Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Dragline removing overburden at Amalgamated Tin Mines of Nigeria Ltd., a tin and colombite mining operation, Barakin Akawu, south of Jos, Nigeria
1959
Africa; Nigeria
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 photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.
- Collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Archival grouping
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Nigeria
- Catalog date
- 1959
- Recorded places
- Africa; Nigeria
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Recorded subjects
- Industries
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 13081
Collection: Eliot Elisofon Field collection