Alfred Duggan-Cronin � Photographer

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Three gifted photographers recorded aspects of life in this country roughly in the period 1890 to 1950. They are WC Willoughby, Alfred Duggan-Cronin and Isaac Schapera.

The Willoughby collection is now held by the National Archives, courtesy of Neil Parsons who engineered the bequest from the descendant family in England; the Duggan–Cronin collection is held by the McGregor Museum in Kimberley and Isaac Schapera’s archival photos are in the possession of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. 

The collections are very different. Willoughby, an LMS missionary, took photos of places such as Old Palapye as well as studies of personalities such as Khama and his daughters, and of his son, Sekgoma.

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