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- Eliot Elisofon Field collection 3067
- Eliot Elisofon Field photographs 1942-1972 3066
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection 749
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- Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection 476
- African Postcard Collection 396
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- Simon Ottenberg photographs 1951-1960 287
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- Lorenzo Dow Turner papers, Series 5: Photographs ca 1890-1974 101
- Sub-series 5.4.1: Research: Africa 101
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- Leon de Sousberghe photographs 1955-1957 73
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- African Postcard Collection / Series 13: Cote d'Ivoire (IV) 49
- African Postcard Collection / Series 18: Ethiopia (ET) 49
- Google Cultural Institute 49
- Field photographs from Bahia, Brazil 1938 - 1939 46
- Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 3: Underwood & Underwood glass plates / 3.2: Underwood and Underwood Positives / RSN Numbers 22771-22871 38
- African Postcard Collection / Series 26: Madagascar (MG) 34
- Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier) 33
- Myron Bement Smith Collection, Subseries 2.12: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs 31
- Myron Bement Smith collection 1899-1962 31
- African Postcard Collection / Series 11: Congo Belge (CG) 30
- Library of Congress Copyright Deposit Collection 28
- Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 3: Underwood & Underwood glass plates / 3.2: Underwood and Underwood Positives / RSN Numbers 22872-22970 28
- Ethel M. Albert slides 1955-1957 25
- Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 3: Underwood & Underwood glass plates / 3.2: Underwood and Underwood Positives / RSN Numbers 22587-22672 24
- Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 3: Underwood & Underwood glass plates / 3.1: Underwood and Underwood Negatives / RSN Numbers 14360-14431 23
- African Postcard Collection / Series 4: Benin (Dahomey) (DM) 21
- Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 3: Underwood & Underwood glass plates / 3.1: Underwood and Underwood Negatives / RSN Numbers 14300-14359 21
- African Postcard Collection / Series 12: Congo Français (CF) 19
- African Postcard Collection / Series 30: Morocco (MR) 19
- African Postcard Collection / Series 23: Kenya (KE) 17
- African Postcard Collection / Series 7: Cameroon (CM) 17
- African Postcard Collection / Series 3: Angola (AO) 16
- African Postcard Collection / Series 28: Mali (ML) 15
- African Postcard Collection / Series 5: Burkina Faso (UV) 15
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center 15
- African Postcard Collection / Series 15: Egypt (UA) 14
- Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection / Series 3: Underwood & Underwood glass plates / 3.1: Underwood and Underwood Negatives / RSN Numbers 18165-18288 14
- African Postcard Collection / Series 21: Guinea (GV) 13
