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Cameroun Petite fille de Foumban - Helena
ca. 1924
Africa; Cameroon; Cameroon -- West -- Noun -- Foumban
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.
Printed text on recto reads: "Cameroun / Petite fille de Foumban - Helena." Translated caption reads: "Cameroon / Little girl from Foumban - Helena." Manuscript message and address on verso, date reads: "21 Sept 1924." Photograph possibly taken by Anna Rein-Wuhrmann.
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 7: Cameroon (CM)
- Catalog date
- ca. 1924
- Recorded places
- Africa; Cameroon; Cameroon -- West -- Noun -- Foumban
- Recorded subjects
- Portrait photography -- Africa; Hairstyles -- Africa
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CM 2011-001-0373
Collection: African Postcard Collection