President Meets Tribal Chief: President Joseph Kasavubu of the Congo shakes hands with a scantily clad tribal chief during visit last week to Coquilhatville, capital of the Congo's Equator Province. Man in center in unidentified. Kasavubu witnessed a display of folk dancing

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President Meets Tribal Chief: President Joseph Kasavubu of the Congo shakes hands with a scantily clad tribal chief during visit last week to Coquilhatville, capital of the Congo's Equator Province. Man in center in unidentified. Kasavubu witnessed a display of folk dancing
President Meets Tribal Chief: President Joseph Kasavubu of the Congo shakes hands with a scantily clad tribal chief during visit last week to Coquilhatville, capital of the Congo's Equator Province. Man in center in unidentified. Kasavubu witnessed a display of folk dancing
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
Date1960
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 8 × 6 3/4 in. (20.3 × 17.2 cm) Sheet: 8 1/4 × 8 1/8 in. (21 × 20.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.192
Not on view

Additional Details

Markings Verso, upper center (newspaper clipping): [upside-down] “After witnessing a display of folk dancing, / Congo President Joseph Kasavubu shook / hands with a tribal chief in a visit to the / Congo’s equator province. -AP Wirephoto”
Verso, upper center (stamp, purple ink): [upside-down and on top of newspaper clipping] “TU DEC [illegible date] 1960”
Verso, center (stamp, purple ink): [upside-down] “DEAD”
Verso, lower left (stamp, red ink): [upside-down] “NOTICE / This picture is the property of The Associated / Press and may be used only for the purposes of / reproduction when authorized by the owner. It may / not be syndicated, rented or loaned, or used for / advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade. / The following credit must be printed under / such reproduction of this picture: / ASSOCIATED PRESS / WIREPHOTO / and U. S. PATENT OFFICE”
Verso, lower right (stamp, blue ink): [sideways] “17789”
Inscribed Verso, upper left corner (pencil): “HF-AFR-06-2 / 900”
Verso, upper center (blue ink): [upside-down and on top of newspaper clipping] “tathus” (?)
Verso, upper center (pencil): [sideways] “y / 3 cal / Tribe Ch [writing covered by newspaper clipping]”
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