Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Dakar Africans Diving
[19--]
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 men jumping from canoes into the water. Text on front reads: "103. DAKAR - Noirs plongeant pour attraper des sous." (Black people diving for coins.) Text on verso reads: "Carte Postale; Ce cote est exclusivement reserve a l'adresse.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)
- Catalog date
- [19--]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Senegal
- Recorded subjects
- Transportation
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1985-014_ref696
Collection: African Postcard Collection