Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Benjamin Dowdin House Lagos
ca. 1890
Africa; 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.
Two-story house with a shuttered balcony in Lagos, Nigeria, between 1877-1895. Accompany inscription reads, "Benjamin Dowdin House Lagos." Photographer unknown.
- Collection
- West African photographs
- Catalog date
- ca. 1890
- Recorded places
- Africa; Lagos (Nigeria)
- Format and extent
- 1 Photographic print (albumen., b&w, 13 x 20 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1995-017, Item EEPA 1995-170008
Collection: West African photographs