Congo - 226 diapositives.
Estimation :
1200 / 2000
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
Images during the colonization showing whites (White Fathers ?) and indigenous population working, on a boat, dancing, waiting for the doctor, etc. Images of infrastructure and housing (huts and stone buildings). Several cities documented : Boma, Katanga, Kitega, Kasai, Kilou, Matadi, Stanleyville, Kinshasa, Leopoldville, Sankuru, Mayombe... Mentioning a certain "Jos Heyman" on a couple of slides. Some rather remarkable images of a caught hippopotamus, a "crazy woman", a caught donkey put in "elephant shoes" (chopped of ? feet of an elephant, keeping only the skin), a person with the symptom of elephantiasis (parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions). Some diapositives labelled "eseguita con lastra Cappellini".
