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Old Calabar [photograph] : View from Consulate Looking up River
ca. 1895
Africa; Nigeria -- History -- 1851-1899; Oil Rivers Protectorate -- 1885-1893; Niger Coast Protectorate -- 1893-1899
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.
View from the Consulate, Old Calabar, looking up river. From left to right; river, road, and a hospital; Niger Coast Protectorate (Oil Rivers), ca. 1895. Accompanying caption reads, "View from Consulate, Old Calabar: Looking up River.".
- Collection
- Macdonald Calabar photographs
- Catalog date
- ca. 1895
- Recorded places
- Africa; Nigeria -- History -- 1851-1899; Oil Rivers Protectorate -- 1885-1893; Niger Coast Protectorate -- 1893-1899
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- MacDonald, Claude Maxwell, Sir, 1852-1915
- Format and extent
- 1 Print (b&w, 15 x 19.5 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1996-019_ref511
Collection: Macdonald Calabar photographs