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Annotation translation: "Most of Cameroon's rivers become quickly unnavigable because of water-falls and rapids. So in Cameroon especially building railways is a condition of economic exploitation of the hinterland." "Vollbehr art postcards 'Cameroon'. " "Sales exclusively from the Basel Mission Bookshop, Duala, Cameroon." Annotation: "Die meisten Flüsse Kameruns sind unweit ihrer Mündung durch Fälle und Schnellen der Schiffahrt verschlossen, so dass gerade in Kamerun die weiteren Eisenbahnbauten die Vorbedingung für die wirtschaftliche Erschliessung des Innern bedeutet." - "Vollbehr-Künstlerpostkarten 'Kamerun'." - "Alleinvertrieb: Basler Missionshandlung, Duala (Kamerun)." Note: Vorlage: Aquarell von Ernst Vollbehr. - Von Prof. T. A. Freyvogel, Tropeninstitut Basel erhalten. Note translation: "Original: water-colour by Ernst Vollbehr".
Type
image
Format
print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 8.8 x 13.9 cm.
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