Image / African men washing laundry, Pretoria, South Africa, ca. 1896-1911

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Title: African men washing laundry, Pretoria, South Africa, ca. 1896-1911
Creator: Borel, Arnold, 1871-1911
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896/1911
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: DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description: "La lessive du samedi" ("Saturday laundry") Photograph of two men of African origin washing laundry in Pretoria. In the background, a third man and a train.
Photographie de deux hommes d'origine africaine faisant la lessive à Pretoria. À l'arrière plan, un troisième homme et un train.
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
10.2 x 12.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m63644 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv090-043-600
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63644
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv090-043-600.jpg
Subject: Clothing
Railway transport
Trains
Urban areas
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1896/1911
Place: Africa
Pretoria
South Africa
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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