26. Matadi Aspect du port à l'arrivée d'un vapeur
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA CG-47-50
label: General
content: Title source: Postcard caption.
label: General
content: Citation source: Archives staff.
label: Numbering Peculiarities Note
content: Verso labeled with former accession number format: A1993-19-11.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bas-Congo Province -- Matadi
topic: label: Topic
content: Transportation
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: Lower left corner torn.
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1919
container: label: Container
content: Volume 5 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 1993-019-0011
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 caption on recto reads: "26. Matadi; Aspect du port à l'arrivée d'un vapeur." Translated postcard caption reads: "26. Matadi. View of the port on the arrival of a steamer."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Manuscript message and address on verso, message reads: "Matadi, Belgian Congo. Oct. 20, 1919. Howdy, this looks like some port, but it is just like all the rest of them. It is really the best one we have stayed at since Dakar."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Postcard likely part of series created by "J. I. P.," corner which could have borne the photographer/publisher's mark is missing.