de Chetelat (Enzo) papers

Bio/Personal

box 1

Autobiography: No Stone Unturned: the Travels and Experiences of a Mining Geologist (typescript, ca. 667 pages). 1970s

Biographic Material

Scope and Content

Includes personal and professional files, with items relating to assignments, including related paperwork. Similar items pertaining to specific countries are housed in the Travel Materials series of the collection.

box 2

General

Autobiography – Materials relating to

Biographical Information

Birth Certificate

Business Cards

de Chetelat, Adrienne [daughter]

de Chetelat, Eleanor [wife]

Chetelat family – including ancestors

Columbia University (New York)

Cruises

Death Certificate

Documents – Miscellany

Foreign Economic Administration

Mineral Collection

Passports and Applications

Travel Orders - Military

U.S. Embassy – Paris

Université de Nancy

Université de Paris

West African Iron Syndicate

Will

Correspondence

Alphabetical

box 3

Betti, Maria Pia

de Chetelat – Eleanor to Enzo

de Chetelat – Enzo to Eleanor

Hanmer, Adrienne de Chetelat (daughter)

La Gorce, Gilbert (close family friend)

de la Rue, Edgar Aubort (old school colleague)

Vaurs, Roger (French Foreign Office colleague, who accompanied him)

Chronological

Scope and Content

Handwritten and typewritten letters, picture postcards with notes, some business/professional but mostly from friends around the world; some to/from wife Eleanor and other family members; early postcards ca. 1903-1910 to/from unknown parties. A few letters are accompanied by photographs.

1903-1960 [some years lacking]

box 4

1961-1982, n.d.

box 5

Diaries Journals

Scope and Content

Mainly notebooks and day planners, 1940s-1970s, most arranged by year; several notebooks of jotted notes and daily entries

box 6

Writings by Enzo

Scope and Content

Articles in journals; many in whole journals, some offprints, mainly on geology of areas such as Dahomey, French Guinea, and Upper Volta, in West Africa. Arranged chronologically, 1927-1947, n.d. Also, typescript on slavery, 1951.

Photographic Materials

Albums/Notebooks

Scope and Content

1061 b/w prints in 8 albums

box 7

Dahomey [light blue notebook] 1925-1927

Other Descriptive Information

29 b/w prints, incl. Enzo, French government officials, local officials, local men and women; some are copies of original prints in Dahomey loose prints folder.

Dahomey [blue notebook] 1926-1927

Other Descriptive Information

41 b/w prints, some laid in, incl. Enzo, colleagues, local inhabitants, inselberg, baobab tree, countryside.

Far East [brown album] 1929-1930

Other Descriptive Information

139 b/w prints, incl. Enzo and colleagues, local men and women, Angkor Wat, Bangkok, Sumatra (Brastago, Lake Toba, Batak villages), Malaya (Penang, Taiping, Ipoh – Jelapang Mine, Maru Mine); also a few images of Egypt, Pyramids and Sphinx, prob. On return voyage

box 8

French Guinea [black portfolio] 1931-1932

Other Descriptive Information

7 b/w copy prints, local men and women, 1931-1932.

French Guinea and Senegal [green album, assembled by Eleanor de Chetelat September 1931-July 1932

Other Descriptive Information

252 b/w prints, a few laid in, incl. boat trip to and from, Enzo, friends and colleagues, local men,women, and children (Bassari, Fulani, and others), villages, countryside, rock formations, placer mining, Enzo with local hunters and game; locations include Loos Island, Kakilima, Kinkon Falls, Youkounkoun, Coniagui, Tambacounda, Diamatou, Akoul; also a few images from French Sudan and Mali; some images are duplicated in the in French Guinea loose files.

French Guinea [wood grain album] 1934-1935

Other Descriptive Information

316 b/w prints, incl. Enzo, colleagues and friends, local men, women, and children (Bovés, Fulani, Bassari, and others), villages, dances, countryside, rock formations, laterite (iron) deposits, iron smelting furnaces and blacksmiths, prospecting, Enzo with hunters and game, termite mounds, road construction ; locations include Conakry, Kolountou, Youkounkoun, Negaré, Boffa, Cape Vergas, Loos Island; also a few images from Senegal and Portuguese Guinea; some images are duplicated in French Guinea loose files.

box 9

Indo China – incl. Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam (Hué, Kontoum Plateau) [grey pattern album] 1929-1930

Other Descriptive Information

248 b/w prints, a few laid in, incl. Enzo, friends and colleagues, local men, women, and children (Kha Boleven, Kha Kouet, Halang, and others), villages, countryside, rock formations, panning for gold, gold prospecting, boats, crocodiles, Enzo with local hunters and game; locations include Sékong, Thong Asa, Kontum – Annam, Sesan River, Hué; some images are duplicated in Laos and Vietnam loose files.

Laos [brown notebook] 1929-1930

Other Descriptive Information

29 b/w prints, incl. Enzo and colleagues, local men and women, and children (Lové, Halang, Djarai, Khas), gold prospecting, iron works, grave; locations include Sesan River, Attopeu Province, Kontum Province, Bolevens Plateau, Sékong River; some maps laid in; many images are copies of prints in the Indo China album.

Glass Negatives

Scope and Content

b/w, ca. 3 ¼" x 4 ¼", about 12 per box, unknown how many have corresponding prints, loose or in albums. Some boxes also contain film negatives and 1 box has a few b/w prints. Arranged by place/topic.

box 10

French Guinea circa 1925-1927?

Other Descriptive Information

1 box, incl. iron smelting

French Infantry 1917

Other Descriptive Information

1 box, WWI

French Indochina circa 1929-1930

Other Descriptive Information

9 boxes, many Laos, and surrounding areas – incl. Malaya, Cambodia, and Sumatra

Unidentified /comingled

Other Descriptive Information

1 box

Negatives

Scope and Content

Nearly all 35 mm b/w, in cannisters, boxes, and rolls [many seem to be of family/friends; correlation to prints unknown]

incl. Calumet Camp, Conakry, France, Monsey (NY), and Rome 1936-1938

Libya 1953

Korea 1947

French Equatorial Africa (AEF) 1949-circa 1956

Conakry (French Guinea) 1950

incl. Cambodia 1956-1958

Nepal 1960

Unidentified undated

Prints and Negatives - Loose

Scope and Content

About 2500+ images, mainly black and white prints and some negatives, multiple sizes; a few color. Many in photographic envelopes with notes by Chetelat. Some dups. Many images of local inhabitants. Arranged by name/place. Many undated.

box 11

Albania/Greece 1923-1924

Other Descriptive Information

24 b/w prints, Enzo and the Albanian Revolution of 1923 (some dups) and Greece, 1924 and 1 later color print)

Algeria 1950, 1954

Other Descriptive Information

3 b/w copy print, Enzo riding camel, near Abalessa, Hoggar Mountains

American Samoa 1939

Other Descriptive Information

8 b/w prints, Enzo and Adrienne, young women and Native Police, Pago Pago.

Andorra 1924

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, street scene

Antigua circa 1920s-1930s

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, friends at English Harbour

Belgium 1946

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, Bruges

Calumet Camp (Upper Saranac Lake, NY) circa 1937

Other Descriptive Information

3 b/w prints, 21 b/w negs, 1 b/w picture postcard, Chetelat family and friends, buildings, lake, woods

Cambodia 1929-1930; 1955-1957

Other Descriptive Information

60+ b/w prints and picture postcards, and 100+ negatives, incl. Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh, temples, coronation of King and Queen, mining for zircons

Cameroon 1950

Other Descriptive Information

3 b/w and 5 color prints, incl. local chiefs, Kirdi couple from Mokolo

Canada (Rouyn Mines at Buffalo) 1928-1929

Other Descriptive Information

40 b/w prints and 25 b/w negs, Enzo and Eleanor Chetelat, other people, dogs, skis, hunting, and log cabins

Canada 1928

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print and 12 b/w negs, people, dogs, and log cabins at Buffalo Rouyn Mines

Ceylon 1929, 1950

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4 b/w and 2 color prints, including boats and uniformed guard

Chad circa 1951, 1960

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3 b/w prints and 2 color prints, local people and livestock

Chetelat, Adrienne circa 1936-1970

Other Descriptive Information

ca. 30 b/w and 1 color, mostly as a child and young woman

Chetelat, Enzo and Eleanor 1920s-1970s

Other Descriptive Information

125+ b/w prints, some b/w negs and color prints, many together and with friends/relatives

Chetelat Family circa 1860-1940 s

Other Descriptive Information

ca. 20 images, including early tintypes and cdvs

Chetelat Friends

Other Descriptive Information

ca. 25 b/w prints and negs, and color prints, most identified

Congo (French / Brazzaville) circa 1951

Other Descriptive Information

2 b/w prints, hermaphrodite

Corsica 1931

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, sailing ship

Croatia (Dalmatia) 1953

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, women dancing

Dahomey 1925-1927

Other Descriptive Information

66 b/w prints and 6 b/w negatives, a few dups, many of Enzo, local officials, local men and women, animals, hunting

Djibouti 1950

Other Descriptive Information

4 b/w prints and 2 b/w negs, local inhabitants, prostitutes, and tents

Ecuador 1971

Other Descriptive Information

2 color prints, rockslide on train tracks

Egypt 1929

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, Enzo, Eleanor, and pyramids

Finland 1960

Other Descriptive Information

6 b/w prints, Enzo and colleagues, International Geological Congress excursion, reindeer, locomotive, horse drawn vehicle, Enzo and elderly woman

France 1931, 1952

Other Descriptive Information

1 cdv, portrait of man, from the 1907 International Exposition; 24 b/w prints and13 b/w negs (not all the same), mostly buildings from various parts of France, 1931; 1 b/w print, homemade airplane, ca. 1935;1 b/w print, near Etampes, Paris, 1952; 2 color prints, Paris n.d.

French Equatorial Africa circa 1951

Other Descriptive Information

2 b/w prints and 3 color prints, Enzo and colleagues on local ferry, mining/panning, and rock painting

French Guinea circa 1927-1951

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400+ b/w prints and negs, incl. images of Enzo, colleagues and friends, local men, women and children, villages, countryside, hunting, local iron smelting

French Indochina circa 1920s, 1930

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, [Eleanor?], woman and children, [ca. 1920s]; 2 b/w prints, Enzo, Eleanor, and friends, 1930

Fulani (West African ethnic group) 1955

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w prints, women and child

Ghana 1927; 1963-1965

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, landing at Accra, 1927; 1 b/w print, All Souls Day procession at El Mina, 1963; 1 b/w print, Cape [?], 1965

Grand Junction, CO circa 1970s

Other Descriptive Information

1 color Polaroid of African artifacts on upper floor landing

Greece 1924, 1958; 1965-1966

Other Descriptive Information

2 b/w prints, man in traditional garb, excavation, 40+ b/w negs and color prints, Enzo, Eleanor, and local sites

Haiti 1954

Other Descriptive Information

2 b/w prints, Enzo at the beach and plantation

India 1956

Other Descriptive Information

4 b/w negs in negative wallet

Indonesia (incl. Bali) 1951, 1957, 1969

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print and 1 b/w neg, local women, ; 2 b/w prints, local inhabitants and festival 1 color print, women and child

Iran 1958?

Other Descriptive Information

7 b/w prints, local inhabitants and ruins

Italy circa 1948, 1958, 1961

Other Descriptive Information

1 color print, horse drawn hearse; 16 b/w prints and 7 b/w negs mostly rural and village scenes

Ivory Coast 1925

Other Descriptive Information

2 b/w prints, boats on coast, Bassam street scene

Korea [South] circa 1948

Other Descriptive Information

49 b/w picture postcards/prints and17 b/w negs, Enzo with U.S. Army, at Chunchon near 38th Parallel, Korean families, men in traditional dress, Samchok Mine, people and scenes of Seoul

Laos 1927-1930; 1957

Other Descriptive Information

100+ b/w prints and a few b/w negs, mostly local inhabitants of Tonkin Province and Attopeu Province (Lové ethnic group), including hunters, women with goiters, rivers, panning for gold, railroad

Libya 1942; 1957-1958; 1969

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, 5 b/w prints and 11 b/w negs, countryside and ancient ruins, 15 color prints, Enzo and Eleanor, Leptis, Tripoli

Madagascar 1950, 1964, 1972

Other Descriptive Information

5 b/w prints, 2 b/w negs, 1 color print, Enzo and colleagues/friends, shooting rapids, 1 color print, taxi, 2 color prints, taxis

Malaya 1930

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w picture postcard, Malays and crocodile

box 12

Mali 1933-1935

Other Descriptive Information

4 b/w prints, leopard, women panning for gold, Eleanor and silk cotton tree

Monsey, NY (Chetelat home) circa 1936-1970

Other Descriptive Information

8 b/w and 1 color print, 40+ negs, incl. Enzo, Adrienne, family and friends

Morocco 1924-1925; 1933, 1945

Other Descriptive Information

23 b/w prints and 6 b/w negs, Enzo and friends, Berber village, mines, event with charging horses, 13 color prints, 2 b/w prints, and 1 b/w neg, Marrakech

Nepal 1960

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59 b/w prints, incl. Kathmandu inhabitants, Tibetan refugees, erotic Statues, everyday activities; 6 strips of b/w 35mm contact prints

New Caledonia 1939-1941; 1951

Other Descriptive Information

ca. 150 b/w prints and negatives, 4 b/w prints, boats, corralling cattle, Enzo with local people, Adrienne as a child, local scenery, local men, women and children, houses and other buildings, mining, old former convict, ranching convict, ranching

New York State 1936

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w prints, Adirondacks

Niger 1926, 1951

Other Descriptive Information

3 b/w prints, Enzo, colleagues, and Fulani, 3 color prints, well and cattle, camel caravan

Nigeria 1927, circa 1953

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, Badagri; ; 2 color prints, Pagan women, central part of the country

Norway 1921

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, Enzo at glacier, 7 b/w negs

Oubangui-Chari (now Central African Republic) 1941; 1951-1952

Other Descriptive Information

4 b/w prints, local inhabitants, panning [for gold?], 5 color prints, local inhabitants

Paracel Islands (off Vietnam coast) circa early 1950s

Physical Description: 10 b/w prints, Enzo and Foreign Legion

Portugal 1954

Other Descriptive Information

7 b/w prints, Enzo and local sites and inhabitants

Portuguese Guinea 1935

Other Descriptive Information

2 b/w prints, geological site , Enzo and colleagues

Portuguese Timor (now East Timor) 1965

Other Descriptive Information

2 b/w prints, local women and houses

Romania 1922

Other Descriptive Information

3 small b/w prints, Enzo and local inhabitants

St. Helena circa 1860-1900

Other Descriptive Information

1 colored cabinet card, Napoleon's residence

Sardinia 1955

Other Descriptive Information

16 b/w prints and 14 b/w negs, Enzo, local sites, procession, and inhabitants, many in costume

Senegal 1925-1938

Other Descriptive Information

8 b/w prints, baobob tree, Enzo, Dakar hospital staff and other patients, friends at beach, Dakar

Soviet Union 1960, 1978

Other Descriptive Information

14 b/w prints, Leningrad, 1960; 2 b/w and 3 color prints, Leningrad

Sumatra 1930

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3 b/w prints, rice paddies? traditional house

Syria 1966

Other Descriptive Information

4 color prints and 12 color negatives of Enzo and Eleanor at Palmyra and the Krak des Chevaliers (Crusaders' Castle)

Togo (with some Dahomey and Ghana) 1927; 1963-1964

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w, French official and local inhabitants, 1927; 100+ b/w and some color prints and negatives, mostly of Enzo and Togolese colleagues, during his UN assignment there, also local men and women, and village

Trinidad 1933

Other Descriptive Information

1 b/w print, man standing in Pitch Lake

Tunisia circa 1937-1961

Other Descriptive Information

80+ b/w prints, some b/w negs, incl. Enzo and colleagues, Tunis, Maktar, local inhabitants, desert, camels, oases, Tuareg, ruins, salt hill, boats and fishermen, Cap Bon, Pantelleria Island

Turkey 1952

Other Descriptive Information

1 cdv (ca. 1890s) and 11 b/w prints, incl. scenes of Cappadocia

Upper Volta 1926

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2 b/w prints, both of Enzo and local inhabitants, with antelope, Atacora Mountains

Vietnam 1930

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16 b/w prints (some dups), Kontum Province, Central and East Annam, Djarai inhabitants, incl. group of warriors, woman with goiter, prospecting for alluvial gold, Enzo and local men drinking rice wine, cart in Saigon

Virgin Islands 1934, 1936

Other Descriptive Information

11b/w prints and 10 b/w negs, incl. St. Thomas (Canaan), incl.friends, baby,house, 19c hotel

Unidentified 1920s-1960s

Other Descriptive Information

50+ b/w prints and negs, and color prints

Slides 1938-1974

Scope and Content

About 5,500 color slides, organized by country. In some cases, more than one trip to a given country. Most slides found in carousels or other containers. Sleeved, mostly in the order found in the carousels. Most have good identification. Vast majority of slides are Kodachrome, with some Anscochrome and Ektachrome.

box 13

Personal

Other Descriptive Information

There also are images with Enzo, family and friends scattered throughout the slide series. These had been filed with individual countries and remain there.

Enzo 1946-1959

Other Descriptive Information

12 images

Family and Friends 1940-1969

Other Descriptive Information

18 images, incl. Adrienne

Monsey, NY 1948-1970

Other Descriptive Information

16 images, incl. artifacts brought back from travels

Aden (now Yemen) 1964

Other Descriptive Information

3 images, incl. boats, view of coast

Algeria

9 images, incl. coast, Roman ruins, sponges, friends 1945

64 images, incl. El Golea, Hoggar, Ghardaia, Tamanrasset, Tuareg Warriors and women 1950

3 images, Hoggar 1951

Andorra

6 images, incl. streets, people 1961

Australia 1965

131 images, incl. Northern Territory (Bathurst Island, Melville Island, Darwin), Western Australia (Kalgoorie), Tasmania (bush, Hobart, Zeeham, Mt. Lyell), Melbourne (Port Philip), Perth, Queensland (Dimbulah, near Almaden, Cairns, Green Island), San Remo, Banbury

Austria

2 images, incl. Seefeld 1950-1951

2 images, woman brick carrier and horse-drawn cart 1960

6 images, incl. Styria, transportation 1962

Barbados

2 images, street scenes 1968

Brazil

208 images, incl. churches and other buildings, gold and diamond mining, street and rural scenes, local inhabitants; locations incl. Minas Gerais (Ouro Preto, Belo Horizonte, Diamanina), Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Bahia state (Salvador), Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso state (Araguaya River, Terarape River), Para state (Xingo River, Smoke Falls area 1967

British Honduras [now Belize]

16 images, incl. Mayan ruins, huts, Belize (city, Governor's palace, port, river), mangroves, palmetto swamp 1968

Brunei

11 images, incl. Sultan, women 1969

Bulgaria

9 images, incl. Sofia, Plodiv, Koprivshtica 1966

Cambodia

1 image, local inhabitants 1946

1 image, Chinese playing board game 1950

321 images, incl. gold mining, zircon mining and cutting, various modes of transportation, street and rural scenes; locations incl. Angkor Thom, Angkor Wat, Mekong River, Phnom Chisor, Phnom Dek, Phnom Penh, Sambor, Sesan River, Vat Bati 1955-1958

Cameroon

20 images, incl. Banyo, N'gaoundéré 1950-1951

4 images, Garoua 1954

Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]

142 images, locations incl. Kataragama, Kandy, Sigiriya, Polonnarawa, Harabarana, Anuradhapura, Haputale, Nuwara Eliya, Yapahuwa, Colombo 1969

Chad

3 images, incl. Fort Lamy (Ndjamena) 1963

China

4 images, Shangai 1948

Congo (Belgian Congo)

6 images, Elisabethville, Leopoldville 1953

Congo (French/Brazzaville)

1 image, Oubanghi 1950

1 image, Brazzaville 1951

1 image, Barzzaville (Djoué Dam), Franceville (plane) 1954

Costa Rica

6 images, incl. Cartago market, San Jose police band, Irazu volcano

Cyprus

63 images, incl. Famagusta, Nicosia, Kyrenia (Hilarion Castle, harbor, Bellepays Abbey, quarrie 1953

Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic and Slovakia]

20 images, incl. Prague, Bohemia 1962

24 images, incl. Slovakia (Kremnica, Zudlen, Banska Bystrica, Tatra), 1968

Dahomey [now Benin]

3 images, shop sign, local inhabitants, colleagues 1963

Domincan Republic

6 images, incl. Diudad Trujillo, Easter procession, Adrienne 1954

Ecuador

49 images, incl. railroad landslide, Quito, Andes, San Domingo, Otavalo, Pablo Lake 1971

Egypt

15 images, incl. Cairo, Memphis 1954

El Salvador

12 images, incl. coffee plantation, San Salvador, volcano, sugar Plantation 1968

Fiji

2 images, policeman, local women 1939

1 image, local woman 1940

French Guinea [Guinea since 1958]

37 images, incl. Alcatraz Island, Fulani (people), Fouta Djallon 1938

5 images, incl. Bassari women 1939

7 images, incl. Conakry 1952

French Guyana

19 images, incl. several of convicts, local inhabitants, and locations such as Cayenne (capital and port city), 1944

Galapagos [part of Ecuador]

80 images, incl. Abemarle Island, James Island , Tagus Cove, Bartolome Island, Fernandina Island, Espinoza Point, Tower Island, Hood Island, Santa Cruz Island, FloreanaIsland, Playa Island, North Seymour Island, Daphne Island 1971

French Polynesia

28 images, incl. Bora Bora, Rangiroa, Society Islands, Tahiti 1965

Ghana

6 images, incl. Elmina 1963

Greece

38 images, incl. Crete, Santorini, Athens 1967

Guadaloupe

10 images, incl. Basse Terre, Point a Pitre, sugar plantation, local inhabitants, market 1944

Guatemala

1 image, aerial view 1968

Haiti

box 14

25 images, incl. Cristopher's Citadel, Sans Souci, Cap Haitien, Port au Prince, Milot, Haitian army, distillery, countryside 1954

Holland [Netherlands]

5 images, incl. war damage 1946

Honduras

23 images, incl. Teguciagalpa, San Lorenzo Port, poster, basalt 1968

Hong Kong

10 images, mostly New Territory 1955-1956

18 images, incl. Aberdeen, street scenes 1959-1960

India

9 images, Calcutta 1951

91 images, incl. Jaipur, Amber, Delhi (Red Fort, horse band, bagpipers ), Bombay, Ellora, Agra, Taj Mahal, Daulatabad, Ajanta, Elephanta, Aurangabad, Fatehpur Sikri 1956

32 images, incl. Darjeeling, railroad, Tibetan refuge, Sikkim, W. Bengal, copper mine, road construction, Tiger Hill – Himalayas 1964

141 images, incl. Assam (Kaziganga Reserve, Shillong, Khasi area, Bhutham pilgrims), Pondicherry, Khajuraho, New Delhi, Orissa(Konarak, Puri), Benares (now Varanasi), Mahabali, Madras, Kerala 1965

Iran

68 images, locations incl. Isfahan, Shiraz, Persepolis 1958

Indonesia – incl. Java, Bali, Borneo, Timor

51 images, Java (Borabadur, Sourabaya), Bali 1957

11 images, Timor 1965

100 images, locations incl. Borneo (diamond mining, Kalimantan, Bandjarmasin, Mata Pura), Java (volcano near Malang, Sourabaya) 1969

Iraq

18 image, incl. Baghdad, Mosul, Tigris River

Italy

27 images, Pantelleria 1957-1958

3 images, incl. Elba 1962

23 images, incl. Elba, diatome quarry, Saragiolo, Tuscany, Latium, Spoleto 1967

Ivory Coast

1 image, lagoon 1954

Japan

26 image, incl. Tokyo, Mt. Fuji, Numazu, shrines, street scenes, festival

Jordan

49 images, incl. Jordan River, Dead Sea, Petra, desert, Sinai, Akaba 1966-1967

Kashmir

53 images, incl. lake and houseboats, truck and quarry, Sikh driver, village, river at Srinagar, Shalimar Garden, Ladakh Valley, Lidar Valley, evacuation convoy 1964

Kenya

58 images, incl. Amboseli, Masai Reserve, Nairobi Game Reserve,wild game, kyanite quarry, Mt. Kilimanjaro 1953

Korea

box 15

224 images, incl. coast, election, forest, houses, local inhabitants – portraits and everyday activities, rice fields, temples and other buildings, Korean military; locations incl. Inchon, Seoul 1948

Laos

29 images, locations incl. Vientiane, Takhek, Seno Airfield, Luang Prabang, Mekong River, Khnong Rapids 1955-1957

Lebanon

9 images, incl. summer palace of the Lebanese president, Baalbek, Sidon 1953

10 images, incl. Baalbek, Bekaa Valley 1966

1 image, fruit seller

Libya

12 images, locations incl. Leptis Magna, Sebatra 1957

1 image, Roman theatre 1958

6 images, Tripoli, Leptis Magna 1968

94 images, incl. Assabah, Gadi Olid, Ghadames, Sahara, Apollonia, camels, Tuareg, Ghat, rock carvings, Tripoli 1969

Macau (Macao)

17 images, port, street scenes, near Chinese border 1955

Madagascar

38 images, incl. Sakoa, Sahanawa River, Benato, graphite mine, mica mine 1950

35 images, incl. beryl mine, rice fields, rickshaws, air taxi, Alaotra,Tananarive, ox wagons 1954

3 images, Tananarive 1972

1 image, street scene 1974

Malaysia

2 images, N. Borneo 1951

17 images, Malacca, N. Borneo (Sarawak)

100 images, N. Borneo (Sabah, Sarawak) 1969

Malta

5 images, incl. La Valleta [sleeved] 1969

Martinique

20 images, mainly parade with military and residents in costume 1944

Mauritania

18 images, incl. Fort Gouraud, local inhabitants, colonial uniforms, camels, and salt caravans 1951

68 images, incl. salt mining and market, well, Senegal River, Atar, Akjoujt, men, women, vegetation, iron deposits, Fort Gouraud, Copollani 1954-1955

Mexico

box 16

3 images, incl. Ensenada, plantation 1947-1948

3 images, local inhabitants, cactus 1959

21 images, incl. Guadalajara, Mexico City, balloons, bullfights 1968

Monsey, NY [Chetelat home]

16 images, incl. interior shots with artifacts from travels 1948-1970

Morocco

1 image, Casablanca 1944

8 images, bicycle rickshaw, Marrakesh 1945

9 images, incl. Bou Beker, Berber village, Rabat 1946

4 images, incl. manganese mining, Berber village 1949

1 image, Marrakesh 1950

13 images, incl. Casablanca,Bou Beker, manganese ore, Berber women, Marrakesh 1951

20 images, incl. Atlas mountains, Marrakesh, Berber potters, Berber village (Afra), N'Kob asbestos 1953

71 images, incl. Nador, near Meknes, Agadir, local inhabitants, mines, agriculture 1962

Mozambique

1 image, giraffes 1972

Nepal

133 images, incl. Kathmandu, Patan, local inhabitants, street scenes, shrines, erotica statues, market 1960

New Caledonia (S. Pacific Island)

105 images, local inhabitants, countryside, coast,prospecting, shells, drilling company 1940-1942

32 images, local inhabitants, countryside, Enzo and colleagues, mines 1951

New Zealand

21 images, incl. countryside, gold mining, railroads 1965

Nicaragua

38 images, incl. Masaya and market, Lake Nicaragua, carts, Managua, Cinerite quarry, Granada, Leon 1968

Niger

42 images, incl. springs, desert, rock formations, camels, livestock, Tuareg; locations incl. Agades, Aïr, Elmeki, Zinder 1951-1952

Nigeria

65 images, countryside, markets, tin mining,women grinding millet, Hausa; locations incl. Adagi, Akwanga, Benue River, Bukuru, Jos Plateau, Kano, Keffi, Lagos, Masanda, Neil Valley, Rishi 1953-1954

Oubangui (French Equatorial Africa [AEF]; now Central African Republic)

6 images, incl. diamond fields and mining 1949

25 images, incl. Bozoum, Bouali Falls, diamond mining 1950-1951

Panama

box 17

9 images, incl. Portobelo, Canal Zone 1971

Paracel Islands (off the coast of China – disputed territory)

47 images, incl. French Foerign Legion, French Marines, Chinese sailors, Golo 1956

Polynesia [Tahiti]

9 images, incl. Bora Bora, Morea, Makatea, Rangiroa 1965

Portugal

54 images, incl. Evora, boats, wind mill, houses, Algarve, Lagos, slums 1954

5 images, Madeira (Funchal) 1960

2 images, Madeira (Funchal) 1966

Portuguese Guinea

1 image, Buba 1938

Samoa

9 images, mostly local women, incl. dancers 1939

3 images, local women, ship, S.S. Mariposa 1940

2 images, local inhabitants 1949

Senegal

2 images, incl. gendarme 1938

6 images, Dakar , Goree 1952

10 images, Goree, Richard Toll Club

11 images, incl. St. Louis, women, Muslim cemetery, Dakar-St. Louis railway

Singapore

9 images, street scenes, flowers 1969

Spain

16 images, incl. Burgos, Sara Co. mine, Salamanca, Avila, Estremadura 1953

48 images, incl. Santiago de Campostela, Galicia, Asturias 1954

15 images, incl. Seu d'Urgel 1961

Syria

22 images, incl. Syria/Lebanon border, Damascus, Balbec, Hama, Aleppo, Tripoli 1953

29 images, incl. Homs, Palmyra 1966

Tanganyika [now Tanzania]

6 images, rivers, ferries 1953

Thailand

20 images, Ayutthaya ruins 1955-1956

1 image, Cambodia border 1957

Timor [Portuguese]

9 images, incl. Los Palos, Villa Salazar 1965

Togo

175 images, incl. scenes of Lome, Dopango, Kande, airfields, colleagues, office, local inhabitants, countryside, markets 1963-1964

Tunisia

5 images, ruins, bridge, boats

6 images, guards, old Jewish woman, Horace Reed 1954

182 images, incl. aquaduct, Berber women, cemetery, coast, countryside, dates, demonstration, local inhabitants, goats, donkeys, mosque, railroad, Punic and Roman ruins, street scenes, tuna and sponge fishing; locations incl. Nefta Oasis, Sidi Daoud, Tebarka, Testour, Tunis 1957-1958

Turkey

box 18

177 images, incl, bazaar, boats, buildings, chromite mining, coast, livestock, local inhabitants, monasteries, mosques, oil well, rock formations, Roman ruins, street scenes; locations incl. Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Aspendos, Bosphorus, Divrik, Eskesehir, Fethyea/Fetiye, Istanbul, Kayserin, Konya, Saray, Sivrihisar, Thermessos, Tokinava, Toros Mountains, Urgub, Zara 1952-1953

Uganda

21 images, incl. Kigezi District by Congo border, tantalite mine, carbonatite, Lake Victoria, Rippon Falls, Entebbe, equator 1953

Vietnam

Other Descriptive Information

incl. Da Lat, Hue, Kon Tum, My Son, Nha Trang, Pleiku (Play Cu), Qui Nhon, Saigon, Tam Ky, Tourane…

1 image, Saigon 1951

15 images, incl. Dalat, Nong Son coal fields, temples, waterfalls, local inhabitants, countryside 1956-1957

1 image, car ferry 1958

209 images, incl. Saigon, Ba Ngoi, Binh Dihn, Cam Rhan, Dalat, Dong-Douane, Hue, My Son, Nha Trang, Tourane, local inhabitants, street scenes, temples, countryside 1959-1960

West Germany

1 image, Frankfurt

Yugoslavia

23 images, incl. Bosnia, Mostar, Dubrovnik, Dalmatia 1953

2 images, incl. Belgrade 1966

Zambia

1 image, Victoria Falls 1974

Travel Materials circa 1920s-1970s

Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, documents, invitations, maps, newspapers and clippings, postcards, programs, receipts, reports, travel and military orders, and other material mainly relating to overseas assignments and trips; arranged by country/geographical area/state/city/place. Also includes geological articles and reports by Chetelat relating to specific areas and assignments.

box 19

Aden [now Yemen]

Africa

Alaska

Albania

Algeria

Arizona

Australia

Bali

Belgian Congo

Belize

Brazil

British West Indies

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burma

California

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]

Chad

Chicago

Corsica

Cuba

Czechoslovakia

Dahomey [now Benin]

Detroit

Ecuador

Fiji

Finland

France

France Overseas

French Equatorial Africa (Afrique Equatoriale Francaise)

box 20

French Guinea [now Guinea]

French Guyana

French Polynesia

French West Africa (AOF) [incl. Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Upper Volta]

French West Indies

Galapagos

Ghana

Great Britain

Guatemala

Haiti

Harvard

Hong Kong

India

Indochina

Indonesia (incl. Java)

Iran

Iraq

Italy

Ivory Coast

box 21

Japan

Jordan

Kenya

Korea

Laos

Lebanon

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Malaya (now Malaysia; incl. Sarawak and Borneo)

Mali

Malta

Martinique

Mauretania

Mauritius

Mexico

Milwaukee

Mongolia

Morocco

Mozambique

Nepal

New Caledonia [in Melanesia, southwest Pacific Ocean]

New York (State and City)

New Zealand

box 22

Niger

Nigeria

North Africa

North and West Africa

Paracel Islands

Peru

St. Pierre and Miquelon

Senegal

Slovakia

Somalia

South Africa

South Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Soviet Union

Spain

Sumatra

Syria

Tahiti

Taiwan

Thailand

Togo

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Upper Volta

Vietnam

Washington, D.C.

West Africa

Yugoslavia

Miscellany – incl. unidentified items, and articles and reports referencing work by Chetelat

box 23-24

Artifacts

Fabric

Dahomey – wall hanging, with animals (acq. 1963)

Metal Anklets

Ceylon – Candy, 2 men's dancing anklets (acq. 1938)

Ghana/Togo (acq. 1963)

India – Orissa (acq. ca. 1930)

Ivory Coast (acq. 1933)

Northern Ivory Coast – women's anklet (acq. 1933)

Northern Ivory Coast (acq. date unknown)

Northern Ivory Coast – 2 anklets, with locking pin mechanisms (acq. 1935)

Northern Ivory Coast/Ghana (acq. 1933)

Unknown Origins – 2 items, 1 with locking pin mechanism (acq. date unknown)

Pins and buttons in metal box 1960s

Pottery

Cambodia Beng Melea, fragment, ancient Chinese, est. ca. 13c (acq. date unknown)

Lighter--metal, with the name Enzo de Chetelat engraved on it

Scale 1 small, metal pocket scale, with monogrammed leather case

Slide Rule – in case, dated 1940

Snake Belt for Woman – Dahomey, Holly tribe (acq. 1925)

Wood Figures Carved

Dahomey – Ketou, female figure (acq. 1925)

Dahomey – Male figure, Hollis N. P. N[?] (acq. 1925)

Dahomey – Parakou, fetish neck (acq. 1925)

French Guinea –Baga, female, late 19c (acq. Boke, 1938)

[French Guinea] – Baga, female figure (acq. unknown)

Ghana – female (acq. 1968)

Nigeria/Dahomey – Yoruba, female and baby, ca. 1900 (acq. 1926)

Northern Togo/Upper Volta – female (acq. 1963)

box 25

Miscellany

Scope and Content

Mainly stamps (numerous countries, most on envelopes, from friends/relatives) and labels (acquired on travels); also some 18th -19th century engravings