DIRECTORY_1997#3894 new approved FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen conventionDeclaration ISAAR(CPF): Internationale norm voor archivistische geautoriseerde beschrijvingen van organisaties, personen en families, Antwerpen/Leuven/Amsterdam 2006. detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 created January 2, 2015 10:36:10 AM CET human revised March 11, 2023 2:19:40 PM CET human Person (Male) person Slosse, Eugène conventionDeclaration Amateur conventionDeclaration Brussels, 1866 - Brussels - Ixelles, 1940 1892 [Congo Free State]

<b>1892 [Congo Free State]</b> ° 29.12.1866; + 22.4.1940. An engineer, he took up a post in 1891 with the "Compagnie du Chemin de fer du Congo" and participated in the construction of the railway from Matadi to Léopoldville. Subsequently, construction of railways in the Transvaal, Argentina, Spain, Russia and, from 1904 to 1906, in China. He donated a "large collection of iconographic documents" to the "Institut International de Photographie" in 1906. It contained many of his own ethnographic photographs taken during his stay in the countries listed above.