Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Femmes du Zanzibar
c. 1920
Africa; Zanzibar
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.
Text on recto reads: "Femmes du Zanzibar - Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame d'Afrique. Saint Charles - Birmandreis (Alger)." Translated postcard caption reads, "Women from Zanzibar.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 43: Tanzania and Zanzibar (TZ)
- Catalog date
- c. 1920
- Recorded places
- Africa; Zanzibar
- Recorded subjects
- Portraits
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 14 x 8.8 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA TZ 1996-005-035
Collection: African Postcard Collection