Polling agents getting instructions for the December 12, 1959 federal elections, Lagos, Nigeria
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: 58482 1 25

 C 2 NIG 17.12 EEE 59
label: General
content: Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
label: Local Note
content: Selgem EE10952500
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content: Photograph appeared in Life Magazine.
label: Local Note
content: A photographic print resides in the collection.
label: Local Note
content: Series Reference: 17.12.
label: Local Note
content: Frame value is 15.
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content: Slide No. C 2 NIG 17.12 EEE 59
name: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
label: Collection Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Nigeria
topic: label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Signs and symbols
creator: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
setName: label: See more items in
content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection
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content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Nigeria
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 1857
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Original title reads, "Polling agents getting instructions for Dec. 12 federal elections from Robert N. Rapson, M.V.O., a senior assistant secretary in the office of the prime minister, who was assigned as electoral officer for Lagos. All the polling agents at the 283 polling stations in Lagos were employes of the government or of public corporations. Lagos elected three of the 312 members of the federal house of representatives." [Elisofon field notes, August 1959-December 1959]
label: Scope and Contents
content: This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.