Polling agents getting instructions for the December 12, 1959 federal elections, Lagos, Nigeria

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.

Original title reads, "Polling agents getting instructions for Dec. 12 federal elections from Robert N. Rapson, M.V.O., a senior assistant secretary in the office of the prime minister, who was assigned as electoral officer for Lagos. All the polling agents at the 283 polling stations in Lagos were employes of the government or of public corporations. Lagos elected three of the 312 members of the federal house of representatives." [Elisofon field notes, August 1959-December 1959] This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

Collection

Eliot Elisofon Field collection

Archival grouping

Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Nigeria

Catalog date

1959

Recorded places

Africa; Nigeria

Cataloged creator or photographer

Elisofon, Eliot

Recorded subjects

Education; Signs and symbols

Format and extent

1 Slides (photographs) (col.)

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