Inventories of the Rudolf Pöch Collection at the Photographic Collection of the Vienna Museum of Ethnology

Rudolf Pöch’s presence at the photographic collection of the Vienna Museum of Ethnology essentially consists of two comprehensive volumes of vintage prints. In 1908, museum inventories were enriched by a donation of “450 photographs of ethnic types and houses in New-Guinea, New South-Wales and Java“, followed by “185 photographs of Bushmen, Bushmen’s engravings, Hottentots, Hereros, Bastards, the ruins of Zimbabwe etc. in 1912. While the whereabouts of the former are unknown, nearly all of the latter southern African specimens still exist and have remained in a good state of conservation. However, the photographs from Pöch’s journey to India and Egypt in 1897, which one would assume in the photographic collection of the Vienna Museum of Ethnology, did not become part of the inventory.