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Title: ACHAC collection
Date (inclusive): 1880-ca. 1975
Collection number: 970031
Collector:
Association Connaissance
de l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine (ACHAC)
Extent:
32 linear feet
(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: 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: Collection material in French
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ACHAC collection, 1880-ca. 1975, Getty Research
Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 970031.
The collection was acquired directly from ACHAC in 1997.
Collection processed by Paul Arenson.
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.
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)
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.
Arrangement
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
Diagne, Blaise,
1872-1934
Diouf, Galandou
Foucauld, Charles de,
1858-1916
Lespinasse de Bournazel,
Henry-Marie-Just de, 1898-1933
Lyautey, Louis Hubert
Gonzalve, 1854-1934
Maginot,
André, 1877-1932
Mutara III Charles
Rudahigwa, Mwami of Rwanda, 1911-1959
France.
Armée. Méharistes
France.
Armé;e. Tirailleurs
sénégalais
France.
Armée. Troupes coloniales
France.
Armée. Troupes d'outre-mer
Exposition coloniale de
Marseille (1906)
Exposition coloniale de
Marseille (1922)
Exposition coloniale
internationale de Paris (1931)
Architecture,
Colonial—Africa
Colonists—Africa—Social
life and customs.
Indigenous
peoples—Africa—Social life and customs.
Landscape—Africa.
Missions—Africa.
Racism in popular
culture—France.
Photography of
women—Africa.
Vernacular
architecture—Africa.
Women—Africa.
Africa—History—1884-1960.
Africa,
Central—Colonization.
Africa, French-speaking
West—Colonization.
Africa,
North—Colonization.
Algeria—History—Revolution, 1954-1962.
Belgium—Colonies—Africa.
France—Colonies—Africa.
France—Colonies—Africa—History, Military.
Germany—Colonies—Africa.
Madagascar—Colonization.
Advertising
blotters
Advertising
cards
Albumen prints
Albums
Badges
Board games
Book jackets
Brochures
Chromolithographs
Cigarette
cards
Clippings
Collecting
cards
Collodion
prints
Color
lithographs
Cutouts
Drawings
Ephemera
First day
covers
Gelatin silver
prints
Gouaches
Illustrated
menus
Leaflets
Line blocks
Lithographs
Magazines
(periodicals)
Maps
Maximum cards
Notebook
covers
Offset
lithographs
Paintings
Photogravures
Photographic
prints
Photographs,
Original
Photomechanical
prints
Pictorial
envelopes
Playing cards
Portfolios
Postcards
Posters
Photograph
albums
Relief
halftones
Screen prints
Sheet music
Stencils
Stickers
Tickets
Toys (recreational
artifacts)
Watercolors
Contributors: personal names, artists
Allard, G.
Auger, Raoul
Baschet, Marcel,
1862-1941
Bayle, Luc
Marie
Bellenger, P.
Benveniste, S. D.
Berney-Forien
Beuville
Boisselier, H.
Bouygues, L.
Bresson, R.
Breugnot
Carbonel, Jules
Castel, Eric
Cauvy, Lèon
Charaire, E.
Chazeaud, Jacques
Clairin, Georges,
1843-1919
Clérice,
Charles
Cognet
Colin, Paul,
1892-1985
Cras, Monique
Dandrieux, G.
Danilo
Dellepiane, David,
1866-1932
Delval, H.
Denay, Pierre
Desmeures
Dormoy, Henri
Douillet, J.
Dransy, Naja
Dupuich, J. A.
Falcucci
Fix-Masseau, Pierre,
1905-
Fort, Jean
Giordani, N.
Goichon
Gougeon, Louis
Hoffner, L.
Irriera, Roger
Jonas,
Lucien,1880-1947
Laboulais
La Croix, Veyron
Lajoux, Edmond
Large, H.
Lemonies (?)
Leroux, Pierre Albert,
1890-1959
Levin
Levy, Ch.
Lion, R.
Mazenod, L.
Mercier, A. L.
Morvan,
Hervé, 1917-1980
Nezière, R. de
Nouen, Guy
Noury, Pierre, b.
1894
Orange, Maurice
Pelletier, G.
Pinchon, E.
Prevot, Paul
Prost, Gaston
Quidor, Gaston
Rakotouko
Ranem, M.
Régamey,
Frédéric, 1849-1925
Reynaud (?)
Ripart, G.
Romberg (?), Maurice
Rorebour
Santos
Saunier, J.
Tinayre, Louis,
1861-1941
Tournaire,
Albert
Toussaint
Valerio, R. de
Viano
Villaire, Henri
Vrillon, Pierre
Waroquier, Henry de,
1881-1970
Würth
Contributors: personal names, photographers
Carew, A. Ferdinand
Bartet, docteur
Camus, Ernest
Da Cruz, A.
Desmarais
Dessault, L.
Flandrin
Fortier, François-Edmond,
1862-1928
Geiser, Jean, 1848-1923
Goldstein, H.
Hernandez, E.
Jourdain, gouverneur
Latil, C.
Lebied, E.
Leroy, J. V.
Merly, Jean
Portal, Henri
Régnard,
adjudant
Schoeffler, G.
Van Den Heuvel, A.
Wuillaume, R.
Zagourski, C.
Contributors: personal names, music composers
Asso, Raymond
Bertal-Maubon
Borel-Clerc,
Charles
Bousquet, L.
Boyer, Lucien
Cohn, Irving
Contet, Henri
Denoncin, René
Desmoulins, R.
Destres, Melchior
Dommel
Ferréol, Roger
Gay, Byron
Géza , Dombay
Hilliard, Bob
Ifrani, Jacques
Ithier, Hubert
Julsam
Kahn, Gus,
1886-1941
Kálmán, Emmerich,
1882-1953
Koger, Geo.
Larue, Jacques
Lecuona, Margarita
Ledru, Jack
Lemarchand, Louis
Marbot, R.
Monnot,
Marguerite
Pauley
Reclose, Henri
Romberg, Sigmund,
1887-1951
Russell, Bob,
1914-1970
Saint Granier
Sigman, Carl
Silver, F.
Tabet, George
Valfy
Veber, Pierre,
1869-1942
Whiting, Richard A.,
1891-1938
Willems
Contributors: corporate bodies
A.D.I.A.
Atelier Cob
Atelier J.
Fourastié
Atelier Salabert
Braun et compagnie
Casino (Firm)
Chocolat Cémoi
(Firm)
Chocolat Pupier (Firm)
Chocolat Suchard (Firm)
Chocolaterie d'Aiguebelle
La Cigogne (Firm)
Collection idéale PS (Firm)
Combier imprimeur
Mâcon
Compagnie alsacienne des arts
photoméchaniques
Congopresse
Dupuy et compagnie
Eckstein-Halpaus
Edition Francis Salabert
Imagerie Pellerin (Epinal, France)
Jomone
Lévy, fils et
compagnie
Liebig Extract of Meat
Company
Ligue maritime et coloniale
française
Neurdein
frères
Office
algérien d'action economique et touristique
Produits du Lion Noir
Service de l'information du Congo
Belge
Service spécial de police
et sûreté, Soudan français
Documentation pédagogique (no. 47, 61, 72) Documentation photographique Maduré-Madagascar Pédagogie pratique
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.