Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Simon Ottenberg (Postcards)
1800s-1900s
Africa, West; Lagos (Nigeria); Freetown (Sierra Leone)
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.
Cataloged as “Simon Ottenberg (Postcards)” (Collection descriptions; Postcards).
- Collection
- Simon Ottenberg (Postcards)
- Catalog date
- 1800s-1900s
- Recorded places
- Africa, West; Lagos (Nigeria); Freetown (Sierra Leone)
- Recorded subjects
- Gods, Yoruba
- Format and extent
- 5 Postcards
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.2015-004
Collection: Simon Ottenberg (Postcards)