Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Senegal Filanzana Group
[ca. 1908]
Africa; Senegal
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.
Postcard image of African men carrying a European man in a sedan chair. Text on front reads: "40. Senegal.- Type de Filanzane; Senegal.- Tipo di Filanzana." Handwritten and dated signature on front. On front: "Delmas, Dakar." "Marine Francaise" stamp on front. Text on verso: "Cartolina Postale -Carte Postale; Lato riservato alla corrispondenza; Partie reserve a la correspondance; Indirizzo; Adresse."Handwritten message and address on verso.
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)
- Catalog date
- [ca. 1908]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Senegal
- Recorded subjects
- Transportation
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1985-014_ref705
Collection: African Postcard Collection