Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Group Portrait of Four Men
ca. 1890
Africa; Lagos (Nigeria)
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.
Group portrait of four men streetside, dressed in various costumes, posing before an apparent canvas painted with a stone facade, Lagos, Nigeria, between 1877-1895. Accompanying inscription is illegible. Photographer unknown.
- Collection
- West African photographs
- Catalog date
- ca. 1890
- Recorded places
- Africa; Lagos (Nigeria)
- Format and extent
- 1 Print (albumen, b&w, 12 x 16 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1995-017, Item EEPA 1995-170011
Collection: West African photographs