Cameroun L'entrée du "Palais royal" à Foumban
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA CM-03-01
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Creator
- Société des Missions Évangéliques (Paris, France)
- Photographer
- Rein-Wuhrmann, Anna, 1881-1971
- See Also
- Cameroon, West, Noun, Foumban (5.728629, 10.90184)
- Place
- Africa
- Cameroon
- Cameroon -- West -- Noun -- Foumban
- Topic
- Works of art in situ
- Sculpture
- Vernacular architecture -- Africa
- Costume -- Africa
- Provenance
- Alvin Pettit Productions (Kevin Jackson), 34 Astor Place, Jersey City, NJ 07304-2943; Purchase: PO-570-0000178360; 20090630 EEPA 2009-010
- Creator
- Société des Missions Évangéliques (Paris, France)
- Photographer
- Rein-Wuhrmann, Anna, 1881-1971
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 7: Cameroon (CM)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Condition
- Stains on verso
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CM 2009-010-011
- 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.
- Bibliography
- Recto image published in Rein-Wuhrmann, Anna. "Vier Jahre im Grasland von Kamerun," Basel: basler Missionsbuchhandlung, 1917. p. 35.
- Genre/Form
- Picture postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Printed text on recto reads: "Cameroun / L'entrée du "Palais royal" à Foumban."
- Translated caption reads: "Cameroon / Entrance to the "Royal Palace" in Foumban."
- Additional printed text on recto reads: "Edit. des Missions Évangéliques, 102 Bd Arago, Paris."
- Manuscript on verso reads: "163."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087515-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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