Congo No. 24. Voyage en hammac

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Object Details

Creator

Visser, Robert, 1860-1937

Collection Citation

African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Scope and Contents

Man reclining in a hammock while carried by two porters, French Congo (now Republic of the Congo); photographed by Robert Visser, 1882-1894; publisher unknown; postmarked February 27, 1904. Original caption reads, "Congo No. 24. Voyage en hamac."

Manuscript note on recto. Postmarked postage stamps and address on verso.

Items EEPA CF-47-10, EEPA CF-47-11, and EEPA CF-47-12 are duplicate postcards.

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GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/xo7ff016ec0-f090-41a3-b890-fde39a72ac13

Local Numbers

EEPA CF-47-12

General

Title source: Postcard caption.

Citation source: Archives staff.

Place

Africa

Congo (Brazzaville)

Topic

Transportation

Hammocks

Provenance

JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase; 1992.

Creator

Visser, Robert, 1860-1937

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African Postcard Collection

African Postcard Collection / Series 12: Congo Français (CF)

Extent

1 Postcard (collotype, b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)

Date

[ca. 1904]

Container

Volume 2 CF

Archival Repository

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Identifier

EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CF 1985-140717

Type

Archival materials

Postcards

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

MacGaffey, Wyatt. "Astonishment & Power," Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, p. 45.

Recto image appears in the article: "Robert Visser and his photographs from the Loango Coast," by Katrin Adler and Christine Stelzig, African Arts, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Winter, 2002), p. 40.

Genre/Form

Postcards

Collection Restrictions

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EEPA

Record ID

ebl-1536871081657-1536871087835-5

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