Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Normal School For Girls Dahomey
[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 three rows of girls and young women, seated, as well as a back row of young women, standing. A European nun stands in the back row. Text on front reads: "8.- Ecole Normale de Filles (Dahomey)." Additional text on front reads: "Collection des Missions Africaines." Text on verso reads: "Carte Postale; Postkaart; (Cote reserve a l'adresse. - Zijde voor het adres alleen.)".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 4: Benin (Dahomey) (DM)
- Catalog date
- [19--]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Benin
- Recorded subjects
- Education
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (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: sova.eepa.1985-014_ref8662
Collection: African Postcard Collection
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