68 Congo Belge. Les rapides du Congo à sa sortie du Stanley-pool

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.

Translated postcard caption reads, "68 Belgian Congo. Rapids of the Congo at the outskirts of the Stanley-pool." Printed text on recto reads: "68 Congo Belge Les rapides du Congo à sa sortie du Stanley-pool / Belgisch Congo De snelstroomingen van den Congo, buiten den Stanley-Pool." Postage stamp printed on verso. Manscript date and address on verso, date reads: "le 19-7-19." Postmarks on verso. Last word of printed recto caption, "pool," crossed out and replaced with manuscript text: "ville." Items EEPA CG-14-20 and EEPA CG-14-22 are duplicate postcards.

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 11: Congo Belge (CG)

Catalog date

ca. 1919

Recorded places

Africa; Congo (Democratic Republic); Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Kinshasa Province -- Pool Malebo -- (Stanley Pool)

Recorded subjects

Landscape -- Photographs

Format and extent

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

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