Congo Franc̥ais Les bords du Niari à Loudina
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Audema 0043
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Place
- Africa
- Congo (Brazzaville)
- Topic
- Landscapes -- natural
- Domestic animals
- Provenance
- JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 12: Congo Français (CF) / Audema
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
- Date
- [ca. 1905]
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA 1985-140006
- 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
- Translated caption reads ''French Congo. The banks of the Niari at Loudina''. General overview of the river with oxes in the foreground. Postmarked stamp recto. Verso addressed to ''Mr. P. Le Quement. Ouhamé-Nana. Fort-Sibut. 0.C.T'' Congo Franc̥ais. Photograph by J. Audema. Ouhamé-Nana was a French concessionary company operating in Kémo province, where Fort-Sibut, a town in Kémo province in the Ubangi-Shari colony, was located. Oubangui-Chari-Tchad (Ubangi-Shari-Chad) [O.C.T.] was a large colony in French Equatorial Africa. Mr. P. Le Quement was a concessionary company agent working for the Ouhamé-Nana first in Batangafo, then in Fort-Sibut [1912-1914].
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087778-5
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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