Afrique Occidentale (Sénégal) DAKAR. Une bonne nourrice
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content: Image indexed by negative number.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
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content: Senegal
topic: label: Topic
content: Portraits
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content: African Postcard Collection
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content: African Postcard Collection / Series 38: Senegal (SG)
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content: 1 Postcard (col., 14 x 9 cm.)
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content: [19--]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA SG-20-14
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content: Archival materials
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content: Postcards
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content: Postcards
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content: Text on front reads: "64. Afrique Occidentale (Sénégal). DAKAR. Une bonne nourrice. Collection Gautron, Dakar."
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content: Translated postcard caption reads, "64. West Africa (Senegal) - DAKAR. - A good nanny."
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content: Additional handwritten text on front reads, "Quand dis-tu, elles sont moches hein?"
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content: Translated handwritten text on front reads, "What do you think, aren't they ugly huh?"
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content: Additional handwritten text on verso reads, "Ouakam, le 1er-2-17. Mon cher Marcel, je suis arrivé le 25 à Dakar mais j'attendais d'être fixé pour t'écrire, le voyage s'est fait s'en encombre, nous sommes dans un poste à 7 kilomètres de Dakar, où nous attendons notre départ pour le Cameroun. Le 40ieme est dissous, la 4ieme Cie part au Zinder, la 2ieme passe au 4ieme Sénégalais et la 1ere et la 3ieme la mienne parte sans peur pour le Cameroun. Je crois que réellement j'ai chipée la bonne place. Je préfère aller dans la brousse surtout au Cameroun où tout est tranquille en ce moment. Dakar n'a rien d'intéressant. D'autre part tout y est très cher et tout le monde ... la brousse. Les femmes ont toute ou presque la vérole que ce soit blanches ou noires. Vivement que je sois dans un poste tranquille avec ma section. Je ne m'en ferais pas des banquiers, une petite et jeune m... qui m'allumera le porte plume de temps à autre et la nous tiendrons. Bonjour aux copains de ma part. J'écris à Mr. Oripeau et à Jane. Sincère et cordiale poignée de main."
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content: Translated handwritten text on verso reads, "Ouakam, February 1, 1917. My dear Marcel, I arrived on the 26th at Dakar but waited to be settled in to write to you, the journey was obstructed we are at a post 7 kilometers away from Dakar where we are awaiting our departure for Cameroon. the 40th has been dissolved, the 4th who leave for Zinder, the 2nd went over to the 4th Senegalese and the 1st and 3rd, mine, leaves without fear for Cameroon. I believe I really caught the right place. I prefer above all to go to the bush in Cameroon where everything is peaceful right now. Dakar has nothing interesting and besides that everything here is expensive and everyone is asking for the bush. The women all or almost all have the pox whether they are white or black. I wish I were in a quiet post with my section. I wouldn't worry, books and a small young deck boy to lay out my peholder from time to time and we'll hold on. Hello to the friends from me, I am writing to Mr. Orivean and to Jane. Sincere and cordial handshake."