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Title
7. Military station in Bamenda with a Hausa village in the foreground
7. Militärstation Bamenda, im Vordergrund ein Dorf der Haussa
Creator
Basler Mission Trading Company, Duala, Cameroon (publisher / distributor)
Date Created and/or Issued
1912
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
All the images (photographic and non-photographic) made available in this collection are the property of the Basel Mission and are managed by mission 21. mission 21 / Basel Mission claim copyright on the images in their possession and require those publishing any of the images--both individuals and organisations--to pay a user's/copyright fee.
Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
info@bmarchives.org
mission21
mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+41 61 260 22 42), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Description
Annotation translation: "The Hausas are permanently on the move - the clever black merchants of Cameroon. They build themselves only very simple huts. They are very skilled in producing objects in leather or with bead decorations." "Vollbehr art postcards 'Cameroon'. " "Sales exclusively from the Basel Mission Bookshop, Duala, Cameroon."
Annotation: Die Haussa sind die stets herumziehenden, schlauen, schwarzen Kaufleute Kameruns. Sie bauen sich nur einfache Hütten. Sie sind im Anfertigen vom farbigem Leder und Perlarbeiten sehr geschickt." - "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".
Stamped: "-- Mai 1975."
Type
image
Format
print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD)
postcard, 8.8 x 13.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-m42798 [Legacy record ID]
impa-abmpix-25194
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m42798
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-abmpix-25194.jpg
Subject
Baby
Child care
Compound
Domestic scene
Entrance
Fence
Field
Group
Headgear
Landscape
Leather
Men's wear
Military station
Painting
Pot
Pounding
Roundhouse
Thatched roof
Trader m
Trading goods
Turban
Village view
Women's wear
Time Period
1912
Place
Bamenda
Hausa
Source
QQ-30.027.0064 [Reference number]
Relation
Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
QQ-30.027: untitled
impa-m15099; impa-m17566
mission 21 / Basel Mission

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