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A Day Nursery In Africa
[19--]
Africa; Benin
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 image of a group of children, a European nun, and a couple of young African women beside a building. Text on front, bottom reads: "Une creche en Afrique noire." Text on front, top reads: "Souers Missionaires de Notre-Dame des Apotres; Venissieux (Rhone)." Text on verso reads: "Carte Postale.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 4: Benin (Dahomey) (DM)
- Catalog date
- [19--]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Benin
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 14 x 9 cm.)
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1985-014_ref8661
Collection: African Postcard Collection