13. Congo Musique de la force armée à Tumba
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA CG-38-39
label: General
content: Title source: Postcard caption.
label: General
content: Citation source: Archives staff.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
topic: label: Topic
content: Military -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Music
setName: label: See more items in
content: African Postcard Collection
label: See more items in
content: African Postcard Collection / Series 11: Congo Belge (CG)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (collotype., b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
phystech: label: Condition
content: Verso stained.
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1905
container: label: Container
content: Volume 4 CG
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA CG 2011-001-1392
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: Printed text on recto reads: "13. Congo; Musique de la force armée à Tumba." Translated postcard caption reads: "13. Congo; Band of the armed forces in Tumba."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Manuscript message on recto, address and postmark on verso.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Manuscript message on recto reads: "Ernest, par chaque courrier fais-moi le plaisir de m'adresser le journal de Paris et le crequion. Chers amis, jusqu'à ce jour j'ai joui d'une santé excellente tant sur le bateau qu'à mon arrivée en Afrique. Pour renseignements plus amples, voyez la lettre que j'ai écrite chez moi. Impossible d'écrire plus longuement, je le ferai par le prochain courrier. J'attends le plus tôt possible une lettre du Coq. Amitiés sincères. La Blanche."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Translated message reads: "Ernest, by every mail do me the favor of sending me the Paris journal and the Crequion. Dear friends, to this day I have enjoyed excellent health on the ship as well as on arrival in Africa. For more details see the letter that I have written home. Impossible to write at greater length now. I shall do that with the next mailing. I expect as soon as possible a letter from Le Coq. Yours sincerely."