Addis Ababa postcard album
odd: label: General note
content: Title provided by EEPA staff.
place: label: Place
content: Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
label: Place
content: Africa
abstract: label: Summary
content: This album contains postcards of religious sites and cultural/natural landscapes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The postcards provide historical views of the city and names of churches and official buildings. The album binding was handmade by an Italian military official during the Ethiopian campaign in 1935-1936 and has a beautifully painted cover with the title Addis Abeba in Italian and Amharic, as well as an Italian coat of arms and official seal.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Between October 1935 and May 1936, a brief colonial war was fought between the Ethiopian Empire (also known as Abyssinia) and the Kingdom of Italy. This conflict would become known as the Second Italo--byssinian War (or the Second Italo-Ethiopian War). Italy sought to avenge its losses in the First Italo-Abyssinian War and to unify Italian-held Eritrea and Italian Somaliland by acquiring Ethiopia. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI). Although Emperor Haile Selassie I was forced into exile in England, Ethiopia never capitulated or surrendered, and the country was eventually liberated in 1941 by the Allied Forces.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 48 Postcards (Album, color.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1935
container: label: Container
content: Item EEPA.2008-006
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased from Alvin Pettit Productions (Kevin Jackson), 2008.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2008-006
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Albums
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
label: Genre/Form
content: Albums