Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Environs de Mombasa
c. 1900
Africa; Kenya; Kenya -- Coast province -- Mombasa
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: "Environs de Mombasa. 177." Translated postcard caption reads, "East Africa - Mombasa surroundings.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 23: Kenya (KE)
- Catalog date
- c. 1900
- Recorded places
- Africa; Kenya; Kenya -- Coast province -- Mombasa
- Recorded subjects
- Households -- Africa; Domestic scenes
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art — original record ↗
Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA KE 2009-010-101
Collection: African Postcard Collection
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