Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Street near Independence House, Tafawa Balewa square, Onikan, Lagos, Nigeria
circa 1969-1994
Nigeria
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.
Independence House, also known as Defense House, is a 25 story office building in Tafawa Balewa Square.
- Collection
- Barbara Blackmun Collection
- Archival grouping
- Barbara Blackmun Collection / Series 4: Landscape and Street Scenes, Nigeria / Lagos, Nigeria
- Catalog date
- circa 1969-1994
- Recorded places
- Nigeria
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Blackmun, Barbara Winston, 1928-2018
- Recorded subjects
- Architecture
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.2016-012, Item EEPA 2016-012-1369
Collection: Barbara Blackmun Collection