old black and white photos of a woman with ear ringstwo old black and white photos of a woman hanging from a treetwo pictures of a castle in the middle of the picturetwo old black and white photos of a woman in a dress and a man in a turban standing in front of a group of peopletwo black and white photographs of a man and a woman sitting on a benchtwo black and white photos of a woman with a net in her handtwo pictures of a train on the tracks and a train on the trackstwo pictures of a man riding an elephant in the watertwo black and white photos of a woman with a lion in front of hertwo old black and white photographs of a woman with a large nose ringtwo black and white photographs of a man and a woman with a swordtwo pictures of a woman with a knitted hat and a knitted hatthree black and white photos of a woman sitting next to another womantwo black and white photographs of a man and a woman in front of a buildingtwo black and white photos of a man doing a trick on a polean old black and white photo of a group of men standing next to each other
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132 - Casimir ZAGOURSKI, photographer in Leopoldville (1883–1944)
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Estimate €2,500 - €3,000
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Casimir ZAGOURSKI, photographer in Leopoldville (1883–1944) ‘Africa Disappearing’, c. 1930 Album in-4° (26.5 x 20 cm), period binding, comprising 81 leaves on which the following are mounted on the front in notches, facing each other. A collection of 168 prints in perfect condition, including 161 period silver gelatine prints in postcard format, and, separate from the album, 7 unmounted postcards on the theme of African diseases. Silver gelatin prints in 9 x 14 cm format, with captions and numbering on the negatives on the front. Photographer’s credit and title printed on the reverse: ‘PHOTOGR. C. ZAGOURSKI. LEOPOLDVILLE’ and ‘AFRICA THAT IS DISAPPEARING!’ Grand Chief, Mangbetu Chief, Mangbetu women’s grooming, Mangbetu chief’s wife, Mang- betu hairstyles, Mangbetu dances, Mangbetu skull deformation (5), Mangbetu – Ekibondo village, Mangbe- tu warriors, Mangbetu art, Ituri types, Ruanda – a Mutudzi, Ruanda – a chief’s hut, Ruanda – dancer Watudzi, Ruanda dancers, Ruanda – Wautou dancers, Ruanda – female dancers, Urundi types, Bateke chief, male smoker, female smoker, musician, King Lukengo, Lukengo’s family, Bakuba dignitary, Bakuba masks, Bakuba blacksmiths, Lukambo pottery, Bakuba wood-carrier, Sankuru woman in mourning, Lusambo midwives, Lusambo figure, Bakamputu dancers, Equateur figure, ivory expedition, elephants, young gorilla, hippopotamus, A.E.F. types of Sarra, A.E.F. circumcision ritual, A.E.F. dancers in Ippy, A.E.F. xylophone among the Sarra, A.E.F. maternity, A.E.F. Ouango water-carrier, Women of Chad, Miscellaneous Congolese hairstyles, elephantiasis (4), goitre (2), sleeping sickness (1) This album may have belonged to one of the pioneering aviators of the Compagnie Générale Transsaharienne who crossed the Sahara in the 1930s, as evidenced at the start of the album by a telegram reporting the refuelling of an aeroplane: ‘Arrived at midday at Bidon-V; leaving once refuelling is complete. Best regards to all, Noir’ and five photographs of the aircraft and its crew. ‘Bidon-V’ was one of the first road and air staging posts in the Sahara. At the time of the 1930 Mediterranean-Niger Saharan Rally Mediterranean–Niger Rally, as the crossing of the Tanezrouft could not be completed in a single stage, the General Government of Algeria decided to set up a temporary camp at Bidon-V equipped with wireless telegraphy.
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About the sale The Paul BENARROCHE Collection and others | Old and modern photographs | Part I
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Auction time 10/22/2026 at 2:00 PM
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