Playing Warri
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA GH-12-02 EEPA GH 1996-005-0118
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Numbering Peculiarities Note
- Verso labelled with former accession number format: 1996-5-118. Additional accession number on verso: EEPA 1985-140326.
- Creator
- Methodist Book Depot Ltd. (Ghana)
- Place
- Africa
- Ghana
- Topic
- Households -- Africa
- Recreation -- Africa
- Portrait photography -- Africa
- Costume -- Africa
- Textile fabrics
- Provenance
- Postcards International; purchase; FY 1996; EEPA 1996-005
- Creator
- Methodist Book Depot Ltd. (Ghana)
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 20: Ghana (GH)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (photograph., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item Methodist Book Depots: No.66.
- 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
- Two men playing a game. Text on frontside reads: "Playing Warri." and "No.66." Handwritten address and message on verso. Text on verso reads: "Post Card; For Correspondence; 'We shall continue steadfast in faith and duty till our task is done.' - The Prime Minister; Copyright of Methodist Book Depots, Cape Coast, Gold Coast; This is a real photograph; For Address Only; Printed in Gt. Britain."
- Additional printed text on verso reads: "'We shall continue steadfast in faith and duty till our task is done.' - The Prime Minister."
- Stamp box reads: "1d. Stamp if with only sender's name and address and 5 words conventional greeting; G."
- Manuscript message and address on verso.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871088039-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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