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DUGGAN-CRONIN, Alfred Martin : A 1 Page Autograph Letter to Mrs. Abbott, Kimberley 30th March 1936

The letter is on a folded pale grey sheet, slightly foxed. Sold together witha later invoice and receipt made out to the same correspondent, documenting the purchase of three of Duggan-Cronin's books. Duggan-Cronin thanks Mrs Abbott for her "words of thanks", and expressses his pleasure that "Kimberley has risen to the occasion re the suitable housing of my native studies. The site secured is an excellent one.....". Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin was an Irish-born South African photographer who undertook several photographic and collecting expeditions in South Africa and adjacent territories between 1919 and 1939, in the course of which he documented people and rural life throughout the subcontinent. Based in Kimberley, it was while working in the mine compounds that he initially encountered African migrant workers, stimulating an interest in ethnographic subjects. Duggan-Cronin was born on 17 May 1874 in Innishannon, County Cork, Ireland, and died on 25 August 1954 in Kimberley, South Africa. A significant number of his photographs were published in The Bantu Tribes of South Africa: Reproductions of Photographic Studies by A.M. Duggan-Cronin, eleven volumes of which appeared under the imprint of the McGregor Memorial Museum, Kimberley, between 1928 and 1954. In 1925 he opened his first 'Bantu Gallery' at his home on Kimberley's outskirts, his collection of some 8,000 photographs and ethnographic objects being more permanently housed at what was named the Duggan-Cronin Bantu Gallery at The Lodge in Kimberley from the late 1930s. They are commonly regarded as being amongst the greatest African ethnological photographs ever taken,

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