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Descriptive Summary

Title:
ACHAC Collection, 1880-ca. 1975

Collection number:
Accession no. 970031

Collector:
Association Connaissance de l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine (ACHAC)

Extent:
32 linear ft.
(31 boxes, 30 flatfiles, 5 rolls)

Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Abstract:
The ACHAC collection is iconographic in scope, and documents the impacts and influences of French colonialism, both on Africa and on France itself, as represented in images produced and distributed through the media of French popular culture as well as in the personal photographs of European residents of the African colonies. The collection relates principally to French colonialism, although some materials concern the Belgian and German colonies.

Language:
French.

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