Congo No. 24. Voyage en hammac
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA CF-47-10
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Citation source: Archives staff.
- Creator
- Visser, Robert, 1860-1937
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- Topic
- Portrait photography
- Transportation
- Hammocks
- Creator
- Visser, Robert, 1860-1937
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 12: Congo Français (CF)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype, b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- ca. 1900
- Container
- Volume 2 CF
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CF 1985-140540-02
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Picture postcards
- Collection Citation
- African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Picture postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Printed caption on recto reads: "Congo. / No. 24. Voyage en hammac."
- Translated caption reads: "Congo / No. 24. Traveling in a hammock."
- Additional printed text on recto reads: "Photographie R. Visser, Déposé."
- Items EEPA CF-47-10, EEPA CF-47-11, and EEPA CF-47-12 are duplicate postcards.
- Recto image appears in the article: "Robert Visser and his photographs from the Loango Coast," by Katrin Adler and Christine Stelzig, African Arts, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Winter, 2002), p. 40.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087814-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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