This document provides an overview of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives collection of photographer Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge at the National Museum of African Art. It describes Alonge's career as photographer to the Royal Court of Benin from 1933 to 1978, and documents the preservation and digitization efforts of Alonge's glass plate negatives, film negatives, photographs and albums. These preservation phases were funded by the Smithsonian Institution and involved housing the materials in archival enclosures, duplicating and digitizing the negatives, and surveying Alonge's artifacts. The collection documents Alonge's studio portraits from the 1930s-1950s, royal family photographs, and commemorative objects he created to memorialize the Ob