Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection

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Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection

1900-1997

The collection mostly includes images taken in South Africa. The images document the peoples of South Africa, particularly the Loved, Ndebele, San, Sotho, Xhosa, and Zulu peoples. Locations photographed include Basutoland (now Lesotho), Bechuanaland (now Botswana), Johannesburg, Natal, Pretoria, Soweto, Swaziland, Transkei, Transvaal, the Umzimkulu Valley and Zululand. Manuscript and office files include clippings, correspondence, exhibition announcements, invitations and reviews, notes, essays, receipts, and other materials that document Larrabee's career, family history, and personal life.

circa 11000 Negatives; circa 5000 Photographic prints; circa 25.4 linear feet of manuscript material

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SNAC Resource ID: 11667442

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives

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Larrabee, Constance Stuart, 1914-2000

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Constance Stuart Larrabee (7 August 1914 – 27 July 2000) was an English photographer best known for her images of South Africa and her photo-journalism on Europe during World War II. She was South Africa's first female war correspondent....