Ladies of Lagos
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Lagos (Nigeria)
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content: West African photographs
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Print (albumen., b&w, 16 x 11 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1890
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Enrica Sturani, 1995.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1995-017, Item EEPA 1995-170012
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
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content: Group portrait of three ladies dressed-up in fine clothes of Eurpoean fashion. Two of the women are each holding a book while the third is holding a basket of flowers, Lagos, Nigeria, between 1877-1895. Accompanying inscription reads, "Ladies of Lagos in Fancy Ball Dresses, Flora - Virginia - Eugenia, figlis .. Corvallis e Balbina." Photographer unknown.