Environs de DAKAR (Sénégal) Ile de Gorée, le Débarcadère
Object Details
- General
- Image indexed by negative number.
- Local Note
- Additional handwritten number on verso reads, "1985-147134."
- Place
- Africa
- Senegal
- Gorée (Senegal)
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- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- [19--]
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA SG-06-28
- Type
- Archival materials
- 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
- Text on recto reads: "Environs de DAKAR (Sénégal) - Ile de Gorée - Le Débarcadère."
- Translated postcard caption reads, "DAKAR (Senegal) surroundings- Goree Island - Pier."
- Additional handwritten text on verso reads, "1- Le 6 Mars 1919. Chère amie, je vous ai envoyé deux plumes d'autruches blanches. Je n'ai pu en avoir de noirs, vous allez sans doute les recevoir pour votre fete que j'ai eu plaisir de passer avec vous, mais j'y suis de tout coeur si je ne puis y etre en personne. Je pense que vous avez bien recu toutes mes cartes. Je suis en bonne santé et j'attends avec impatience le bon vouloir de ces beaux Messieurs pour rentrer. Je crois qu'ils ne se pressent pas vite et je trouve."
- Translated handwritten text on verso reads, "1- March 6, 1919. Dear friend, I have sent to you two white ostrich feathers. I was not able to get black ones. I dare say are you will receive them at your name day celebration which I had the pleasure to spend with you, but in case I cannot attend, you have all my sympathy. I think you have received all my postcards. My health is good and am anxiously waiting for these handsome gentlemen to let me travel back home. I believe they are in no hurry."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871088391-5
- Metadata Usage
- CC0