Sénégal Un vieux serviteur de la France

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.

Text on front reads: "Sénégal. - Un vieux serviteur de la France. Moumar Sall, interprète, mort en 1907 à 92 ans." Translated postcard caption reads, "Senegal. - Old man at the service of France. Moumar Sall, interpreter, past away in 1907. He was 92 years old." Additional handwritten text on verso reads, "Bien inquiet et surpris de ne pas avoir de vos nouvelles depuis une infinite de temps! Qu'y a-t-il? Seriez-vous gravement malade? Bien affectueusement a tous." Translated handwritten text on verso reads, "Quite worried and surprised not to have news from you for an infinity of time. What's wrong? Could you be gravely ill? Very affectionately.".

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)

Catalog date

[19--]

Recorded places

Africa; Senegal

Recorded subjects

Portraits

Format and extent

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

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