6 - Dahomey Le Roi Toffa dans son Palais de Porto-Novo
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: EEPA DM-15-09
label: General
content: Title source: Postcard caption.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Benin
label: Place
content: Benin -- Oueme -- Porto-Novo -- Royal Palace
topic: label: Topic
content: Leaders
label: Topic
content: Portraits -- Africa
setName: label: See more items in
content: African Postcard Collection
label: See more items in
content: African Postcard Collection / Series 4: Benin (Dahomey) (DM)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (collotype., hand colored, 14 x 9 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1908]
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 1985-144019
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 king Toffa, seated, wearing a tall hat. Printed text on recto reads: "6 - Dahomey - Le Roi Toffa dans son Palais de Porto Novo." Translated caption reads: [Dahomey - King Toffa in his palace at Porto-Novo.] Printed text on verso reads: "Carte Postale; La Correspondance au recto n'est pas acceptee par tous les pays etrangers; (Se renseigner a la Poste); Correspondance; Adresse." Two postmarks on verso, date reads: "15 MAI 08." Handwritten message and address on verso.