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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: ACHAC collection
Creator: Van Den Heuvel, A.
Creator: Veber, Pierre, 1869-1942
Creator: Valerio, R. de
Creator: Valfy
Creator: Tournaire, Albert
Creator: Toussaint
Creator: Tabet, George
Creator: Tinayre, Louis, 1861-1941
Creator: Wuillaume, R.
Creator: Würth
Creator: Whiting, Richard A., 1891-1938
Creator: Willems
Creator: Vrillon, Pierre
Creator: Waroquier, Henry de, 1881-1970
Creator: Viano
Creator: Villaire, Henri
Creator: Zagourski, C.
Creator: Orange, Maurice
Creator: Pauley
Creator: Pelletier, G.
Creator: Pinchon, E.
Creator: Nezière, R. de
Creator: Nouen, Guy
Creator: Noury, Pierre, 1894-
Creator: Office algérien d'action economique et touristique
Creator: Quidor, Gaston
Creator: Rakotouko
Creator: Ranem, M.
Creator: Reclose, Henri
Creator: Portal, Henri
Creator: Prevot, Paul
Creator: Produits du Lion Noir
Creator: Prost, Gaston
Creator: Russell, Bob, 1914-1970
Creator: Rorebour
Creator: Régnard, adjudant
Creator: Régamey, Frédéric
Creator: Ripart, Georges, 1871-
Creator: Reynaud (?)
Creator: Romberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951
Creator: Romberg (?), Maurice
Creator: Service spécial de police et sûreté, Soudan français
Creator: Service de l'information du Congo Belge
Creator: Silver, F.
Creator: Sigman, Carl
Creator: Santos
Creator: Saint-Granier
Creator: Schoeffler, G.
Creator: Saunier, J.
Creator: Atelier Cob
Creator: Association Connaissance de l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine
Creator: Atelier Salabert
Creator: Atelier J. Fourastié
Creator: A.D.I.A.
Creator: Asso, Raymond
Creator: Allard, G.
Creator: Chocolat Pupier (Firm)
Creator: Chocolat Suchard (firm)
Creator: Chazeaud, Jacques
Creator: Chocolat Cémoi (Firm)
Creator: Clérice, Charles
Creator: Cognet
Creator: Chocolaterie d'Aiguebelle
Creator: Clairin, Georges, 1843-1919
Creator: Carbonel, Jules
Creator: Carew, A. Ferdinand
Creator: Breugnot
Creator: Camus, Ernest
Creator: Cauvy, Lèon
Creator: Charaire, E.
Creator: Casino (Firm)
Creator: Castel, Eric
Creator: Bousquet, L.
Creator: Borel-Clerc, Charles
Creator: Boisselier, H.
Creator: Beuville
Creator: Bresson, R.
Creator: Braun et compagnie
Creator: Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
Creator: Boyer, Lucien, 1876-1942
Creator: Bouygues, L.
Creator: Bayle, Luc Marie
Creator: Baschet, Marcel, 1862-1941
Creator: Bartet, docteur
Creator: Auger, Raoul
Creator: Bertal-Maubon
Creator: Berney-Forien
Creator: Benveniste, S. D.
Creator: Bellenger, P.
Creator: Douillet, J.
Creator: Dransy, Naja
Creator: Dupuich, J. A., 1904-1984
Creator: Dupuy et compagnie
Creator: Eckstein-Halpaus
Creator: Edition Francis Salabert
Creator: Desmeures
Creator: Desmoulins, R.
Creator: Dessault, L.
Creator: Destres, Melchior
Creator: Dommel
Creator: Dormoy, Henri
Creator: Dandrieux, G.
Creator: Da Cruz, A.
Creator: Dellepiane, David, 1866-1932
Creator: Aquisti, Danilo
Creator: Denay, Pierre
Creator: Delval, H.
Creator: Desmarais
Creator: Denoncin, René, 1920-2002
Creator: Colin, Paul, 1892-1985
Creator: Cohn, Irving
Creator: Combier Imprimeur Mâcon
Creator: Collection idéale PS (Firm)
Creator: Congopresse
Creator: Compagnie alsacienne des arts photoméchaniques
Creator: Cras, Monique
Creator: Contet, Henri, 1904-1998
Creator: Kahn, Gus, 1886-1941
Creator: Koger, Geo.
Creator: Jourdain, gouverneur
Creator: Julsam, -1963
Creator: Jomone
Creator: Jonas, Lucien, 1880-1947
Creator: Irriera, Roger
Creator: Ithier, Hubert
Creator: Ifrani, Jacques
Creator: Imagerie Pellerin (Épinal, France)
Creator: Hilliard, Bob
Creator: Hoffner, L.
Creator: Géza, Dombay
Creator: Hernandez, E.
Creator: Goldstein, H.
Creator: Gougeon, Louis
Creator: Goichon
Creator: Giordani, N.
Creator: Geiser, Jean, 1848-1923
Creator: Gay, Byron
Creator: Fortier, François Edmond, 1862-1928
Creator: Fort, Jean
Creator: Flandrin
Creator: Fix-Masseau, Pierre, 1905-
Creator: Ferréol, Roger
Creator: Falcucci
Creator: Monnot, Marguerite
Creator: Morvan, Hervé, 1917-1980
Creator: Neurdein frères
Creator: Marbot, R.
Creator: Mazenod, L.
Creator: Mercier, A. L.
Creator: Merly, Jean
Creator: Lion, R.
Creator: Lévy, fils et compagnie
Creator: Levin
Creator: Levy, Ch.
Creator: Ligue maritime et coloniale française
Creator: Leroux, Pierre Albert, 1890-1959
Creator: Lemonies (?)
Creator: Leroy, J. V.
Creator: Lecuona, Margarita
Creator: Lebied, E.
Creator: Lemarchand, Louis
Creator: Ledru, Jack
Creator: Large, H.
Creator: Lajoux, Edmond
Creator: Latil, C.
Creator: Larue, Jacques
Creator: La Cigogne (Firm)
Creator: Kálmán, Emmerich, 1882-1953
Creator: Laboulais
Creator: La Croix, Veyron
Identifier/Call Number: 970031
Physical Description: 32 Linear Feet(31 boxes, 30 flatfiles, 5 rolls)
Date (inclusive): 1880-ca. 1975
Abstract: A consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussion of race, iconography, and the colonial
and post-colonial periods of Africa and Europe. The ACHAC collection documents the influence 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. Some materials concern Belgian and German
colonies.
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Language of Material: French.
Scope and Content of Collection
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. Included in the collection are 2286 postcards,
350 loose photographs, 14 photograph albums, 19 periodicals, clippings and portfolio publications, 134 posters, prints and
items of original artwork, 83 items of assorted ephemera, 148 loose advertising and collecting cards, 5 collecting card albums,
16 children's games and toys, and 14 scores of sheet music. The geographic foci of the collection are the former French colonies
of North, West and Central Africa, with some items pertaining to Madagascar, Djibouti and Indochina, and to a much lesser
extent the former Belgian colonies of Central Africa; one collecting card album represents the former German colonies in Africa
and Oceania. Produced by government agencies, commercial concerns and private individuals, the images provide a representative
cross-section of the visual materials in circulation at the time, in France and elsewhere, pertaining to the colonies and
the colonial experience.
The collection is rich in images of colonial conquest and military activity, particularly with respect to the French colonial
troops (Troupes coloniales) and the regiments of African soldiers recruited into the French army and serving under European
officers, the best documented being the Senegalese infantry (Tirailleurs sénégalais). The collection also features a wealth
of images documenting cities, regions and industries within the colonies, as well as the French colonial expositions of the
first half of the 20th century, most particularly the one held in Paris in 1931; portraits and depictions of colonized peoples
and cultures, ranging in tone from documentary and ethnographic to romanticized, erotic or racist; propaganda and educational
images intended to direct public opinion within France into accord with French colonial, military and economic policy; and
advertisements and other ephemera employing colonial or racist imagery.
The collection is arranged in seven series: Series I. Postcards, ca. 1900-ca. 1957; Series II. Photographs, 1895-ca. 1962;
Series III. Portfolio publications and other periodical materials, 1909?-ca. 1960; Series IV. Printed images, posters, maps
and original artwork, 1880-1967; Series V. Printed ephemera, ca. 1900-ca. 1975; Series VI. Toys and games, 1892-1941; Series
VII. Sheet music, 1908-1956.
ACHAC (Association Connaissance de l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine) is a consortium of scholars and researchers devoted
to exploring and promoting discussion of race, iconography and the colonial and post-colonial periods of Africa and Europe.
Founded in 1990 by historian and author Pascal Blanchard, ACHAC organizes conferences and prepares scholarly publications
on these topics, often in conjunction with other associations. Participants who assisted in the transfer of the materials
in this collection include Dr. Blanchard, anthropobiologist Gilles Boëtsch, Director of Research at the CNRS (Centre national
de la recherche scientifique), and historian and filmmaker Eric Deroo.
ACHAC has created presentations on these topics in a variety of media, including a CD-ROM as well as a traveling educational
exhibition entitled
Images et colonies, consisting of pre-printed panels offering a critical analysis of popular images from the French colonial period. ACHAC's
journal
Plein Sud, a publication devoted to African studies, released several issues in 1991 and 1992 and also serves as the publishing imprint
for ACHAC's conference proceedings. ACHAC's website (achac.com) will be available online as of Dec. 31, 2001.
ACHAC members participate in conferences and publish articles on topics central to its mission. Most recently, two such articles
appeared in the French journal
Le Monde diplomatique: "Ces zoos humains de la République coloniale" (Aug. 2000) and "1931! Tous à l'Expo..." (Jan. 2001). Other articles recently
appeared include "L'Afrique noire inventée,"
Historiens et géographes, no. 367 (1999-2000); "Sauvage ou assimilé?",
Africultures (Feb. 2000); and "L'invention du corps du colonisé à l'heure de l'apogée coloniale,"
Le corps dans tous ses états (CNRS Editions, Dec. 2001).
Publications:
Images et colonies : iconographie et propagande coloniale sur l'Afrique française de 1880 à 1962. Nanterre : BDIC ; Paris : ACHAC, [1993]
Images et colonies : nature, discours et influence de l'iconographie coloniale liée à la propagande coloniale et à la représentation
des Africains et de l'Afrique en France, de 1920 aux indépendances : actes du colloque organisé par l'ACHAC du 20 au 22 janvier
1993 à la Bibliothèque nationale.
Paris : Syros, 1993. Conference papers delivered at the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1993.
L'Autre et nous : Scènes et types. [Paris] : Syros ; ACHAC, 1995. Conference papers delivered in Marseille, 1995.
L'Afrique : un continent, des nations. Toulouse : Milan, 1996-1997. A children's book.
Images d'empires : 1930-1960, trente ans de photographies officielles sur l'Afrique française. Paris : Editions de la Martinière, Documentation française, c1997.
Imaginaire colonial, figures de l'immigré; special number of
Hommes et migrations, June 1997.
De l'indigène à l'immigré. Paris : Gallimard, c1998. Series: Découvertes. Histoire, 345.
Afriques; special number of
Passerelles, no. 16, May 1998.
L'héritage colonial : un trou de mémoire; special number of
Hommes et migrations, Nov. 2000.
Paris noir, 1878-2000. Paris : Ed. Hazan, 2001.
Conferences:
Images et colonies, Bibliothèque nationale (Paris, 1993)
Maghreb et Afrique noire au regard du cinéma colonial, Institut du monde arabe (Paris, 1994)
Scènes et types (Marseille, 1995)
Miroirs d'empires (Lille/Brussels, 1996)
De l'indigène à l'immigré (Lille/Paris, 1997)
Zoos humains? Mémoire coloniale! (Marseille/Paris, 2001)
Exhibitions:
Images et colonies (appeared in 18 countries in Africa, Europe and America, 1993-1998)
Images et colonies (educational exhibition with 120 copies circulating world-wide, 1995-2000)
L'appel à l'Afrique (appeared in 6 African countries, 1995-1998)
Miroirs d'empires (Lille/Brussels, 1996)
Zoos humains (Paris, Bamako, New York, 2001-2002)
All of the approximately 300 books and 1150 individual periodical issues from the collection were separated to the library.
A search using the term "ACHAC" while selecting the index "Provenance" from the pull-down menu in the Getty online library
catalog will retrieve a list of these separated materials, in addition to the ACHAC collection-level record and the full records
for the photograph albums and collecting card albums, described more briefly in this finding aid. A search using the term
"ACHAC" and selecting the "Keyword" index will retrieve the ACHAC collection-level record and individual album records alone,
without records for the separated materials.
Collection processed by Paul Arenson.
The collection was acquired directly from ACHAC in 1997.
ACHAC collection, 1880-ca. 1975, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 970031.
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Information from the following books was used in the cataloging this collection and in the preparation of this finding aid:David, Philippe.
Inventaire général des cartes postales Fortier. [Paris : s.n.], 1986-88, vol. 1, p. 3-4.Dubuisson, Serge, and Jean-Charles Humbert.
Jean Geiser, photographe-éditeur : Alger, 1848-1923. In:
L'image dans le monde arabe / Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman; sous la direction de G. Beaugé et de J.-F. Clément.
Paris : CNRS éditions, 1995, p. 275-290.Garanger, Marc.
La guerre d'Algérie : vue par un appelé du contingent. [Paris] : Seuil, 1984, p. 41, 86-93.Guenneguez, André.
Répertoire de la carte postale ivoirienne en hommage aux fondateurs de la Côte-d'Ivoire : centenaire 1887/1888-1888. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire : Art et Édition, 1988, p. 190.
Images et colonies : iconographie et propagande coloniale sur l'Afrique française de 1880 à 1962. Nanterre : BDIC ; Paris : ACHAC, [1993], p. 130, 186, 196-7, 205, 240.Prussin, Labelle.
Hatumere : Islamic design in West Africa. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986, p. 18, 123, 172.Ripert, Aline.
La carte postale : son histoire, sa fonction sociale. Paris : Editions du CNRS ; Lyon : Presses universitaires de Lyon, c1983, p. 52-4.Sorlot, Marc.
André Maginot : l'homme politique et sa légende. Metz : Serpenoise, c1995, p. 70, 192, 195-6, 206.Stewart, John.
African states and rulers : an encyclopedia of native, colonial, and independent states and rulers past and present. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1989, p. 226-7.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Clippings (information artifacts)
Madagascar -- Colonization
Toys (recreational artifacts)
Tickets
Watercolors
Sheet music
France -- Colonies -- Africa
Screen prints
Stickers
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962
Stencils
Posters
Postcards
Relief halftones
Photograph albums
Pictorial envelopes
Photomechanical prints
Portfolios
Playing cards
Board games
Photogravures
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Advertising cards
Albumen prints
Albums
Badges
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History, Military.
Germany -- Colonies -- Africa.
Advertising blotters
Architecture, Colonial -- Africa
Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa.
Racism in popular culture -- France
Photography of women -- Africa.
Vernacular architecture -- Africa.
Women -- Africa
Colonists -- Africa -- Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples -- Africa -- Social life and customs.
Landscape -- Africa.
Missions -- Africa.
Book jackets
Brochures
Chromolithographs
Cigarette cards
Africa -- History -- 1884-1960
Africa, Central -- Colonization
Africa, French-speaking West -- Colonization.
Africa, North -- Colonization.
Cutouts
First day covers
Ephemera
Documentation pédagogique (no. 47, 61, 72)
Collecting cards
Maduré-Madagascar
Color lithographs
Documentation photographique
Collodion prints
Lithographs
Pédagogie pratique
Line blocks
Maps
Magazines (periodicals)
Gouaches
Gelatin silver prints
Leaflets
Illustrated menus
Offset lithographs
Paintings
Maximum cards
Notebook covers
Drawings (visual works)
Exposition coloniale de Marseille (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1906).)
Exposition coloniale de Marseille (1922)
Diagne, Blaise, 1872-1934
Diouf, Galandou
France. Armée. Troupes d'outre-mer
France. Armée. Troupes coloniales
France. Armée. Méharistes
France. Armée. Tirailleurs sénégalais
Foucauld, Charles de, 1858-1916
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1931).)
Mutara, King of Rwanda, III Charles Rudahigwa, 1911-1959
Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve, 1854-1934
Maginot, André, 1877-1932
Lespinasse de Bournazel, Henry-Marie-Just de, 1898-1933