Une noce du high-life Mission du Benin

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 a groom in a top hat and tuxedo, hand-in-hand with bride who is wearing a long white dress and veil. Behind them are several people, most of them dressed in formal European attire. Printed text on recto reads: "Une noce du high-life. Mission du Benin." Translated caption reads: [A High-Life Wedding. Benin Mission.] Additional printed text on recto reads: "M.A." Printed text on verso reads: "Carte Postale; Correspondance; Adresse." Publisher's logo on verso. Items EEPA DM-23-01 and EEPA DM-23-02 bear slightly altered versions of the same recto image.

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 4: Benin (Dahomey) (DM)

Catalog date

[ca. 1910]

Recorded places

Africa; Benin

Recorded subjects

Rites and ceremonies -- Africa; Weddings -- Africa

Format and extent

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

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