Supported by Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia.PTDC/HIS-HIS/112198/2009
In this Archive 916 photographs were identified from the different territories of the former Portuguese colonies: Angola; Cape Verde; Guinea; Portuguese State of India (Goa, Daman and Diu); Macau; Mozambique; Sao Tome and Principe; Timor. Dating from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the photographs are grouped into different categories: Historical and maritime Events; Navy Installations (monuments, weapons and coats); Documentary Photographs; Photographs with various themes, especially institutional events; and Various aspects, staff and maritime material.
Edifício da Antiga Fábrica Nacional de Cordoaria Rua da Junqueira 1300-342 Lisboa Telefone: 213627600 Fax: 2136227601
This Archive has some twentieth century photographic collections, originating in the Ministry of Overseas, which was made extinct in 1974. According to the website of the Archives of the Ministry of Overseas, a recent project coordinated by the historian José Mattoso, the Historical Diplomatic Archive has photographs of all former Portuguese colonies: Angola; Cape Verde; Guinea-Bissau; Portuguese India; Macau; Mozambique; Sao Tome and Principe and Timor. However, it was only possible to find 15 photographs, undated, of Cape Verde; 27 photographs, undated, about a train accident in Mozambique; and 996 photographs of Angola. The wide range of photographs of Angola is divided into envelopes with different titles: "armas apreendidas aos terroristas”; “Forte de S. João Baptista de Ajudá”; “Junta de Exportação do Café – Empreendimentos de Ordem Social de Angola”; “Visita do War College à Barragem de Cambambe”; “Visita a Sá da Bandeira do Gen. V. Deslandes; “Visita de sua Excelência o subsecretário a Benguela e Nova Lisboa”; “Visita do Embaixador do Brasil Negrão de Lima”; “Visita do Presidente do Senado Congolês Victor Coumuriko, a Luanda”; “Visita a Angola do Presidente do Parlamento da República Federal da Alemanha” and, finally, various aspects of presidential visits. There are some photographic albums: the photographic album entitled "Empreendimento de Ordem Social em Angola – organizações Mário Cunha”, composed of 22 photographs, and the album “Obras de assistência social e sanitária realizadas pela Junta de Exportação do Algodão", undated, with 122 photographs.
Arquivo e Biblioteca Largo das Necessidades 1350-115 Lisboa Telefone: 213946305 Fax: 213946029
Within the different collections that form this Archive, there are two major ones that concern the Cardinal Catholic Church, Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, who was in office during the Estado Novo regime (between 1929 and 1971): Collection of Photographic Albums Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (151 photographs) and Collection of individual photographs Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (190 photographs). Dating from the first half of the 20th century, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the photographs reveal aspects of the old Hospital do Ultramar, in Lisbon, and of hospitals in the following regions: Goa, in India; Lobito, Luanda and Sá da Bandeira (now Lubango) in Angola; Macau; Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and Vila Pery (now Chimoio) in Mozambique.
Mosteiro de S. Vicente de Fora, Campo de Sta. Clara 1100-472 Lisboa Telefone: 218810500 Fax: 218810555
This Archive, from the now extinct Banco Nacional Ultramarino (National Overseas Bank), has photographic collections recording all the former Portuguese colonies, even Angola, the only Portuguese colony where the bank was not represented (as there was a Bank of Angola). The photographs of the former Portuguese colonies dating from the twentieth century consist mainly of the architectural register of local agencies and Bank branches; homes of Bank workers; Affiliated and purchased banks (especially the Bank of Angola); Businesses and Companies; Urban and Rural Aspects and the recording of different events (Tributes, Meetings, Conferences and Official Visits).
R. António Maria Batista, 14 1170-027 Lisboa Telefone: 218160645 Fax: 218160647
The Military Historical Archive has a large photographic collection from the second half of the nineteenth century, reflecting the importance of photography in the Portuguese Army. 5961 photographs were identified, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of all the former Portuguese colonies with the exception of Timor: Angola (3098 photographs); Cape Verde (228 photographs); Guinea, from the Private Collection of João José Soares Zilhão (214 photographs); India (339 photographs); Macau (785 photographs); Mozambique (1130 photographs) and Sao Tome and Principe (8 photographs), but also 79 photographs related to World War I, with aspects of military operations mainly in the territories of German East Africa.
Largo dos Caminhos de Ferro, 2 1100-105 Lisboa Telefone: 218 842 300 Fax: 218842514
The Tropical Research Institute has wide photographic collection, made within the Portuguese colonial context, mostly deposited and available in the Overseas Historical Archive (AHU). Created in 1931 under the Ministry of the Colonies, which preceded the Overseas Ministry, currently the AHU holds several funds and photographic collections, many of them already online. The collections addresses both scientific activity of Junta das Investigações do Ultramar (current IICT) during the 131 years of the institution, and activities related to the colonial administration (Ministry of Overseas), and also some private donations. Here are some examples: Collection Agência Geral do Ultramar (composed of 4194 photographic prints and 8008 negatives, corresponding to only a part of the Photographic Archive of the institution); Collection Centro de Estudos Históricos Ultramarinos, 1938-1954 (1549 photographic prints in albums); Collection Provas Antigas (composed 2462 prints); Collection Retratos de Indígenas de Moçambique de Jörg Schau, 1948 (29 photographic prints); Collection Gabriel Mauricio Teixeira, 1946 to 1956 (1503 photographic prints in 36 albums); Collection Elmano Cunha and Costa in Angola, 1935-1939 (8718 negatives); Collection Emile Marini, 1957 (1452 photographic prints for the book “Goa através da minha objectiva”); Collection Military Portraits (965 photographic prints, organized by patents, the Ministry of Navy and Overseas); Collection Missões Geográficas e Geodésicas (5365 collection of glass plate and film negatives, reporting the Geographic, Geodesic, Geological, Hydrographic and delimitation of borders missions in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea, Macau, Mozambique and Sao Tome for Cartography Commission, between 1890 and 1936 and Junta das Investigações do Ultramar). There are other collections such as the Zoological, Anthropological, Botanical, Forestry, Archaeological and Soil Missions etc., that still requires treatment and access. These photographic collections have been digitized and available online in the Arquivo Científico Tropical – Digital Repository.
Calçada da Boa Hora, 30 1300-095 Lisboa Telefone: 213616330 Fax: 213616339
The archive has photographs related to Angola. The twentieth century photographs are by different photographers: Alberto Carlos Lima (1 photograph); Amadeu Ferrari (6 photographs); Anselmo Franco (1 photograph); António da Silva Ayres (70 photographs); Armando Serôdio (19 photographs); Nunes Garcia (1 photograph); José Manuel Ferrari (233 photographs) and two photographs by unidentified authors. One photograph comes from the Agência Geral do Ultramar.
Rua da Palma, nº 246 1100-394 Lisboa Telefone: 218 844 060
The National Archives of Torre do Tombo have a wide range of photographic funds belonging to former companies and public institutions as well as professional photographic studios and private collections. There are some collections that relate to the Portuguese colonial context, but here we will only refer to those that have already been catalogued, treated and made accessible to the public: Agência Geral do Ultramar (formed by 2050 photographic documents from the photographic archive of this institution; part of this photographic archive is at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, as mentioned above); Companhia de Mozambique (with 5800 photographic documents); Newspaper O Século (3001 identified photographs); S.N.I. – National Secretariat of Information (with 1830 photographs of the former Portuguese colonies and 623 photographs of the section entitled "Relatório Político", which includes aspects of the presidential official visits of General Oscar Carmona and General Craveiro Lopes); José Pedro Barbosa (which includes 70 photographs by Manoel Romão Pereira, from the Mission of Mariano de Carvalho to Mozambique Province, in 1890 and from the magazine Panorama (707 photographs and postcards of the twentieth century). There are other similar collections, such as the Craveiro Lopes Collection consisting of photographic albums presented to the Portuguese President during his visits. The albums were donated by the family to the Photographic Library of the Palácio Foz in 1988 and transferred to the National Archives of Torre do Tombo in 1999.
Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo Alameda da Universidade 1649-010 Lisboa Telefone: 210 037 100 Fax: 210 037 101
There are only a few photographs and a photographic album at the National Library of Ajuda: 2 photographs of the Portuguese Expedition to Central and Southern Africa, in 1877 - showing maritime material (weapons and boat); 2 photographs of the Cape Verde Islands (undated, Nineteenth-Century); 2 photographs of the Cape Verde Islands (1886); 11 photographs of Macau: Celebration of the 4th Centenary of the Discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama (1498-1898) – Macau’s Monuments and Places. The photographic album refers to the Mission of Mariano de Carvalho to the Province of Mozambique, in 1890, with 113 photographs by the photographer Manoel Romão Pereira.
Palácio Nacional da Ajuda 1340-021 Lisboa Telefone: 213638592 Fax: 213638592
The Photographic Archive has black-and-white photographs and colour slides of different expeditions carried out within the activities of the Centre of Geographical Studies. The authors of the photographs belong to various researchers of this Centre, including Ilídio Amaral, Orlando Ribeiro, Raquel Soeiro de Brito and Suzanne Daveau. Among the different collections, 1456 photographic documents were identified. The authors of the photographs of the colonial period, especially between 1946 and 1956 are Orlando Ribeiro and Raquel Soeiro de Brito. The main places photographed places are Cape Verde; Guinea; Portuguese India and Sao Tome and Principe.
Edifício da Faculdade de Letras Alameda da Universidade 1600-214 Lisboa Telefone: 217940218 / 217965469 Fax: 217938690
The Portuguese Centre of Photography in Oporto is one of the main Portuguese institutions dedicated to the conservation and study of photography. With 92 funds and collections, the Portuguese Centre of Photography also has collections related to the Portuguese colonial context. Collection Alberto Marçal Brandão (178 photographs taken within the Comissão de Demarcação dos limites de Tete, Mozambique, 1904-1905); the Alcídia and Luis Viegas Belchior Collection (169 photographs of the former Portuguese colonies and the Álbum África Occidental, 4 volumes, by the photographer Cunha Moraes); the collection Fotografia Alvão, which includes photographs of the Ist Portuguese Colonial Exhibition, held in Oporto in 1934, as Domingos Alvão was the official photographer of the exhibition. The “Photo Albums” collection includes several albums referring to the former Portuguese colonies. Some examples: Colecção de photografias relativas ao Caminho de Ferro de Lourenço Marques (47 photographs dating from 1888 to 1905?); Costumes e Tipos do Distrito de Timor (60 photographs dating from 1890 to 1910); Missão de Delimitação de Angola-Congo Belga, from 1921 to 1924); Missão de Demarcação da Fronteira Sueste de Angola (91 photographs, dating from 1914); Missão de Delimitação da Fronteira Sul d’Angola (58 photographs, 1920). There are also other albums still being catalogued or that require special authorization to be seen. There are other collections waiting for cataloguing and therefore not accessible to the public.
Edifício da Ex-Cadeia e Tribunal da Relação do Porto Largo Amor de Perdição 4050-008 Porto Telefone: 220046300 Fax: 220 046 301
The Foundation has documentary and photographic collections relevant to the 20th century history of Portugal and its former colonies. Some funds are: Ana, Luis and Pedro Nogueira de Lemos, with photographs and postcards of Sao Tome and Principe (189); Amilcar Cabral (1357 photographs); INEP, Instituto Nacional de Estudo e Pesquisa, which includes photographs of the Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa (1455 photographs); Mario and Alice Chicó with photographs of the trip which took them to Goa, Daman and Diu in 1951, funded by the Overseas Mission Board in order to make an inventory of the monuments of Portuguese India, and with the participation of Mário Chicó, the Architect Humberto Reis, Director of the DGEMN – Direcção Geral dos Edífícios e Monumentos Nacionais, and the photographer Carvalho Henriques (5408 photographs in total).
Rua de S. Bento, nº 160 1200-821 Lisboa Telefone: 213964179/213964185 Fax: 213964156
The Division of Photographic Documentation of the General Department of Cultural Heritage has photographs and photographic postcards of the twentieth century. Of the former Portuguese colonies, the Photographic Documentation Division has photographs of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. In addition to a collection of 163 postcards of Angola, the Photographic Documentation Section also holds 206 photographs, including 16 undated photographs of Santiago Island, Cape Verde; 38 photographs of Guinea-Bissau, dated 1900 and attributed to A. Reya Fields; 118 photographs by the photographer Manoel Romão Pereira, Álbum da Missão de Mariano de Carvalho, in 1890; and 33 photographs of different aspects of gardens and landscapes of Sao Tome and Principe, from the Álbum de S. Tomé, undated and without an identified author.
Calçada do Mirante à Ajuda Nº 10-A 1300-418 Lisboa Telefone: 213617120/22/27 Fax: 213617129
The National Palace of Ajuda holds 205 photographs relating to the "Royal Visit – Expedition of D. Afonso to India between 1895 and 1896." The photographs, in two different albums, reveal some aspects of the voyage, with pictures of the members that accompanied the Prince, as well as army officers who controlled the territory. There are also scenes and views of the capital city of Pangim, with details of some streets - Rua Affonso de Albuquerque or Rua D. João de Castro – the Government Palace, or the Convent of Bom Jesus. In addition to this important collection, the National Palace of Ajuda also has three photographs with views of a photographic exhibition, in 1900, held in the Geographical Society of Lisbon (Sociedade de Geografia).
Largo da Ajuda 1349-021 Lisboa Telefone: 213637095/ 213620264 Fax: 2136 648 223
The Geographical Society of Lisbon has an extensive photographic collection, with c. 30,000 documents, mostly dating from the nineteenth century, but also from the twentieth century of the territories of the former Portuguese colonies: Angola; Cape Verde; Guinea; Portuguese India (Goa, Daman and Diu); Macau; Mozambique; Sao Tome and Principe; Timor. The photographic collections reveal the role that the Geographical Society had in different scientific and military expeditions and in the demarcation of boundaries, especially in Africa. But they also include its cultural activities, particularly in the promotion Congresses and Exhibitions in Lisbon. The collections are not catalogued and therefore, until now it has only been possible to identify 209 photographs relating to India.
Rua Portas de Santo Antão 1150-269 Lisboa Telefone: 213425401 Fax: 213464553
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Avenida de Berna, 45A 1067-001 Lisboa Telefone: 217823598 Fax: 217823044 E-Mail Website Online Resource
Campo Grande, 83 1749-081 Lisboa Telefone: 217982000 Fax: 217982138 E-Mail Website
Largo do Colégio s/n 9500-085 Ponta Delgada Telefone: 296 282 085 Fax: 217982138 E-Mail Website Online Resource
Rua Visconde Vila Maior, 50 5160-298 Torre de Moncorvo Telefone: 279258350 Fax: 217982138 E-Mail Website
Rua de São Nicolau, 105 1100-548 Lisboa Telefone: 213 256 300 Fax: 213 471 904 E-Mail Website
Departamento de Botânica Calçada Martim de Freitas Arcos do Jardim 3001-455 Coimbra Telefone: 239855233 Fax: 239855210 E-Mail Online Resource Website
Photography within the Portuguese colonial archive and museum(1850-1950)