Interesting Photos of 1920s Nigeria Including Its Railways
Language: eng
Notes: Provisional cataloging from description supplied by vendor.

[Album with Thirty-Five Custom-Printed Real Photo Postcards and One Gelatin Silver Photo of Nigeria, Showing Nigerian Railway Locomotives, Tracks and Stations, Railway Headquarters in Ebute Metta, the Ocean Steamers’ Dock in Apapa with the “Boat Express” Waiting for Cargo and Passengers, Jebba Railway Bridge, Port Harcourt, Ebute Metta, and Ebute Ero neighbourhoods of Lagos, Portraits of Hausa and Nupe People, etc.].

Ca. 1920s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 25x29,5 cm). 30 card stock leaves (17 blank). With 35 real photo postcards (25 mounted and 10 loosely inserted) ca. 8,5x13,5 cm (3 ½ x 5 ½ in). About a dozen mounted photos with black marker captions on the mounts; most photos (both mounted and loosely inserted) with period pencil captions on verso. With a loosely inserted gelatin silver photo ca. 6,5x11 cm (2 ½ x 4 ¼ in). Period light brown linen album fastened with metal pins. Original paper label with a hand-written title “Snap shots of Nigeria” on the front board. Album cover with minor mild stains of edges, but overall a very good album with interesting strong images.