Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Cotonou Dahomey
[ca. 1908]
Africa
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.
Photographed by Edmond Fortier and published by Collection générale Fortier, Dakar. Original caption reads, "Afrique Occidentale - Dahomey - Cotonou - Débarquement des Passagers au treuil du Wharf." Translated original caption reads, "Western Coast of Africa - Dahomey - Cotonou - Passengers transfer to the wharf by hand-winch.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 49: Fortier postcard collection
- Catalog date
- [ca. 1908]
- Recorded places
- Africa
- Recorded subjects
- Transportation
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (col., 9 x 14 cm.)
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA F3045
Collection: African Postcard Collection