Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
St. Louis, Senegal Bastille Day Races (The Fourteenth of July)
[ca. 1919]
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 the start of a horse-race. Text on front reads: "141 - St. Louis (Senegal) - Les Courses du 14 Juillet." Handwritten and dated message on front. On front: "P. Tacher, phot. St-Louis." Text on verso reads: "Carte Postale; Tous les pays etrangers n'acceptent pas la correspondance au recto (se renseigner a la poste); Correspondance; Adresse." Additional handwritten message on verso.
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)
- Catalog date
- [ca. 1919]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Senegal
- Recorded subjects
- Recreation
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1985-014_ref645
Collection: African Postcard Collection