Blind Men Making Tennis Net, Johannesburg, South Africa

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

This series of photographs depicts blind South Africans working in an occupational facility in Johannesburg. They are making baskets, tennis nets, and caning chairs.

Collection

Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection

Archival grouping

Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / Blind South Africans Working at an Occupational Facility, Johannesburg, South Africa

Catalog date

1948

Recorded places

Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg (South Africa)

Cataloged creator or photographer

Larrabee, Constance Stuart

Format and extent

1 Negatives (photographic) (silver gelatin, b&w, 6 x 6 cm.); 1 Copy print (b&w, 8 x 10 in.)

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