View of a European man (possibly Vitoria?) posing beside a large stationary gravel pumping plant at a tin mine. Another smaller stationary engine is behind. A man is crawling along pipework which passes overhead and others can be seen tending to the pumping engine's components in the background.

Collection type: Photograph
Description: View of a European man (possibly Vitoria?) posing beside a large stationary gravel pumping plant at a tin mine. Another smaller stationary engine is behind. A man is crawling along pipework which passes overhead and others can be seen tending to the pumping engine's components in the background.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Person: Named Person John Lucien Vitoria; Photographer John Lucien Vitoria; PRM source John Lucien Vitoria
Date / Period: Date of photograph: 1930 - 1932
Acquisition information: Donated: 1969
Photographic process: Negative film nitrate
Dimensions: Length x Width 85 x 112 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1998.217.8.5 Previous PRM number: B.17.8.5 Previous other number: JLV5
Research and responses: Biographical Information - John Lucien Vitoria's wife Edmée Vitoria (Edmée Nikel) who accompanied him during the period 1930-1932 in Nigeria, has been the subject of a biography by her daughter Christine Lehmann, Edmée Nikel: le bonheur de peindre, Somogy éditions de Art, 2008. Vitoria and their time in Nigeria are briefly discussed in this book, and several of the photographs in the PRM collection are reproduced. [CM 10/11/2008]

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