archival materials
Saturday, January 02, 2021 - Sunday, June 13, 2021
Todd Webb collected a variety of ephemera, from tourist brochures to hotel stationery, as well as gifts presented to him by dignitaries, schoolchildren, and colleagues in the field. These objects, in addition to his own journal and letters to his wife, provide insight into his everyday routines and experiences while he photographed diverse cultural regions of Africa.
Webb had never been to the continent, and his activities as a professional often converged with those of a sightseer; he saved ticket stubs along with official invitations as souvenirs. In addition to prints developed by Webb himself, the exhibition cases display drawings made for Webb by schoolchildren in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and the only United Nations publication in which 22 of his photographs in Africa appear.
![watercolor drawing of an exterior scene in a village; a male and female figure in the LL corner; birds in the UL corner; trees and rocks along R side](https://1.api.artsmia.org/400/137971.jpg)
Drawing given to Todd Webb by a student at the Vocational School in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe)
Unknown Rhodesian artist
![watercolor drawing of three trees in the foreground and two buildings in the background nestled between blue hills](https://0.api.artsmia.org/400/137970.jpg)
Drawing given to Todd Webb by a student at the Vocational School in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe)
Unknown Rhodesian artist
![Booklet with black and white photos inside; image on cover is of a goatherd following his herd](https://3.api.artsmia.org/400/137952.jpg)
Cover Image, “United Nations Photos, Supplement No. 7,” United Nations Office of Public Information
Publisher: United Nations Office of Public Information
![Black and white image of people sitting in a room with semi-circular walls and desks](https://3.api.artsmia.org/400/138120.jpg)
"A Continent Awakes," Mogadishu, Somalia, UN information Services PR Photograph
Todd Webb
![Color image of a man in a white uniform looking to the viewer's left; teal body of water in the background](https://6.api.artsmia.org/400/138123.jpg)
“Magadiscio [sic], Somaliland, A Continent Awakes,” UN information Services PR Photograph
Todd Webb
![Black and white image of a man using a telescope on a tripod](https://0.api.artsmia.org/400/138124.jpg)
"A Continent Awakes," Arusha, Tanganyika, UN information Services PR Photograph
Todd Webb
![Black and white image of figures wearing white seated in a classroom](https://4.api.artsmia.org/400/138121.jpg)
"Progress in the Sudan," Barkat, Sudan, UN Information Services PR Photograph
Todd Webb
![Black and white image of figures standing outside; two central figures drink tea and one smokes a cigarette](https://5.api.artsmia.org/400/138122.jpg)