Zululand

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.

Postcard of six Africans posing by a Singer sewing machine. Caption on verso reads: "Zululand. This is a fertile, well-watered country of South Africa, on the Indian Ocean, and forms a part of the region known as Kaffraria. The native Zulus are a fine warlike people of the Bantu stock, speaking the Bantu language. This language extends over more than half of Africa and is one of great beauty and flexibility. The Zulu bids fair to be as forward in civilization as he has been in war. Our group represents the Zulus after less than a century of civilization. Worth wins everywhere. Our agent at Cape Town supplies both European and Native inhabitants of Zululand, the Transvaal, and Free Orange State with thousands of Singer Machines. The Singer Manufacturing Co.".

Collection

African Postcard Collection

Archival grouping

African Postcard Collection / Series 41: South Africa (SA)

Catalog date

1892

Recorded places

Africa; South Africa; Zululand (South Africa)

Recorded subjects

Industries; Singer Manufacturing Company, Ltd

Format and extent

1 Postcard (letterpress halftone., color, 9 x 16 cm.)

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