Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
West Africa (Senegal), Dakar Fire in the Village
[ca. 1916]
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 a crowd of people watching a fire. Text on front reads: "196; Afrique Occidentale (Senegal) - DAKAR; Le feu dans la Village." On front: "Collection Gautron." Text on verso reads: "Carte Postale; Correspondance; Adresse." Handwritten and dated message and address on verso.
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)
- Catalog date
- [ca. 1916]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Senegal
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (col., 9 x 14 cm.)
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1985-014_ref669
Collection: African Postcard Collection