Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Secretary of the Colonies Dahomey
[ca. 1908]
Africa
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.
Photographed by Edmond Fortier and published by Collection générale Fortier, Dakar. Original caption reads, "Voyage du Ministre des Colonies a ̀la Cot̂e d'Afrique - Dahomey - Arriveé dans Cotonou." Translated original caption reads, "The Secretary of the Colonies' journey to the Western African Coast - Dahomey - Arrival to Cotonou.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 49: Fortier postcard collection
- Catalog date
- [ca. 1908]
- Recorded places
- Africa
- Recorded subjects
- Leaders
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA F2615
Collection: African Postcard Collection