Dahomey Sortie d'une messe de mariage à Porto-Novo
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA DM-23-03
label: General
content: Title source: Postcard caption.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Benin
topic: label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Weddings -- Africa
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase; 1992.
setName: label: See more items in
content: African Postcard Collection
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content: African Postcard Collection / Series 4: Benin (Dahomey) (DM)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1900]
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA DM 1985-144036
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Postcards
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Postcard image of a bride and groom in European wedding costume with other men and women in formal European clothing on the steps of a building. Printed text on recto reads: "Dahomey; Sortie d'une messe de mariage à Porto-Novo." Additional printed text on recto reads: "Colonies Françaises." Publisher's logo on recto.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed text on verso reads: "Carte Postale; Ce cote exclusivement reserve a l'adresse."