Dahomey Ouidah, Une mariage
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA DM-23-02
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. 1910]
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 1985-144035
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 groom in a top hat and tuxedo, hand-in-hand with bride who is wearing a long white dress and veil. Behind them are several people, most of them dressed in formal European attire. Printed text on recto reads: "Dahomey - Ouidah, Une mariage." Translated caption reads: [Dahomey Ouidah, A Wedding].
label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed text on verso includes publishers logo: "Collection ["FS" or "SF"]." and series number: "6256."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Items EEPA DM-23-01 and EEPA DM-23-02 bear slightly altered versions of the same recto image.