Congo Franc̥ais Les bords du Niari à Loudina

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 caption reads ''French Congo. The banks of the Niari at Loudina''. General overview of the river with oxes in the foreground. Postmarked stamp recto. Verso addressed to ''Mr. P. Le Quement. Ouhamé-Nana. Fort-Sibut. 0.C.T'' Congo Franc̥ais. Photograph by J. Audema. Ouhamé-Nana was a French concessionary company operating in Kémo province, where Fort-Sibut, a town in Kémo province in the Ubangi-Shari colony, was located. Oubangui-Chari-Tchad (Ubangi-Shari-Chad) [O.C.T.] was a large colony in French Equatorial Africa. Mr. P. Le Quement was a concessionary company agent working for the Ouhamé-Nana first in Batangafo, then in Fort-Sibut [1912-1914].

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 12: Congo Français (CF) / Audema

Catalog date

[ca. 1905]

Recorded places

Africa; Congo (Brazzaville)

Recorded subjects

Landscapes -- natural; Domestic animals

Format and extent

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

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