3. Kinshasa La Poste

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

Printed caption on recto reads: "3. Kinshasa - La Poste." Translated postcard caption reads: "3. Kinshasa - The Post Office." Manuscript message and address on verso, message reads: "We are now permanently in England. Address "Chez Nous", Carlaw Rond, Prenton Cheshire. Dear Mary and Frans, We have just packed up and are returning to England permanently. We have bought a nice house and should be very happy. We hope you are fit and well and the children are happy. Our great friends the Bovettes are now permanently in Rotterdam and we are sure you will like them, they are so charming. If Frans can help them to find a house. I am sure they will be exceedingly grateful. Regards to you all and send our regards to ...." Postmarks on verso. Postage stamp removed.

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 11: Congo Belge (CG)

Catalog date

ca. 1949

Recorded places

Africa; Congo (Democratic Republic); Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Kinshasa Province -- Kinshasa

Recorded subjects

Cityscape photography

Format and extent

1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)

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