Congo Chute du Lumbula dans le Louloua
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA CG-14-14
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Citation source: Archives staff.
- Photographer
- Demeuse, M.
- Creator
- Nells (Brussels)
- See Also
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kasaï-Occidental Province, Lulua river (-5.334037, 21.418533)
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- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Kasaï-Occidental Province -- Lulua river
- Topic
- Landscape -- Photographs
- Photographer
- Demeuse, M.
- Creator
- Nells (Brussels)
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 11: Congo Belge (CG)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- ca. 1892
- Container
- Volume 2 CG
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CG 2011-001-0831
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- 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
- Postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Translated postcard caption reads, "Congo. Falls of Lumbula in the Louloua."
- Printed text on verso reads: "Ed. Nels, Bruxelles, Serie 14, No. 52." Publisher's logo on recto and verso: "Nels."
- Recto image possibly created by photographer M. Demeuse, as published in "Le Congo Illustré: Voyages et travaux des Belges dans l'état indépendant du Congo," Bruxelles: Weissenbroch, v. 1, 1892, p. 146. Location identified as the Loumboula waterfall near the trading post of the Upper Congo Society (la Société du Haut-Congo) at Luebo.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087630-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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